The paragraph below is from Information Clearing House, and it is an article by John Pilger about how our media just ignores certain stories that do not fit into the "story" or so-called "received wisdom" of our American and British culture. The story he cites below was also ignored in our country. Lately, we have been hearing all kinds of nonsense about how Iran is a threat. And we still are hearing stories about the number of people that Saddam put in mass graves with no supporting evidance given. We suffer from the "received wisdom" that the US bullets and bombs released in the world are there to do GOOD. And that we don't kill innocents, even though it happens all the time.
"Now consider the treatment of Harold Pinter, Britain's greatest living dramatist. In accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature last December, Harold Pinter made an epic speech. He asked why “the systematic brutality, the widespread atrocities, the ruthless suppression of independent thought” in Stalinist Russia were well known in the west while American state crimes were merely “superficially recorded, let alone documented, let alone acknowledged.” Across the world, he pointed out, the extinction and suffering of countless human beings could be attributed to rampant American power, “but you wouldn't know it”, he said. “it never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening, it wasn't happening. It didn't matter. It was of no interest.” For the BBC, Pinter's speech never happened. Not a word of it was broadcast. It never happened." –written by John Pilger
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