Why are so many so scared? Maybe it's our rulers' enormous Fear Machine. But there is reason for optimism, says Eduardo Galeano in this rare and charming interview. Find out just why Hugo Chavez gave President Obama Galeano's book. Galeano's stories reveal history while inspiring more.

Laura was on The Ed Show a few weeks ago and we got a few requests to make the clip available online, so here it is.

It's popular on the right wing radio dial to pretend that homosexuality is something happening in San Francisco and other big city enclaves, but this week's Got Doc is about the love, and hate, of small towns. When filmmaker Joe Wilson announced that he was going to marry another man, his small Pennsylvania hometown erupted.

A story from Galeano. The Origin of News Agencies Napoleon was crushed by the British at the Battle of Waterloo, south of Brussels. Field Marshall Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, took credit for the victory, but the true winner was the banker Nathan Rothschild, who did not fire a shot and was far from the scene.

With all the talk of change in recent months can video games change the world? Some designers think that they can at least have a positive impact. Games for Change is a collaborative project aimed at making video games with a social conscience. Their 6th annual Games for Change festival is this week.

Author, writer and activist Eduardo Galeano on the political moment, life, and literature. Can video games change the world? We'll talk to game designers who are making video games about issues like poverty, global warming, and the Middle East. And finally this weeks Got Docs.

Eric Massa of New York’s 29th District has been making the case for single payer healthcare. The advice he was given when he decided to run for congress was, "don’t do it." As a first year congressman he’s been advised not to take a stand, especially on a hot button issue like healthcare.

California's Supreme Court, in a decision yesterday, upheld Prop 8 and a ban on same sex marriage. At the same time, a host of states (Iowa, Vermont, and Maine) have legalized gay marriage in recent months. What's next for the LGBT movement? And should efforts to expand civil rights focus on battles in the states or at the Federal level?

Sam Husseini confronts former Secretary of State Colin Powell on what he know about the al-Libi case and whether evidence used as part of his presentation in front of the UN was based on torture. The video comes courtesy of The Washington Stakeout.

Roger McFarlane, at six foot six, was larger than life before the cowboy boots. A foul-mouthed Texan, ex-Broadway producer, and key player in the start up of ACT-UP! and later Director of the Gay Men's Health Crisis, two very important Aids activist organizations, McFarlane was in the front lines fighting for people with AIDS before then president Reagan would even say the disease's name out loud.