@syn
Several earlier posters refered to the so-called liberal bias of U.S. media. The fact that the sort of opinion I expressed earlier about the hyper-militarism of America and its transparently imperial status strikes you as “hysterically paranoid rantings” illustrates just how conservative your media are. Voices left of what is the centre in any other post-industrial nation are systematically silenced by U.S. corporate media, given no space for expression or serious consideration. For Americans reading this note, do you realise that at least 70 percent of your post-1945 taxes have been spent on world domination? Do you know why Hawaii and Alaska were made U.S. states? Why Americans work longer hours with half or less the amount of holiday time than any other Western workforce? Why you have the most inequitable distribution of wealth than any other OECD country? Why less of the nation’s wealth is devoted to matters of social equity, fariness and justice? Why your society is so afflicted by lawyers and lawsuits? Why your working class so completely identifies with the ideology of the wealthy few against their own interests? Why so few of you have even formed, to say nothing of contemplated, these sorts of questions?
