The empire returns not to make peace, but to make profit—and to break resistance. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | May 14, 2025 What Empire Lifts, It Owns The lifting of sanctions on Syria wasn’t mercy—it was a hostile corporate acquisition. Trump has rebranded imperialism as economic “normalization,” where rebel-turned-technocrats like Ahmed al-Sharaa govern... Continue Reading →
The European Aberration, Part I: The West Was Never Civilized
Capitalism, Conquest, and the Making of a Death Project By Prine Kapone | Weaponized Information | May 14, 2025 The West Was Never Civilized I was raised on the myths. Like so many of us born inside the belly of the beast, I was taught to see the West as the center of the world—reason’s... Continue Reading →
Pepe Mujica: From Guerrilla to President, from Prison Cell to People’s Tribunal
Born of the Land, Forged in Struggle “I’m not poor. Poor are those who need too much.” — José “Pepe” Mujica Pepe Mujica came from the soil—not the palaces, not the parliaments, but the hard land and harder times of Montevideo’s outskirts. Born in 1935 to a farming family that lost almost everything, he knew... Continue Reading →
4th CELAC-China Forum: Keynote Opening Speech by Peoples Republic of China President Xi Jinping
Writing a New Chapter in Building A China-LAC Community with a Shared Future Keynote Address by H.E. Xi Jinping President of the People's Republic of China At the Opening Ceremony of the Fourth Ministerial Meeting of the China-CELAC Forum Beijing, May 13, 2025: Your Excellency President Gustavo Petro, Your Excellency President Luiz Inácio Lula da... Continue Reading →
4th CELAC-China Forum: Opening Speech by Brazilian President Lula da Silva
Speech by President Lula at the Opening of the IV CELAC-China Forum H.E. Mr. Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China; H.E. Comrade Gabriel Boric, President of the Republic of Chile, through whom I greet the entire Chilean delegation; My dear Gustavo Petro, President of the Republic of Colombia, through whom I greet... Continue Reading →
Starlink Over the Desert: Musk Brings Surveillance Capitalism to Saudi Arabia
Trump’s return to the Middle East isn’t diplomacy—it’s a hyper-imperialist tech caravan. From Starlink satellites to humanoid robots, Elon Musk delivers the digital weapons of repression to monarchs and strongmen, wiring up empire in the name of modernization. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | May 13, 2025 Desert Deals and Digital Chains: Excavating the... Continue Reading →
Surveillance State on the Rio Grande: Empire Tightens Its Digital Noose
In the deserts of Southern California, a new kind of border war is being waged—not with boots and barbed wire, but with drones, algorithms, and biometric terror. Migrants are the target. Humanitarians are suspects. And the U.S. borderlands have become a proving ground for the empire’s technofascist future. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information |... Continue Reading →
The Empire’s Mirror: EU Fantasies of a Fragile Russia and the Weaponization of Collapse
Brussels Isn’t Predicting Crisis in Moscow—It’s Manufacturing Consent for Its OwnBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | May 13, 2025I. Reading Between the Ruins: How the Empire Writes Economic FantasyJan Strupczewski is not some rogue freelancer misreading data in a Brussels café. He is the Deputy Bureau Chief of Reuters’ France and Benelux operation, stationed... Continue Reading →
The Horizontal Horizon: Petro, Civilizational Solidarity, and the Imperialist Fear of Dialogue
From “Clash” to Cooperation: Global South Sovereignty and the West’s Weaponized Silence By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | May 13, 2025 I. The Sound of Silence: When the Empire Says Nothing, Listen Harder When Colombian President Gustavo Petro stood in Beijing and called for a “dialogue among civilizations,” it was the kind of statement... Continue Reading →
Death Squad Democracy: How Trump Recolonized Syria by Lifting Sanctions
The empire’s latest chapter in Syria isn’t peace—it’s a hostile takeover by jihadist proxies in suits, backed by Gulf petrodollars, brokered by Wall Street, and blessed in Riyadh. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | May 13, 2025 I. What Empire Lifts, It Owns: The Propaganda Function of Sanctions “Relief” Let’s start with the byline.... Continue Reading →