US critic Harold Pinter wins Nobel literature prize
PINTER: THE AMERICAN ADMINISTRATION IS A BLOODTHIRSTY WILD ANIMAL!
by Henk Ruyssenaars - former Stockholm correspondent.
FPF - Oct. 13th - 2005 - The Nobel Committee in the Swedish capital Stockholm officially confirmed that British playwright Harold Pinter has been chosen to receive the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature, a gesture by most outside of the US management seen as a fierce condemnation of the present genocidal actions by Washington. Pinter's sharp criticism however is not expected to be seen nor heard in our mainstream media. A sample of his writing is given below.
Last Oct. 7th, the Norwegian Peace Prize Committee from Oslo slapped the Washington neocons in the face by awarding the Peace Prize to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the by them despised Director General, Mohamed ElBaradei - who keeps saying that according to their daily controls Iran has NO nuclear weapons program. [FPF: IAEA-Iran - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/c2g2q]
Now it's the turn of the Swedish Nobel Committee to show the neocons how and what people think about them, and - also at the suggestion of earlier Nobel Prize Laureates - the committee thus has chosen the 'US neocon bashing' and world famous playwright Pinter, who gets the Nobel prize for Literature.
Pinter, who turned 75 last Monday, was honored because he "in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms," the Swedish Academy said in a release announcing the prize. "In fact, the continuity of his work is remarkable," the academy release said, "and his political themes can be seen as a development of the early Pinter's analyzing of threat and injustice."
Pinter will receive the Nobel Prize out of the hands of King carl Gustav of Sweden on Dec. 10, in the usual ceremonies in Stockholm.
The Nobel award also includes a $1.3 million cash prize, and just to remember how this famous jewish writer observes developments, here's a story on our present time's depressing detoriation.
The article at once disappeared in the mainstream's 'Memory Hole', but was first published in ZNet* in December 2002, and in it Harold Pinter warns for the global US War OF Terror, and what he sees:
THE AMERICAN ADMINISTRATION IS A BLOODTHIRSTY WILD ANIMAL
December 2002 - Pinter: "Earlier this year, I had a major operation for cancer. The operation and its after effects were something of a nightmare. I felt I was a man unable to swim bobbing about under water in a deep dark endless ocean. But I did not drown and I am very glad to be alive.
However, I found that to emerge from a personal nightmare was to enter an infinitely more pervasive public nightmare - the nightmare of American hysteria, ignorance, arrogance, stupidity and belligerence; the most powerful nation the world has ever known effectively waging war against the rest of the world.
"If you are not with us, you are against us," President George W. Bush has said. He has also said: "We will not allow the world's worst weapons to remain in the hands of the world's worst leaders." Quite right. Look in the mirror, chum. That's you.
America is at this moment developing advanced systems of "weapons of mass destruction" and is prepared to use them where it sees fit. It has more of them than the rest of the world put together. It has walked away from international agreements on biological and chemical weapons, refusing to allow inspection of its own factories. The hypocrisy behind its public declarations and its own actions is almost a joke.
America believes that the 3,000 deaths in New York are the only deaths that count, the only deaths that matter. They are American deaths. Other deaths are unreal, abstract, of no consequence.*
The 3,000 deaths in Afghanistan are never referred to. The hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children dead through American and British sanctions which have deprived them of essential medicines are never referred to.*
The effect of depleted uranium, used by America in the Gulf war, is never referred to. Radiation levels in Iraq are appallingly high. Babies are born with no brain, no eyes, no genitals. Where they do have ears, mouths or rectums, all that issues from these orifices is blood. - [FPF-DU-Url.: http://tinyurl.com/awra3]
The 200,000 deaths in East Timor in 1975 brought about by the Indonesian government but inspired and supported by America are never referred to. The 500,000 deaths in Guatemala, Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Argentina and Haiti, in actions supported and subsidized by America, are never referred to.
The millions of deaths in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia are no longer referred to. [FPF-Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5t9j7] - The desperate plight of the Palestinian people, the central factor in world unrest, is hardly referred to.
BUT WHAT A MISJUDGMENT OF THE PRESENT AND WHAT A MISREADING OF HISTORY THIS IS.
People do not forget. They do not forget the death of their fellows, they do not forget torture and mutilation, they do not forget injustice, they do not forget oppression, they do not forget the terrorism of mighty powers. They not only don't forget: they also strike back.
