Chicago is shown here not as a northern refuge of progress, but as what it actually was and remains: an internal colony where segregation, poverty, and police occupation shaped Fred Hampton into a revolutionary Marxist with no illusions about the system he was up against. From those conditions came a politics willing to go where... Continue Reading →
Tunis Campbell and the Black Republic That White Power Destroyed
Born free in a slave republic, Campbell became an architect of Black self-rule after emancipation. On Georgia’s Sea Islands, freedpeople built land-based democracy before federal power restored white property. Rising to state leadership, he was criminalized as Reconstruction turned into counterrevolution. His life reveals Reconstruction as an unfinished revolution over land, labor, and power. Prince... Continue Reading →
Callie House and the First Mass Reparations Movement in U.S. History
A formerly enslaved woman who helped turn memory of bondage into a national economic claim. Her movement proved reparations was a working-class demand for stolen labor, not a plea for charity. The federal government criminalized her because compensation threatened the racial economic order. Her legacy links Black liberation to the broader struggle over wealth, power,... Continue Reading →
Marcus Garvey and the First Global Black Mass Movement
He turned a scattered people into a political community with a shared destiny. He transformed Black pride from sentiment into organized power. His movement terrified empire because it operated beyond white control. His legacy still shapes Black radical and internationalist struggle today. Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | Black History Matters Series | February 2,... Continue Reading →
Lil’ Bobby Hutton and the Generation That Refused to Beg
A teenage Panther whose life exposed the colonial reality inside the United States. His political awakening marked the rise of organized Black revolutionary youth. His killing revealed how the state responds when the oppressed build power.His memory remains a lesson in struggle, organization, and historical continuity. Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | Black History Matters... Continue Reading →
History as Weapon: Walter Rodney and the Discipline of Revolutionary Marxism
A Weaponized Intellects reconstruction of A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881–1905 that treats Rodney’s most mature historical materialist work not as scholarship for contemplation, but as theory forged for organization, struggle, and socialist revolution. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | Weaponized Intellects Book Review | January 23, 2026A Book Written to Be... Continue Reading →
An Act of State: Martin Luther King Jr., Political Assassination, and the Crime of Empire
William F. Pepper’s An Act of State dismantles the myth of a tragic killing and exposes the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. as a deliberate act of governance—carried out to halt a revolutionary convergence of anti-imperialism, class struggle, and mass organization inside the United States. This MLK Day intervention refuses memorialization and restores King... Continue Reading →
Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution: Power, Rupture, and the Discipline of Governing Under Siege
A Weaponized Intellects excavation of Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution: Hugo Chávez Talks to Marta Harnecker, tracing how popular rupture collides with institutions, empire, class power, and the unfinished task of building a revolution that can survive its own victories By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | January 18, 2026 A Revolution That Refuses the Script... 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 →
Neo-Colonialism and the Limits of Independence
Kwame Nkrumah’s Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism and the Structural Trap That Confronted the Ghanaian Revolution By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 14, 2025 Writing from Inside the Trap Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism is not a book written from the safety of theory. It is written from inside power, under... Continue Reading →