Monday, December 12, 2005

Harold Pinter: Art, Truth and Politics













Harold Pinter's Nobel Prize in Literature 2005 acceptance speech: an ill man not far from death. English playwright and theatre director, Pinter speaks his mind. Or some of it. To watch video and/or read the text: Nobel
Some way into his speech, Pinter talks about torture. That same week, Condoleezza Rice was flying from one European capital to another, saying: "We don't do torture."
Uhhhm... School of the Americas? Fort Benning, Georgia? It's as American as apple pie. For a refresher course, Naomi Klein in the The Guardian

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