What is true? What is false?

What is true? What is false? are questions to hold dear in these slippery times.

They begin Harold Pinter's acceptance speech as recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature.

The speech is a sustained moral critique of the atrocities in Iraq committed by the cabal running the United States, seen as the latest of a long list of such atrocities.

Pinter is too sick to go to Stockholm, so he delivers his speech via video.

The video and text of his speech can be seen here.

The speech is as well-crafted as his plays and delivered with an actor's dramatic effect. 

Pinter is dying, but, as this speech attests, he's still full of life and fight.

Pinter is a skilled artisan of words. Savour these before he's gone.

Where in the United States is this outrage?

Where in the United States' media are What is true? What is false? being asked?

Links
Michael Billington. Passionate Pinter's devastating assault on US foreign policy. Guardian Unlimited. December 8, 2005.

'The foremost representative of British drama'. Excerpts from the Swedish academy's citation awarding the 2005 Nobel prize for Literature to British playwright Harold Pinter. Guardian Unlimited. October 13, 2005.

Harold Pinter. Wikipedia.