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 →
Cold War at the Top of the World: Usha Vance, Greenland, and the Empire’s Desperate Diplomacy
In one of the most bizarre and telling moments of U.S. diplomacy in recent memory, American officials in Greenland's capital of Nuuk went door-to-door asking residents if they wanted to meet Usha Vance—the wife of Vice President J.D. Vance. Not a single Greenlander took them up on the offer. No crowds. No curious onlookers. No... 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 →
Yemen and the Chokepoint of Empire: Red Sea Resistance in the Age of Multipolarity
I. Yemen: The Speck That Blocks the Empire At the southwestern tip of the Arabian Peninsula lies a country that the Western press often portrays as "poor," "tribal," and "ungovernable." Yet this same country—Yemen—happens to sit on one of the most strategic chokepoints in the global capitalist system: the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, through which nearly... Continue Reading →
From Counterinsurgency to Technofascism: The Wages of Whiteness and the Birth of the Settler Working Class (Part 4)
Part IV: The Wages of Whiteness and the Birth of the Settler Working Class Race, Class, and the Making of Counterinsurgency in Colonial America Before the ink dried on any founding document, before a single phrase about liberty or the pursuit of happiness was ever uttered, the American project had already begun in conquest and... Continue Reading →
Anatomy of the White Ruling Class: The Yankees: Aristocracy of Finance, Architects of Empire (Part 2)
Genesis of the Yankee Class — British Settler Colonialism and the Birth of the White Ruling Class “In the beginning, all ruling classes seize the land. They kill for it, write laws to keep it, and call themselves civilized.” The white ruling class in the United States did not originate in 1776. Its birth lies... Continue Reading →
Anatomy of the White Ruling Class: An Introduction (Part 1)
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 →