This essay argues that Trump 2.0 marks the open phase of U.S. hyper-imperialism, where coercion replaces consent and hemispheric dominance is enforced without disguise. Using Venezuela as the central case, it traces how leader abduction, naval encirclement, oil custodianship, and legal warfare form a consolidated strategy to subordinate sovereign states to the American Pole under... Continue Reading →
Trump, Greenland, and the Return of Territorial Empire
An empire tries to blame one man for what its strategy requires. The Arctic is revealed as a military node, an extractive frontier, and a colonial question. Beneath alliance etiquette, imperial authority demands control, not cooperation. From Greenland to the Global South, resistance exposes the system speaking plainly. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information |... Continue Reading →
When Empire Kidnaps and the Left Blinks: Alex Callinicos, Venezuela, and the Politics of Conditional Anti-Imperialism
In his January 6, 2026 article in Socialist Worker, Alex Callinicos condemns the U.S. seizure of Venezuela’s president as a brutal assertion of hemispheric dominance, while simultaneously advancing a line that blames the Bolivarian process itself for its vulnerability. This essay takes Callinicos’ argument seriously—and then dismantles it—showing how a rhetoric of anti-imperialism can reproduce... Continue Reading →
Markets, Mandarins, and the Managed Decline of Empire
Experts speak so capital can rule without consent. Facts reveal an imperial system under strain, not a neutral economy at risk. Monetary discipline, tariffs, and militarization form a single strategy of control. The task before the people is organization, not faith in forecasters.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized InformationJanuary 6, 2026How the Economy Is Ventriloquized Through... Continue Reading →
Socialism of the 21st Century: Hugo Chavez on the Bolivarian Revolution and Socialism
Hugo Chávez’s notebook for militants: party-building, revolutionary ethics, and the commune as the material base of people’s powerEdited by Prince Kapone • January 4, 2026Introduction Socialism of the 21st Century is not a memoir, a slogan, or a museum piece. It is a field manual for a revolution under siege — a set of sharp,... Continue Reading →
From Sanctions to Shackles: The Kidnapping of President Maduro and the Consolidation of the American Pole
How the American Pole escalated from sanctions to abduction—and why sovereignty survived the attempt at decapitation By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | January 3, 2026The Day the Monroe Doctrine Spoke in Plain EnglishThere are moments when empire stops dressing itself up. The usual costumes—“democracy promotion,” “human rights,” “counter-narcotics,” “regional stability”—fall off, and what remains... Continue Reading →
Capital Never Rests: Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume II and the Circulation of Exploitation
This review of Capital, Volume II is the second installment in our Weaponized Intellects reconstruction of Marx’s trilogy. If you haven’t read the first review—where we follow Marx from the commodity to surplus-value, machinery, accumulation, and the so-called primitive accumulation—start there: Capital as Crime Scene: How Marx Dissects the Social Machinery of Exploitation . Time... Continue Reading →
Bamako 2025: When the Sahel Put Sovereignty on Paper
The Second Session of the AES/CESS as a Turning Point in State Power, Regional Integration, and the Unfinished Question of Rupture By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | January 2, 2026 What Was Actually Decided in Bamako: Reading the Communiqué as a Political Act The second session of the College of Heads of State of... Continue Reading →
When the Court Preaches Independence While Power Governs in Silence
Judicial authority is framed as neutral refuge amid political chaos. Emergency procedure quietly accelerates executive power at home and abroad. History and ritual are deployed to manage a growing crisis of legitimacy. Working people face governance without consent while being asked for faith.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | January 1, 2026A Warm Blanket Called... Continue Reading →
Europe’s Generals and Europe’s People: War Readiness as a Ruling-Class Project
Military elites recast war as an unavoidable condition rather than a political choice. Selective facts and strategic silences transform militarization into common sense. “Preparedness” emerges as a method of social discipline under imperial strain. Working people confront a system demanding sacrifice while offering no future. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | January 1, 2026... Continue Reading →