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Silenced: Documentary Movie Preview

Preview for documentary SILENCED, about four U.S. government whistleblowers on the war on terror.

Bugger the Bankers

A song for our times by The Austerity All Stars (Great Britain).

Hubris: Selling the Iraq War

The Bush administration saw the attacks of 9/11 as an opportunity to remove Saddam Hussein, connected to the attacks or not.

Tyranny and Texas

Jessica Williams meets Texas residents tired of living under the jackboot of a democratically elected government.

Chuck Hagel's Secretary of Defense senatorial hearing gets confusing when he is grilled on past Israel comments.

Scientists find that a tiny, furry-tailed creature was the earliest ancestor of placental mammals. For more, visit Morphobank.

Florida Senator Marco Rubio gets cotton mouth and ducks off camera during the biggest speech of his life.

How does the Super Bowl define what it means to be an American? These ads present dueling ideas and ideals.

By number of viewers, the Super Bowl is a cross section of America. From the faces in the ads, not always. The first video below challenges us to rethink who we are as a nation. It ran as a Super Bowl ad -- in a few select markets. The second video never ran as a Super Bowl ad, but it does fix some things that a Super Bowl ad that ran nationwide (third video) got wrong. See if you can spot the difference. And then help to spread this discussion by emailing, tweeting and sharing these videos, using the links below. -- video moderator  

"Aspiring Americans" is an ad that played during the 2013 Super Bowl on broadcast and cable television in a few select markets. 

We saw Dodge's "God Made A Farmer" ad and we thought it didn't reflect the whole picture. So we gave it a bit of a fix.

'Farmer' Super Bowl ad sponsored by Dodge.