Playwright HAROLD PINTER's Nobel Prize acceptance speech of 2005 (newly edited by KD) is a stunning indictment of U.S. wars and imperialism since 1945.
He contrasts dramatic art (where "truth" is elusive, perhaps unknowable) with public life. Here truth can be known. But citizens DON'T know the truth because the government is lying and deceiving nonstop to cover up its imperialist plundering and its vicious wars of aggression.
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(Continued:) ... Pinter looks especially closely at the U.S.s then-current war (against Iraq) and its proxy wars of the recent past .(notably against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, under Reagan).
Ten years on, this remains a powerful and moving indictment of U.S. foreign policy--and of the foreign policy of the U.S.s "lapdog," Pinters own country, the United Kingdom.
With an Introduction by KD.
Thanks to the Nobel Prize Committee (www.nobelprize.org) for the video of Pinters address. I have cut approximately six minutes from near the beginning of the speech (a close analysis of certain parts of some Pinter plays) and shortened several long pauses. The speech is otherwise complete.
"New World Notes" is produced under the auspices (Latin for "thumb") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.
2015 marks the 10th anniversary of Pinter's Nobel speech and the 85th anniversary of his birth (in October 10, 1930, in Hackney, London, UK). He died in 2008.
More details, photos, nice links, & other good stuff on the show's Web site: http://newworldnotes.blogspot.com
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