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Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize despite his continuation of the Iraq war and escalation of the US occupation of Afghanistan. Democracy Now! gets reaction from journalists and activists Naomi Klein and Tariq Ali.

Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is among the people aboard a ship boarded by Israeli forces near the Gaza Strip. The BBC is reporting that Israeli forces intercepted the ship carrying aid and activists in the Mediterranean Sea 23 miles off t

U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (photo) and 20 other human rights activists have been abducted by Israel from the ship `Spirit of Humanity` of the coast of Gaza. The mission was to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.

As NATO leaders gather for a summit in France, Chomsky says, “The obvious question is, why bother celebrating NATO at all? In fact, why does it exist?” Chomsky also analyzes the US escalation of the Afghan war and reacts to the new Israeli government.

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Pakistani British author Tariq Ali discusses the Pakistani government's reinstatement of dismissed Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry following massive public outcry as well as Obama's war in Afghanistan and the continued US occupation of Iraq.

Today marks the sixth anniversary of the killing of American peace activist Rachel Corrie by an Israeli military bulldozer in Rafah. She had been trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home near the border with Egypt when she was killed.

An American activist from Oakland, California, was critically injured Friday when Israeli soldiers fired a tear gas canister directly at his head at the close of a weekly nonviolent protest against the wall in the West Bank village of N'alin.

Anthropologist Roberto J. González discusses the work of social scientists, such as David Kilcullen, in supporting reckless counterinsurgency operations in Iraq that utilize imperial tactics like bribing "tribes," "divide and conquer," and indirect rule.

The world crisis of capitalist globalization has been fueling civil unrest in the form of massive protests, strikes, and riots across Europe. A photo essay of 22 pictures accompanies an good article by the Guardian's Europe editor Ian Traynor.

A new national nurses' union, the largest union of registered nurses in US history, is advocating for a single-payer national health insurance program. Amy Goodman speaks with Geri Jenkins, a registered nurse and co-president of the union.

"At the moment the strategy of the Obama administration, reflecting the demands of monopoly-finance capital, is to socialize the losses of the banks, making taxpayers pick up the tab, while avoiding as much as possible government ownership or control..."

The documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car?” explores the story behind the disappearance of GM's EV-1 electric car. Democracy Now! interviews the film’s director Chris Paine, and Chelsea Sexton, a former GM employee who worked on the EV-1.

Report attacks 'illegal' house demolitions and accuses Israel of weakening support for peace talks

More on Israel's Dahiya strategy. After a Palestinian rocket attack, Israel's Interior Minister urged, "the IDF should...decide on a neighborhood in Gaza and level it." The operational plan for Israel's war crimes and violations of human rights in Gaza.

The "Dahiya strategy": the Arab, Palestinian, and Iranian people must be held fully accountable, collectively punished, and have their countries destroyed for their leaders' acts. This is the "logic" behind Israel's bloody massacres of civilians in Gaza.

"This is about fundamental lawbreaking, about the disposal of the Constitution . . . So I think, actually, that Leahy’s current proposal is extremely dangerous. I call it the lame commission or basically an excuse for non-prosecution." -- Michael Ratner