They need a bit of a laugh to keep their spirits up. Pinter was one of the writers who ACTUALLY felt a responsibility in the world and stood against political cruelties, even in his last years and in a Noble Prize for literature he talks more about politics than literature. Ed.’s note: The following speech was delivered by Harold Pinter in December of 2005, upon his acceptance of the Nobel Prize in Literature. When we look into a mirror we think the image that confronts us is accurate. Nor can I ever sum up my plays, except to say that this is what happened. So language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you, the author, at any time. These people are of no moment. The Nicaraguan people, led by the Sandinistas, overthrew this regime in 1979, a breathtaking popular revolution. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis. Come and see the blood All this has been fully documented and verified. Spain emerges Hundreds of thousands of poverty-stricken peasants were brought back from the dead. Everyone knows what happened in the Soviet Union and throughout Eastern Europe during the post-war period: the systematic brutality, the widespread atrocities, the ruthless suppression of independent thought. The first line of The Homecoming is ‘What have you done with the scissors?’ The first line of Old Times is ‘Dark.’. It puts its cards on the table without fear or favour. the blood in the streets. More often than not you stumble upon the truth in the dark, colliding with it or just glimpsing an image or a shape which seems to correspond to the truth, often without realising that you have done so. The United States Congress was about to decide whether to give more money to the Contras in their campaign against the state of Nicaragua.

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‘Fat or thin?’ the man asks. Its official declared policy is now defined as ‘full spectrum dominance’. It’s called If this is paradise why are we still driving? The United States had brought down the democratically elected government of Guatemala in 1954 and it is estimated that over 200,000 people had been victims of successive military dictatorships. It no longer sees any point in being reticent or even devious. Come and see the blood in the streets. I want to ask you something. What is false?

We have lived in peace. The casinos moved back into the country. (English HTML version.) In each case I found myself compelled to pursue the matter. Was the dead body naked or dressed for a journey? We were told that Iraq had a relationship with Al Qaeda and shared responsibility for the atrocity in New York of September 11th 2001. But as I have said, the search for the truth can never stop. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005 was awarded to Harold Pinter "who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms". The 2,000 American dead are an embarrassment. There are many. Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. What surrounds us therefore is a vast tapestry of lies, upon which we feed.”, “When we look into a mirror we think the image that confronts us is accurate. devouring human beings Harold Pinter’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, where he vehemently criticizes the post World War II foreign policy of the US.

God is great.

It also has its own bleating little lamb tagging behind it on a lead, the pathetic and supine Great Britain. I put to you that the United States is without doubt the greatest show on the road.

Who, I wonder, are they aiming at? And are they in all cases attributable to US foreign policy? What does the media say about them?
The words ‘the American people’ provide a truly voluptuous cushion of reassurance. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed.

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Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. No priests were ever murdered in Nicaragua. You certainly can’t dictate to them. the bull’s eye of your hearts. And political satire, of course, adheres to none of these precepts, in fact does precisely the opposite, which is its proper function. Did we ever have any? When the populace has been subdued – or beaten to death – the same thing – and your own friends, the military and the great corporations, sit comfortably in power, you go before the camera and say that democracy has prevailed. But move a millimetre and the image changes. The totalitarian dungeons were actually next door, in El Salvador and Guatemala.

But, as I told myself at the time, our beginnings never know our ends. It never happened. It quite simply doesn’t give a damn about the United Nations, international law or critical dissent, which it regards as impotent and irrelevant. Hypocritical and arrogant when it came to politics, but a very thought-provoking speech nevertheless. Did they take place? It’s a winner. Bandits with planes and Moors,

I am not a barbarian. That is what they said. The horror the United States inflicted upon Chile in 1973 can never be purged and can never be forgiven. I possess moral authority. As we were leaving the Embassy a US aide told me that he enjoyed my plays.

He also states his political stance against the US. The truth is something entirely different. I cannot say.

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