“There comes a time when silence is betrayal” – Martin Luther King, Jr

British playwright Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005. For me, his acceptance speech, delivered three years before he died in 2008, was an important glimpse into – and sort of a summary of — the innumerable documentable US war crimes that were facilitated by the multinational corporations, national security apparatus and military leaders that shaped American foreign policy since World War II. True patriots, if they really love their nations, must be honest about the dishonorable, dark side of their nation that the rest of the world, especially Pinter, sees so clearly.