There’s A New Sheriff in Town: The Gipper, Counterinsurgency, and the Reorganization of Empire, 1980-1992 (Race/Class 101, Part 9)

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 →

Counterinsurgency, Co-optation, and the Birth of the Neoliberal Order, 1970-1980 (Part 8b)

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 →

From Counterinsurgency to Technofascism: “The Border Crossed Us” – The Colonization of Aztlan and the Rise of Counterinsurgency (Part 5)

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 →

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 →

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