We live in the shadow of a decaying empire, run not by presidents or parliaments, but by a transnational oligarchy that merges finance, fossil fuel, and digital surveillance into a single, unified machine of domination. This is not the rule of ideas—it is the dictatorship of capital. To confront it, we must understand it—not in... Continue Reading →
From Counterinsurgency to Technofascism: Slave Patrols, Plantations, and the Logic of Anti-Black Insurgency (Part 3)
Part III: Slave Patrols, Plantations, and the Logic of Anti-Black InsurgencyRepression as Governance in the Settler RepublicBefore there were police, there were patrols.Before there were laws, there were chains.Before there was a constitution, there was the whip and the gallows.And behind it all, there was fear—settler fear. Fear that the enslaved might one day rise... Continue Reading →
In Haiti, the Guns Speak the Language of Empire
In Haiti, the Guns Speak the Language of EmpireBy: Kapone | Weaponized InformationThis article is based on and inspired by Danny Shaw’s original piece published on CounterPunch, titled “In Occupied Port-au-Prince, Over 1 Million Haitians Have Been Displaced by Paramilitary Gangs.”Port-au-Prince is burning again. Not with the fire of revolution, but with the scorched-earth policy... Continue Reading →
From Counterinsurgency to Technofascism: The First War – Indigenous Nations and the Birth of US Counterinsurgency (Part 2)
Part II: The First War — Indigenous Nations and the Birth of Settler Counterinsurgency Genocide, Dispossession, and the Military Architecture of Empire Before the first African was chained and dragged across the Atlantic, before the first slave patrol rode through Carolina swamps, before the United States called itself a nation—there was a war. A war... Continue Reading →
From Counterinsurgency to Technofascism: Origins of the Colonial Repression State (Part I)
Part I: Origins of the Colonial Repression StateSettler Colonialism, Racial Regimes, and the Birth of Counterinsurgency in the U.S.The United States did not invent counterinsurgency—it inherited, refined, and perfected it as a tool of racial and colonial domination. To understand the evolution of modern policing, surveillance, and domestic warfare in the U.S., we must return... Continue Reading →
Black Power and the Internal Colony’s Revolt, 1954-1969 (Race/Class 101, Part 8)
The Class Rebellion of the Colonized in the Heart of Empire I. From the Shop Floor to the Street: A Colonial Proletariat Emerges By the 1950s, a seismic shift had taken place within the U.S. working class. The descendants of enslaved Africans, once confined to the plantation and the sharecropper’s plot, had become the backbone... Continue Reading →
Black Scare/Red Scare: The Birth of US Counterinsurgency, 1917-1954 (Race/Class 101, Part 7
The empire builds a war machine abroad—and a police state at home I. War, Migration, and the Birth of a New Class World War I didn’t just redraw the borders of Europe—it transformed the racial geography of the United States. As white empires collapsed overseas, the U.S. emerged with more capital, more confidence, and a... Continue Reading →
Racial Capitalism in the Age of Empire 1877 – WWI, (Race/Class 101, Part 6)
Racial Capitalism in the Age of Empire (1877 – WWI)I. Introduction: From Reconstruction to Global EmpireWith the overthrow of Reconstruction, the U.S. ruling class didn’t just restore white supremacy at home—it expanded it abroad. The period from 1877 to World War I was defined by two simultaneous processes:The consolidation of racial capitalism within the U.S.... Continue Reading →
Reconstruction and Counter-Reconstruction: Black Power, White Backlash, and the Battle for Democracy, 1866 – 1876, (Race/Class 101, Part 5)
I. The Closest the U.S. Ever Came to Democracy For a brief moment after the Civil War, the United States stood at a crossroads. The old order—where enslaved labor fueled the plantation economy—was dead, but the new one had yet to be written. For the first time in U.S. history, Black people—formerly enslaved and free—were... Continue Reading →
The Silicon Matrix: Empire’s Brain and the Rise of Technofascism
Section I: From SAGE to Silicon – How the U.S. Military Built the Internet “The Internet was developed by the Pentagon as a weapon of surveillance and counterinsurgency—not as a tool of liberation.” —Yasha Levine, Surveillance Valley They told us it started in a garage. A story of geek savants and dropout geniuses, tinkering with... Continue Reading →