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Rodrigo Ribeiro

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I am just an anonymous citizen who firmly believes that we are the ones we are always waiting for. No saviors, heroes, leaders, gurus, or superior or inferior, we are all equals, and we need to think and behave as if it matters.

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Rodrigo Ribeiro @ecogitar.bsky.social · Jul 14

Elite Capture & European Self-Destruction: The Hidden Architecture of Transatlantic Hegemony
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Elite Capture & European Self-Destruction: The Hidden Architecture of Transatlantic Hegemony

From Nord Stream’s sabotage to NATO’s 5 % arms push: Inside the Networks Fueling Transatlantic Madness

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Rodrigo Ribeiro

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Operation Condor: Transnational Murder Syndicate
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Operation Condor: Transnational Murder Syndicate

All my investigations are free to read, thanks to the enormous generosity of my readers.

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December 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM

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themindness.bsky.social

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Weaponizing Time Part III investigates the "Steel-Hard Casing" of Operationsplan Deutschland and the technocratic coup turning Europe into a staging ground for this exact scenario.

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Weaponizing Time – Part III: The Steel-Hard Casing of Imperial Deferral

From Operationsplan Deutschland to the Biedermann complex: How Western elites are cementing a logistical infrastructure of despair that no future government can undo.

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December 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM

Rodrigo Ribeiro

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To fight financial illiteracy, we mapped our money system as waterworks
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To fight financial illiteracy, we mapped our money system as waterworks

Far from the idea of “trickle-down economics”, a map illustrates how the waterworks of the financial system are parching certain sections of the real economy and producing vast inequality.

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November 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM

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David Graeber Institute

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Why is the priority of the economy not to house the homeless and ensure everyone has good healthcare?

it used to be the economy was the way we provide people with food shelters and other necessities to keep them alive. now we are all supposed to die for the sake of the ecomy. What is this thing they are talking about. is it just code for rich people. class power, or what.

November 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM

Rodrigo Ribeiro

@ecogitar.bsky.social

Leaked: Britain's Ukrainian Sniper Training Plot
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Leaked: Britain's Ukrainian Sniper Training Plot

All my investigations are free to read, thanks to the enormous generosity of my readers.

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October 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM

Rodrigo Ribeiro

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What’s Up With Peter Thiel’s Obsession With the Antichrist? newrepublic.com/article/2004...

What’s Up With Peter Thiel’s Obsession With the Antichrist?

The tech mogul is amping up his apocalyptic rhetoric—and adding a dangerous dose of extremism into the already-fraught culture war.

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October 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM

Rodrigo Ribeiro

@ecogitar.bsky.social

“Capital or Life”: President Gustavo Petro’s 2025 UNGA Speech — Annotated
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“Capital or Life”: President Gustavo Petro’s 2025 UNGA Speech — Annotated

A close reading of the Colombian president's 2025 speech, which wields dependency theory, decolonial ideas, and eco-socialism to demand a planetary change.

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October 1, 2025 at 9:24 AM

Rodrigo Ribeiro

@ecogitar.bsky.social

A Colour Revolution In Nepal? Kit Klarenberg thegrayzone.com/author/kit-k... www.kitklarenberg.com/p/a-colour-r...

A Colour Revolution In Nepal?

All my investigations are free to read, thanks to the enormous generosity of my readers.

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September 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM

Rodrigo Ribeiro

@ecogitar.bsky.social

The Free Market Is a Myth | @freefreeforum.bsky.social
Podcast with Clara Mattei
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The Free Market Is a Myth | FREE Podcast with Clara Mattei

YouTube video by FREE – Forum for Real Economic Emancipation

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September 18, 2025 at 6:59 AM

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Capitalism didn’t replace slavery, it scaled it.

Plantation slavery wasn’t a “pre-capitalist exception.” It was the model. And the same system of exploitation still runs today.

🎥 Capitalism & Slavery: The Truth They Don’t Teach You w/ David McNally 👉 youtu.be/RcE-4GT7C_o

#Capitalism #Exploitation

Capitalism & Slavery: The Truth They Don’t Teach You | David McNally & Clara Mattei

YouTube video by FREE – Forum for Real Economic Emancipation

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September 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM

Rodrigo Ribeiro

@ecogitar.bsky.social

Collective Property, Private Control www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Laleh Khalili · Collective Property, Private Control: Defence Tech

The United States was born in war and has waged a war of some sort in every year of its existence. Silicon Valley knows...

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September 9, 2025 at 6:42 AM

Rodrigo Ribeiro

@ecogitar.bsky.social

Ukraine's Corporate Carve-Up Collapses?
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Ukraine's Corporate Carve-Up Collapses?

All my investigations are free to read, thanks to the enormous generosity of my readers.

www.kitklarenberg.com

July 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM

Rodrigo Ribeiro

@ecogitar.bsky.social

Elite Capture & European Self-Destruction: The Hidden Architecture of Transatlantic Hegemony
open.substack.com/pub/themindn...

Elite Capture & European Self-Destruction: The Hidden Architecture of Transatlantic Hegemony

From Nord Stream’s sabotage to NATO’s 5 % arms push: Inside the Networks Fueling Transatlantic Madness

open.substack.com

July 14, 2025 at 2:55 AM

Rodrigo Ribeiro

@ecogitar.bsky.social

Exploring the topic of framing
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Exploring the topic of framing

YouTube video by Rodrigo Ribeiro

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July 13, 2025 at 4:17 AM

Rodrigo Ribeiro

@ecogitar.bsky.social

Michael Hudson michael-hudson.com
On Money, Debt and Privatisation
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Michael Hudson On Money, Debt and Privatisation.

YouTube video by Institute of David Graeber

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July 13, 2025 at 4:06 AM

Rodrigo Ribeiro

@ecogitar.bsky.social

A treatise and video essay on tech billionaires like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, and other Silicon Valley Tech guys. ‪@alexander-avila.bsky.social‬
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The Tech Billionaire to Fascist Pipeline

YouTube video by Alexander Avila

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July 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM

Rodrigo Ribeiro

@ecogitar.bsky.social

Meritocracy, entitlement, frustration and fascism
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Meritocracy, entitlement, frustration and fascism

YouTube video by Rodrigo Ribeiro

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July 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM

Rodrigo Ribeiro

@ecogitar.bsky.social

Ukraine Dies Behind The Curtain
Kit Klarenberg
www.kitklarenberg.com and Alex McKay of the Marx Engels Lenin Institute
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Ukraine Dies Behind The Curtain

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July 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM

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Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven

@ingridhk.bsky.social

What's the problem with Nievas & Piketty's understanding of unequal exchange, colonialism and, implicitly, imperialism? I break down their theory & empirics here in this podcast, and lay out what gets lost when you focus on flows over social relations.
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