Articles by Harold Pinter
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Harold Pinter’s Acceptance of Nobel Literature 2005
Harold Pinter, Nobel Literature Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
Art, Truth & Politics: The truth is to do with how the US understands its role in the world and how it chooses to embody it. I believe it is obligatory upon us some kind of scrutiny. [TMS republishes Pinter’s speech due to its relevance and immediacy in 2023.]
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Nobel Literature 2005 Acceptance Speech by Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter, Nobel Literature Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law. The invasion was an arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public; an act intended to consolidate American military and economic control of the Middle East masquerading – as a last resort – all other justifications having failed to justify themselves – as liberation. A formidable assertion of military force responsible for the death and mutilation of thousands and thousands of innocent people.
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Harold Pinter, Nobel Literature Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
The justification for the invasion of Iraq was that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. We were told that Iraq had a relationship with Al Qaeda and shared responsibility for 9/11. We were told that Iraq threatened the security of the world. None of it was true. We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it ‘bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East’.
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Harold Pinter, Nobel Literature Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2017
Where was the dead body found?
Who found the dead body?
Was the dead body dead when found?
How was the dead body found?
Harold Pinter’s Nobel Acceptance Speech: Art, Truth & Politics
Harold Pinter, Nobel Literature Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
The justification for the invasion of Iraq was that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. We were told that Iraq had a relationship with Al Qaeda and shared responsibility for 9/11. We were told that Iraq threatened the security of the world. None of it was true. We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it ‘bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East’.
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Harold Pinter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2010
Harold Pinter’s Nobel Lecture was pre-recorded, and shown on video on 7 December 2005, in Börssalen at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm.
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Harold Pinter – Literature Nobel Prize 2005,
26 Dec 2008
British playwright and anti-war activist Harold Pinter died at the age of 78 on Wednesday Dec 24, 2008 from liver cancer. He wrote 32 plays, 24 screenplays and several volumes of poetry. I have said earlier that the United States is now totally frank about putting its cards on the table. That is the case. […]
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Harold Pinter, John Pilger, Tony Benn,
30 Sep 2008
On September 10 President Evo Morales of Bolivia declared the US ambassador persona non grata. On September 11 (the 35th anniversary of the military overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile) the president of Venezuela asked the US ambassador there to leave the country. President Hugo Chávez believed he was facing the possibility of an imminent […]
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