The atrocity in New York was predictable and inevitable. It was an act of retaliation against constant and systematic manifestations of state terrorism on the part of America over many years, in all parts of the world.
In Britain, the public is now being warned to be "vigilant" in preparation for potential terrorist acts. The language is in itself preposterous. How will - or can - public vigilance be embodied? Wearing a scarf over your mouth to keep out poison gas?
However, terrorist attacks are quite likely, the inevitable result of our Prime Minister's contemptible and shameful subservience to America. Apparently a terrorist poison gas attack on the London Underground system was recently prevented.
But such an act may indeed take place. Thousands of schoolchildren travel on the Underground every day. If there is a poison gas attack from which they die, the responsibility will rest entirely on the shoulders of our Prime Minister. [FPF-Boost Blair - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/b4fex ] - Needless to say, the Prime Minister does not travel on the Underground himself.
The [planned] war against Iraq is in fact a plan for premeditated murder of thousands of civilians* in order, apparently, to rescue them from their dictator.
AMERICA AND BRITAIN ARE PURSUING A COURSE THAT CAN LEAD ONLY TO AN ESCALATION OF VIOLENCE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND FINALLY TO CATASTROPHE.
It is obvious, however, that America is bursting at the seams to attack Iraq. I believe that it will do this not only to take control of Iraqi oil, but also because the American administration is now a bloodthirsty wild animal. Bombs are its only vocabulary.
MANY AMERICANS, WE KNOW, ARE HORRIFIED BY THE POSTURE OF THEIR GOVERNMENT, BUT SEEM TO BE HELPLESS.
UNLESS EUROPE FINDS THE SOLIDARITY, INTELLIGENCE, COURAGE AND WILL TO CHALLENGE AND RESIST AMERICAN POWER, EUROPE ITSELF WILL DESERVE ALEXANDER HERZEN'S DECLARATION:
"WE ARE NOT THE DOCTORS. WE ARE THE DISEASE".
The article is taken from an address given by Harold Pinter on receiving an honorary degree at the University of Turin.
[end item] - Story at ZNet - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cnuef
Latest Google - News on Harold Pinter & Nobel prize - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/b7mj3
FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
Editor : Henk Ruyssenaars
http://tinyurl.com/66dmo
The Netherlands
FPF@Chello.nl
MAIN$TREAM MEDIA MAKE MORONS!
The - very related - links below proff it:
* *The Dutch author this far has worked abroad for international media for more than 4 decades, as a fully independent foreign correspondent, of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East. Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism.
* The Nuremberg principles: "Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefor and liable to punishment." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/byurp
* 'The war in Iraq is illegal' - BBC: video & text-interview of the United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan - Url.:http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v
* The leaked 'Downing Street Memos' expose the criminal lies by war criminals like Bush, Blair, Berlusconi(It.) Balkenende(NL) - their collaborating media and other malignant ilk - Url.: http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/
* MSNBC - Poll: Ninety-four (94) percent believes that George Bush and the neocon media mislead the nation to go to war with Iraq - Url.: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8248969/
* ''The Lancet'' and the ''Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health'' report: ''Over 100.000 killed in the illegal Iraq war''-Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5gys7
* Bush interview. ABC: No WMD's but many killed: "It was worth it" - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6bal9
* Former Secr. of State Madeleine Albright in her comment on half a million dead children in Iraq: "We think it's worth it" On CBS 60' Minutes - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/2vmc8
* BBC: The must-see three-part Documentary, "The Power of Nightmares," puts it bluntly: "Al-Qaeda is a (neocon) myth." - See Url.: http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1327904,00.html
* Wayne Madsen: ''What has Israel to do with 9/11?'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/bj754 - 'American neocons' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/b5vsb - The US Federal Reserve and the private banks owning it - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/d3ntq
* Are their Corporate News Media Incompetent, Criminally Negligent or Complicit? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cqpfe
* Brainwashed? - Take the free 'Gullibility Factor' test to find out if you're really a mind slave, or not - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cbgnc
* Colin Powell: 'It is not anti-Semitic to criticize the policies of the state of Israel' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/22p6c -
* American car magnate Henry Ford investigated 85 years ago the global problem - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/2xz35
* Help all the troops of whatever nationality to come back from abroad! We need them badly at home in many countries - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE PAID FOR BY TAXES - to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
* The World Can't Wait! - Drive out the neocons and their 'Bush Regime' - Mobilize for November 2, 2005! - Url.: http://www.worldcantwait.org/
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by Henk Ruyssenaars - former Stockholm correspondent.
