<bq source="Antiwar.com" author="Harold Pinter" caption="Acceptance Speech for the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature">Why is the systematic brutality, the widespread atrocities, the ruthless suppression of independent thought of Stalinist Russia well known in the West while American criminal actions never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it never happened. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest.</bq> <hr> <n>Cited from the article <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/pilger/2009/11/06/breaking-the-australian-silence/" source="Antiwar.com" author="John Pilger">Breaking the Australian Silence</a></n>