"It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening, it wasn't happening. It didn't matter. It was of no interest." In a few sharp sentences, Pinter pinned down the willed indifference of the media to publicly recorded events.Passionate Pinter's Devastating Assault on US Foreign PolicyShades of Beckett as ailing playwright delivers powerful Nobel … [Read more...] about Harold Pinter on U.S. Atrocities
Art, Truth and Politics by Harold Pinter
Published on Thursday, December 8, 2005 by the GuardianIn 1958 I wrote the following:'There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.'I believe that these assertions still make sense and do still apply to the exploration of … [Read more...] about Art, Truth and Politics by Harold Pinter
Japan’s Peace Constitution/映画 日本国憲法
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Japanese Americans and the Making of U.S. Democracy During World War II
by Gary Y. Okihirofrom JAPAN FOCUS https://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=17&ItemID=9111This is an introduction to two Office of War Information propaganda films on Japanese Internment.https://ia200131.eu.archive.org/3/movies/Japanese1943/Japanese1943.mpg https://ia200114.eu.archive.org/0/movies/Challeng1944/Challeng1944.mpgUpon viewing once again … [Read more...] about Japanese Americans and the Making of U.S. Democracy During World War II
Okinawa and the Revamped US-Japan Alliance
From Japan Focus https://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=17&ItemID=9132George and Junichiro, two great buddies (if the Japanese media is to be believed) meet again, on 15 and 16 November, in Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto. Since Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro is one of the dwindling band of ever-faithful Bush supporters, and since officials on both … [Read more...] about Okinawa and the Revamped US-Japan Alliance