FPF - Oct. 13th - 2005 - The Nobel Committee in the Swedish capital Stockholm officially confirmed that British playwright Harold Pinter has been chosen to receive the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature, a gesture by most outside of the US management seen as a fierce condemnation of the present genocidal actions by Washington. Pinter's sharp criticism however is not expected to be seen nor heard in our mainstream media. A sample of his writing is given below.
Last Oct. 7th, the Norwegian Peace Prize Committee from Oslo slapped the Washington neocons in the face by awarding the Peace Prize to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the by them despised Director General, Mohamed ElBaradei - who keeps saying that according to their daily controls Iran has NO nuclear weapons program. [FPF: IAEA-Iran - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/c2g2q]
Now it's the turn of the Swedish Nobel Committee to show the neocons how and what people think about them, and - also at the suggestion of earlier Nobel Prize Laureates - the committee thus has chosen the 'US neocon bashing' and world famous playwright Pinter, who gets the Nobel prize for Literature.
Pinter, who turned 75 last Monday, was honored because he "in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms," the Swedish Academy said in a release announcing the prize. "In fact, the continuity of his work is remarkable," the academy release said, "and his political themes can be seen as a development of the early Pinter's analyzing of threat and injustice."
Pinter will receive the Nobel Prize out of the hands of King carl Gustav of Sweden on Dec. 10, in the usual ceremonies in Stockholm.
The Nobel award also includes a $1.3 million cash prize, and just to remember how this famous jewish writer observes developments, here's a story on our present time's depressing detoriation.
The article at once disappeared in the mainstream's 'Memory Hole', but was first published in ZNet* in December 2002, and in it Harold Pinter warns for the global US War OF Terror, and what he sees:
THE AMERICAN ADMINISTRATION IS A BLOODTHIRSTY WILD ANIMAL
December 2002 - Pinter: "Earlier this year, I had a major operation for cancer. The operation and its after effects were something of a nightmare. I felt I was a man unable to swim bobbing about under water in a deep dark endless ocean. But I did not drown and I am very glad to be alive.
However, I found that to emerge from a personal nightmare was to enter an infinitely more pervasive public nightmare - the nightmare of American hysteria, ignorance, arrogance, stupidity and belligerence; the most powerful nation the world has ever known effectively waging war against the rest of the world.
"If you are not with us, you are against us," President George W. Bush has said. He has also said: "We will not allow the world's worst weapons to remain in the hands of the world's worst leaders." Quite right. Look in the mirror, chum. That's you.
America is at this moment developing advanced systems of "weapons of mass destruction" and is prepared to use them where it sees fit. It has more of them than the rest of the world put together. It has walked away from international agreements on biological and chemical weapons, refusing to allow inspection of its own factories. The hypocrisy behind its public declarations and its own actions is almost a joke.
America believes that the 3,000 deaths in New York are the only deaths that count, the only deaths that matter. They are American deaths. Other deaths are unreal, abstract, of no consequence.*
The 3,000 deaths in Afghanistan are never referred to. The hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children dead through American and British sanctions which have deprived them of essential medicines are never referred to.*
The effect of depleted uranium, used by America in the Gulf war, is never referred to. Radiation levels in Iraq are appallingly high. Babies are born with no brain, no eyes, no genitals. Where they do have ears, mouths or rectums, all that issues from these orifices is blood. - [FPF-DU-Url.: http://tinyurl.com/awra3]
The 200,000 deaths in East Timor in 1975 brought about by the Indonesian government but inspired and supported by America are never referred to. The 500,000 deaths in Guatemala, Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Argentina and Haiti, in actions supported and subsidized by America, are never referred to.
The millions of deaths in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia are no longer referred to. [FPF-Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5t9j7] - The desperate plight of the Palestinian people, the central factor in world unrest, is hardly referred to.
BUT WHAT A MISJUDGMENT OF THE PRESENT AND WHAT A MISREADING OF HISTORY THIS IS.
People do not forget. They do not forget the death of their fellows, they do not forget torture and mutilation, they do not forget injustice, they do not forget oppression, they do not forget the terrorism of mighty powers. They not only don't forget: they also strike back.
The atrocity in New York was predictable and inevitable. It was an act of retaliation against constant and systematic manifestations of state terrorism on the part of America over many years, in all parts of the world.
In Britain, the public is now being warned to be "vigilant" in preparation for potential terrorist acts. The language is in itself preposterous. How will - or can - public vigilance be embodied? Wearing a scarf over your mouth to keep out poison gas?
