Democracy Now är ett progressivt amerikanskt nyhetsprogram som led av Amy Goodman och som sänds fem dagar i veckan.

Orsaken till att jag sänder det här på bloggen är att det ger en inblick i den kritiska inställning som miljoner amerikaner har till sin egen regering.

Det här är ett tecken på att USA fortfarande åtnjuter yttrandefrihet men också att det faktiskt finns en frän debatt om de flesta frågor här i landet.

Här är dagens löpsedlar: Här är löpsedlarna för den 8/10/2007

- Iraq Accuses Blackwater of “Deliberate Murder”
-Blackwater Hires PR Firm Connected To Hillary Clinton
- Gen. Petraeus Steps Up Accusations Against Iran
- 1,000 Iraqis March Against U.S.-Built Wall In Baghdad
- Suicide Bomb Kills Five on Sixth Anniversary of Afghanistan Invasion
- World War II Interrogators Criticize U.S. Interrogation Practices
- Off Duty Sheriff’s Deputy in Wisconsin Kills Six
- 83 Arrested at Columbus Day Protest in Denver

Amy Goodman har också en intressant intervju med Akiva Eldar från den israeliska tidningen Ha’aretz som diskuterar skillnaden mellan USA:s judiska befolkning och israelerna om en möjlig framtida fred med Palestinierna: Israeli Columnist Akiva Eldar on Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East, Iran, Military Censorship in Israel and the Influence of the Israel Lobby in the United States

Precis som i Sverige så är Israels försvarareí USA betydligt mer extrema och blodtörstiga än den israeliska befolkningen.

AKIVA ELDAR: They are a very important instrument in order to pursue Israel’s policy, but I’m afraid that they’re a little bit behind the Israeli government and the Israeli people. We are in a different mode, which I think takes time for the American Jewish organizations to digest, the fact that we don’t want to keep those territories. And probably the Israeli propaganda was so efficient that it’s very hard now to change the mode and to convince them that it’s a different era now. It’s a different government. We have seventy out of 120 members of the Knesset who support a two-state solution based on the ’67 lines.

And, you know, if for forty years, you tell the Jewish community that Israel cannot afford to give up the territories, they are important for Israel’s security, just overnight to tell, “Sorry, we were wrong. Now, we don’t need those territories,” it’s probably — I remember, you know, those groups that were taken to the Golan Heights, for instance, we didn’t mention Syria, but the Golan Heights, we told them we can’t live without it, because look at the geography or topography, with us sitting there, and they were shelling the Kibbutzim down there, and now, after all this time that they spend going to Capitol Hill and using their leverage to convince the American people not to put any pressure on Israel to give up the Golan Heights, now all of a sudden the Syrians are the good guys and we can get down to business with them? It’s very difficult. I think that we are paying the price of having our PR doing a very good job for many years.