Harold Pinter (1930-2008) on "Art, Truth and Politics" 1/2 on Democracy now 12/30/08

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Harold Pinter, the Nobel Prize-winning British playwright, screenwriter, poet, actor and political activist died last week at the age of seventy-eight after a prolonged battle with cancer. In his 2005 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Pinter excoriated US foreign policy. The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law, Pinter said. We play an excerpt from his speech. Read and listen: www.democracynow.org...