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GRITtv: Got Docs: Sweet Crude

Oil wasn't discovered in the Niger Delta until the near end of colonial rule. But its discovery, for the people of Nigeria, meant another kind of oppression: money working hand in hand with military rule. This week's featured documentary, Sweet Crude, looks at the consequences of oil extraction for the people and environment of Nigeria.

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GRITtv: Jay Smooth: Lyricism and Capitalism

The always lyrical Jay Smooth weighs in on what rappers think is profitable these days, and how not being lyrical is "the subprime mortgage of hip-hop."

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GRITtv: Free Speech is for People

The Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission will allow unprecedented corporate money to influence United States elections -- essentially giving corporations free speech rights.

GRITtv: Move Your Money

The film It's a Wonderful Life is a holiday tradition. But in this video from Eugene Jarecki and the Huffington Post, it becomes more than that -- it becomes an inspiration for change. Small community banks keep money flowing to small businesses and individuals while large banks took government bailouts and continue to pay CEOs and lobbyists ridiculous salaries to maintain the status quo. Angry about the bailouts? Take a cue from It's a Wonderful Life and move your money into a community bank.

GRITtv: The Secret Global Empire(s): Russ Baker & John Perkins

U.S. history has seen many presidents elected on a wave of progressive promises, only to see them compromise again and again once in office, caving to the very interests, military and corporate, that they railed against so effectively. Barack Obama is only the latest to get elected on a promise to end a war and take care of working people, only to preside over an administration stacked with Wall Street types and wind up continuing a war he wanted to wind down.

GRITtv: The F Word: The Wealth-Care Protection Racket

So there it is. Oct. 13 was lucky for some. If you like the Debt Cartel; you gotta love the Wealth-care Protection Racket. The Bloods and Crips are wimps compared to private insurers. They started out by buying influence with both top dogs. Then they handed out millions in legal bribes to a handful of small state legislators. Having thus ensured that any actual opposition was kept off the block, the insurers paid people who paid people to pay propaganda thugs to terrify the neighborhood.