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> Pinter’s Provocation: Self Love in America

30 December 2005, 22:58

I think the article and your response are both equally confusing:

You can listen to a 10 minute interview with a Nobel spokesman at
http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/2005/announcement.html

In addition or otherwise for your perusal you may wish to contemplate these facts

When playwright Harold Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in October 2005, it produced anxiety within government circles in Britain. Pinter’s determined opposition to US and British foreign policy, and his resistance to the renewed imperialist carve-up of the globe centring on the war against Iraq, have brought attacks on him from many quarters. His fellow playwright David Hare noted that not a single party leader in Britain had congratulated Pinter on the award. This was hardly surprising, given the support the major parties in Britain gave to the US-led invasion of Iraq.
The Swedish Academy’s citation noted Pinter’s position as “the foremost representative of British drama in the second half of the 20th century,” and recognised that his opposition to imperialist war and his dedication to freedom of speech and democratic rights “can be seen as a development of the early Pinter’s analyzing of threat and injustice.”
In the last 15 years, particularly, Pinter has been a vocal and trenchant critic of militarism and war and the erosion of democratic rights. Pinter has remained defiantly “off-message,” championing critical independence from government propaganda.

With the great invasion of privacy, legal and illegal in both the US and UK I understand why he would be easily dismissed by the corporate media in particular.

cheers, Jt

Should you enjoy some philosophical speculation;

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil

These quotes are over a 100 years old but I think they reflect contemporary US foreign policy and "W" in particular.