Trump’s claim that Venezuela “stole” U.S. oil is not a gaffe or exaggeration—it is an imperial verdict. This essay dismantles that claim by tracing the conflict over Venezuela’s resources through international law, the neoliberal wreckage of the pre-Chávez era, the Bolivarian rupture, Maduro’s Plan de la Patria, and María Corina Machado’s restoration blueprint. What emerges... Continue Reading →
Socialism Under Siege: Civil War, Degeneration, and the Fight to Keep Power in the Hands of the Masses
Socialism has never developed in peace. Forced to build under permanent imperial encirclement, every revolution has faced the same central contradiction: how to defend power without allowing administration to replace politics and coercion to substitute for mass legitimacy. Tracing this struggle from 1917 through Mao and into post-Mao China, this essay argues that siege is... Continue Reading →
Strangled In The Cradle: Sanctions, Siege, and the Imperial War on Socialist Development
How imperialism strangled socialist revolutions through sanctions, blockades, and economic warfare—and why socialism was never judged on its own terms, but only under siege. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 24, 2025The Alibi They Hand You When They Don’t Want You to Ask Who’s Holding the Knife“Socialism never worked anywhere.” You’ve heard it... Continue Reading →
Breaking the Bonds of Fate: Epicurus, Marx, and the Struggle Against Determinism in an Age of Imperial Decline
A Weaponized Intellects review of John Bellamy Foster’s Breaking the Bonds of Fate — recovering Epicurus as a foundational materialist, tracing Marxism’s insurgent struggle against determinism and inevitability, and reasserting historical agency against the politics of surrender in an age of imperial decline. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information — Weaponized Intellects Book Review |... Continue Reading →
Community or Command: China, the American Pole, and the Battle for Latin America
The Hemisphere at the Breaking Point There are moments when states stop improvising and start publishing doctrine. Not press statements, not campaign slogans, but documents meant to harden intentions into policy and turn instinct into structure. Late 2025 was one of those moments. Within weeks of each other, two texts appeared that quietly announced Latin... Continue Reading →
Trump, the U.S. Navy, and the BBC’s Gunboat Narrative
How “Narco-Terrorism” Became the Alibi for Blockade, Sanctions, and the Collision Between U.S. Maritime Power and Venezuelan Sovereignty By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 18, 2025 When Criminality Explains Everything and War Explains Nothing Our target is the BBC News report, “Venezuela denounces Trump’s order for ship blockade as ‘warmongering threats’” The article... Continue Reading →
Capitalism Did Not Float In on the Market: Chibber, Jacobin, and the Political Function of Western Marxism
How Western Marxism Turns Colonial Violence into “History Theory” to Save the Settler OrderBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 14, 2025When “History Theory” Becomes an Alibi for Empire This essay is a polemical intervention into a recent Jacobin interview with NYU sociologist Vivek Chibber, published as a transcript of an episode of Confronting... Continue Reading →
When Money Becomes a Weapon: Euroclear, the European Union, and the Collapse of Sovereign Finance into Financial Warfare
Euroclear, frozen reserves, and the quiet normalization of financial warfare in a collapsing imperial order By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 14, 2025 When Power Speaks in the Calm Voice of Administration The article under excavation — “EU dismisses Russia's lawsuit against Euroclear as ‘speculative’ and groundless” , published by Euronews on December... Continue Reading →
White Malice and the War on African Liberation
Susan Williams’ archival excavation of CIA counterrevolution reveals how U.S. neocolonialism strangled Pan-African socialism—and why the same imperial logic governs the world today By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | Weaponized Intellects Book Review | December 13, 2025 When Africa Tried to Unite and America Took It Personal Susan Williams opens White Malice in the... Continue Reading →
Pirates of Profit: Sanctions, Seizures, and the Return of Imperial Plunder
From mercantile privateers to sanctioned seizures, how piracy has always been capitalism’s hidden engine—and why it is resurfacing in the age of U.S. imperial declineBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 12, 2025Pirates of the Caribbean, 2025: The Seizure That Exposed an Empire’s Old HungerAt dawn on December 11, 2025, the United States staged... Continue Reading →