The ancient Chinese concept of the Mandate of Heaven was never superstition — it was a theory of political legitimacy rooted in material life, popular welfare, and historical judgment. This essay revives that framework as a weapon of analysis, comparing a United States empire that rules through coercion, sanctions, and decline management with a Chinese... Continue Reading →
Message to MAGA: Wall Street’s Fake Rebellion and the War on the Working Class
This essay is a direct political intervention into the crisis of working-class consciousness inside a settler-colonial empire in decline. It argues that the anger animating the MAGA movement is real—rooted in decades of deindustrialization, wage stagnation, debt, farm foreclosure, and the slow collapse of social life—but that this anger has been deliberately misdirected by monopoly... Continue Reading →
Iran Under Hybrid War: Sanctions, Sabotage, Terror Proxies, and the Long Siege Against Sovereignty
A forensic reconstruction of how sanctions, sabotage, terror proxies, narrative warfare, and regional forward bases have converged into a full-spectrum hybrid war against Iran — and why the January 2026 unrest is not a spontaneous crisis, but the latest front in a decades-long campaign to break an independent state.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information |... Continue Reading →
Posting Empire: Trump 2.0 and the Open Turn to Colonial Rule
How Trump’s Social Media Declarations Signal the Geopolitical, Economic, and Strategic Architecture of Fortress America and the American PoleBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | January 12, 2026When Empire Posts Its Intentions There are moments when the empire speaks in polished paragraphs—through white papers, summit communiqués, and the priestly language of “shared values.” And then... Continue Reading →
Greenland and the Architecture of Fortress America
How U.S. Homeland Defense, Arctic Chokepoints, and Critical Minerals Are Converging into a New Territorial Imperial ProjectBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | January 11, 2026Greenland Was Never a Joke — It Was a Map of Empire Speaking Out LoudWhen Trump first floated the idea of the United States “acquiring” Greenland, plenty of people laughed... Continue Reading →
Capital Unmasked: How Exploitation Disappears While Domination Deepens
This Weaponized Intellects review of Capital, Volume III is the third strike in our front-to-back reconstruction of Marx’s trilogy. If you haven’t read the first two reviews, start there:Capital as Crime Scene: How Marx Dissects the Social Machinery of Exploitation — Volume ICapital Never Rests: Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume II and the Circulation of Exploitation... Continue Reading →
Fortress America and the Oil Ultimatum: Venezuela, Hyper-Imperialism, and the Open Consolidation of the American Pole
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 →