In his acceptance of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature, Harold Pinter referred to „a vast tapestry of lies, upon which we feed“. He asked why „the systematic brutality, the widespread atrocities“ of the Soviet Union were well known in the West while America‘s crimes were „superficially recorded, let alone documented, let alone acknowledged“. The most enduring silence of the modern era covered the extinction and dispossession of countless human beings by a rampant America and its agents. „But you wouldn‘t know it,“ said Pinter. „It never happened. Even while it was happening it never happened. It didn‘t matter. It was of no interest.“