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Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Hedrick Smith leads viewers into the shadows of American government, casting light on the influence of mainstream media and the lobbies, the power showdowns between the White House and Congress, and how their colliding agendas often produce gridlock.

A documentary chronicling the struggle for women's rights in Post-Taliban Afghanistan. Award-winning journalist and UNICEF representative Sally Armstrong witnesses heroic women fighting for the cause, and the powerful forces that threaten their freedom.

With a distinctive style of rock n' roll that has made him one of the biggest rock stars of all time, The Boss is back on his 16th studio album. Features the single Working on a Dream, which was popularized by its inclusion in Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

The ninth studio album by country singer Tim McGraw, featuring sixteen songs, including "Live Like You Were Dying," "My Old Friend," "Drugs or Jesus," and "Back When."

White Blood Cells took the White Stripes from underground favorite to mainstream sensation. The band stays true to it's minimal sound on rock hits like Fell In Love With a Girl, Hotel Yorba, Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground, and more.

The "top undercover journalist in America and the funniest" (Randi Rhodes, Air America), hangs out the dirty underpants of the "armed and dangerous clowns that rule us." Feared from corporate suites to Osama's cave, Palast's old-style gumshoe detective work to dig out the info on the War on Terror, greed-dripping schemes to seize little nations with lots of oil, the hidden program to steal the 2008 election, and the media biases that keep it unreported...

Presents a detailed scrutiny of the "quality" print press and leading corporate media in the last decade, detailing a disastrous sequence of misrepresentation, suppression, ignorance, and willful embrace of the government's agenda. These essays trace the impending disintegration of what is now "old media"--The traditional and now potentially tainted sources of our daily news-and looks toward the emergence of an entirely new landscape of mass communications:...

A chronicle which provides a rare window into the international perception of the Iraq War, courtesy of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet. Criticized by Cabinet members and Pentagon officials for reporting with a pro-Iraqi bias, and strongly condemned for frequently airing civilian casualties as well as footage of American POW's, the station has revealed (and continues to show the world) everything about the Iraq War that the Bush...

'These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world,' said Charlie Wilson of America's role in supporting the mujahideen against the Soviet Union. 'And then we fucked up the endgame.' The scandal-prone US Congressman lamented the absence of support for Afghanistan after that war, a vacuum which the Taliban and Osama bin Laden would fill. The Ledger identifies and assesses the failures of the West's approach to Afghanistan after 9/11...