Here is a powerful speech from British playwright, director, actor, and poet Harold Pinter. Over the years he has spoken out forcefully about the abuse of state power around the world, http://www.haroldpinter.org/

Harold Pinter's speech on receiving an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Turin.

"I am deeply honoured to receive this degree from such a great university.

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 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.. .

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