Whether you life in the United States or anywhere else you probably can’t escape the mainstream news machinery bringing you the latest, too often one sided information about what is going on in American politics – and this of course is news that affects all of us in one way or another….

While the international edition of the BBC website is still my long time favorite for mainstream news, I more and more often find myself tuning in to the (on weekdays) daily Democracy Now! show: “A daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 700 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the U.S.” The news you get there might not be more uplifting than the one from the mainstream media, but at least you know that this is a show made by real people who really care about what is going on in their own country (and abroad) and who are not blinded by any government’s propaganda machine.

So if you are interested in American politics and want to know what those other political parties have to say (yes, there is really a quite active Green Party and they just nominated two women as candidates for the upcoming presidential elections) – if you want to see for yourself that there are critical and competent voices in the United States, representing an America that does not stand for oil, war, torture, wiretapping and corruption then tune in to Democracy Now! The first twelve minutes or so always offer a general news overview in case you don’t feel like watching the one hour program every day.

Real political change needs critical voices and Democracy Now! delivers just that.