"Truth Is On The Side Of the Oppressed." – Malcolm X
Editors Note: I'm honored to introduce our newest columnist at Weaponized Information "Booby" Bolden. We were cellmates for 2 years when I was locked up between 2009-2011, and he's unfortunately still incarcerated today. But he is one of the main people who developed this analysis and political line with me through years of struggle in... Continue Reading →
The latest dispatch from the imperial command center comes courtesy of Scott Bessent—Trump’s Treasury Secretary and hedge fund aristocrat—who calmly informed the American public that it’s time to accept "economic pain." Translation: the party’s over. Cheap goods? Inflation relief? A functional social safety net? Forget it. The comforts that once placated the domestic population are... Continue Reading →
Weaponized Information — April 4, 2025The American economy, long paraded as the vanguard of capitalist modernity, stumbled today—spectacularly, publicly, and predictably. Over $6.4 trillion was erased from global markets in under 24 hours. The Dow Jones collapsed by more than 2,200 points. The Nasdaq, that glittering altar of technocratic wizardry, plunged into bear market territory.... Continue Reading →
I. The Ruling Class Strikes Back By the 1980s, the white ruling class had lost its patience. After a generation of upheaval—urban rebellions, anti-war uprisings, Black liberation movements, Indigenous resurgence, Third World revolutions—U.S. imperialism launched a strategic counteroffensive. Reagan was not just a new president. He was a new regime. His administration reorganized the U.S.... Continue Reading →
I. From Black Revolution to Black Representation By the dawn of the 1970s, the U.S. settler state had waged a brutal counterinsurgency campaign against the revolutionary Black freedom struggle. The Black Panther Party was splintered, surveilled, and assaulted. The Black Liberation Army was underground. Fred Hampton was assassinated. Assata was in exile. George Jackson was... Continue Reading →
In one of the most bizarre and telling moments of U.S. diplomacy in recent memory, American officials in Greenland's capital of Nuuk went door-to-door asking residents if they wanted to meet Usha Vance—the wife of Vice President J.D. Vance. Not a single Greenlander took them up on the offer. No crowds. No curious onlookers. No... Continue Reading →
From Land Theft to TechnofascismThe U.S. didn’t just annex land. It annexed people.In 1848, under the barrel of a settler gun, Mexico surrendered half its national territory to the United States. But the so-called Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo didn’t just redraw borders—it redefined the logic of American conquest. Overnight, tens of thousands of Mexicans—Indigenous, mestizo,... Continue Reading →
I. Yemen: The Speck That Blocks the Empire At the southwestern tip of the Arabian Peninsula lies a country that the Western press often portrays as "poor," "tribal," and "ungovernable." Yet this same country—Yemen—happens to sit on one of the most strategic chokepoints in the global capitalist system: the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, through which nearly... Continue Reading →
Part IV: The Wages of Whiteness and the Birth of the Settler Working Class Race, Class, and the Making of Counterinsurgency in Colonial America Before the ink dried on any founding document, before a single phrase about liberty or the pursuit of happiness was ever uttered, the American project had already begun in conquest and... Continue Reading →
Genesis of the Yankee Class — British Settler Colonialism and the Birth of the White Ruling Class “In the beginning, all ruling classes seize the land. They kill for it, write laws to keep it, and call themselves civilized.” The white ruling class in the United States did not originate in 1776. Its birth lies... Continue Reading →
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