However, terrorist attacks are quite likely, the inevitable result of our Prime Minister's contemptible and shameful subservience to America. Apparently a terrorist poison gas attack on the London Underground system was recently prevented.
But such an act may indeed take place. Thousands of schoolchildren travel on the Underground every day. If there is a poison gas attack from which they die, the responsibility will rest entirely on the shoulders of our Prime Minister. [FPF-Boost Blair - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/b4fex ] - Needless to say, the Prime Minister does not travel on the Underground himself.
The [planned] war against Iraq is in fact a plan for premeditated murder of thousands of civilians* in order, apparently, to rescue them from their dictator.
AMERICA AND BRITAIN ARE PURSUING A COURSE THAT CAN LEAD ONLY TO AN ESCALATION OF VIOLENCE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND FINALLY TO CATASTROPHE.
It is obvious, however, that America is bursting at the seams to attack Iraq. I believe that it will do this not only to take control of Iraqi oil, but also because the American administration is now a bloodthirsty wild animal. Bombs are its only vocabulary.
MANY AMERICANS, WE KNOW, ARE HORRIFIED BY THE POSTURE OF THEIR GOVERNMENT, BUT SEEM TO BE HELPLESS.
UNLESS EUROPE FINDS THE SOLIDARITY, INTELLIGENCE, COURAGE AND WILL TO CHALLENGE AND RESIST AMERICAN POWER, EUROPE ITSELF WILL DESERVE ALEXANDER HERZEN'S DECLARATION:
"WE ARE NOT THE DOCTORS. WE ARE THE DISEASE".
The article is taken from an address given by Harold Pinter on receiving an honorary degree at the University of Turin.
[end item] - Story at ZNet - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cnuef
Latest Google - News on Harold Pinter & Nobel prize - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/b7mj3
FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
Editor : Henk Ruyssenaars
http://tinyurl.com/66dmo
The Netherlands
FPF@Chello.nl
MAIN$TREAM MEDIA MAKE MORONS!
The - very related - links below proff it:
* *The Dutch author this far has worked abroad for international media for more than 4 decades, as a fully independent foreign correspondent, of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East. Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism.
* The Nuremberg principles: "Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefor and liable to punishment." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/byurp
* 'The war in Iraq is illegal' - BBC: video & text-interview of the United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan - Url.:http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v
* The leaked 'Downing Street Memos' expose the criminal lies by war criminals like Bush, Blair, Berlusconi(It.) Balkenende(NL) - their collaborating media and other malignant ilk - Url.: http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/
* MSNBC - Poll: Ninety-four (94) percent believes that George Bush and the neocon media mislead the nation to go to war with Iraq - Url.: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8248969/
* ''The Lancet'' and the ''Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health'' report: ''Over 100.000 killed in the illegal Iraq war''-Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5gys7
* Bush interview. ABC: No WMD's but many killed: "It was worth it" - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6bal9
* Former Secr. of State Madeleine Albright in her comment on half a million dead children in Iraq: "We think it's worth it" On CBS 60' Minutes - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/2vmc8
* BBC: The must-see three-part Documentary, "The Power of Nightmares," puts it bluntly: "Al-Qaeda is a (neocon) myth." - See Url.: http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1327904,00.html
* Wayne Madsen: ''What has Israel to do with 9/11?'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/bj754 - 'American neocons' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/b5vsb - The US Federal Reserve and the private banks owning it - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/d3ntq
* Are their Corporate News Media Incompetent, Criminally Negligent or Complicit? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cqpfe
* Brainwashed? - Take the free 'Gullibility Factor' test to find out if you're really a mind slave, or not - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cbgnc
* Colin Powell: 'It is not anti-Semitic to criticize the policies of the state of Israel' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/22p6c -
* American car magnate Henry Ford investigated 85 years ago the global problem - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/2xz35
* Help all the troops of whatever nationality to come back from abroad! We need them badly at home in many countries - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE PAID FOR BY TAXES - to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
* The World Can't Wait! - Drive out the neocons and their 'Bush Regime' - Mobilize for November 2, 2005! - Url.: http://www.worldcantwait.org/
FPF-COPYRIGHT NOTICE - In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107 - any copyrighted work in this message is distributed by the Foreign Press Foundation under fair use, without profit or payment, to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the information. Url.: http://liimirror.warwick.ac.uk/uscode/17/107.html
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