Category: Imperialism/Hyper-Imperialism

The Empire Calls Resistance Subversion: Cuba and Washington’s War on Revolutionary Consciousness

The State Department's report conflates documented espionage with a sweeping indictment of social movements, branding students, revolutionaries, and dissenters as part of a conspiracy orchestrated from Cuba. This narrative denies local struggles against oppression, instead framing resistance as a foreign-directed plot, thus erasing historical context and the material origins of dissent. The document's loose connection between Cuba's influence and contemporary activism serves as a McCarthyite tool against American dissent. By equating genuine political engagement with espionage, it aims to squash revolutionary consciousness and reinforce the status quo, revealing the empire's fear that the oppressed might unite and resist independently.

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Public Money, Private Command: The State Returns to Rescue Capital

Washington's recent equity stakes in key corporations like Intel signal capitalism's failure rather than a shift towards socialism. While the government assumes control over critical industries, it simultaneously excludes workers from labor and decision-making roles. The stated objective is national security, but this forms part of a broader imperial strategy that intertwines military needs with corporate interests. The public funds the industrial system while remaining marginalized, illustrating a profound contradiction: social production is maintained under corporate control. As America grapples with its economic decline, the push for a more equitable structure is vital. It's time for public investment to translate into worker empowerment and community authority.

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Beyond Hegemony, Beyond Illusion: Samir Amin, Multipolarity, and the Unfinished Road to Socialism

What happens when one of the twentieth century's greatest Marxist theorists is tested against the world that emerged after unipolarity began to fracture? This Weaponized Intellects review excavates Samir Amin's Beyond US Hegemony? as both a product of its historical moment and a living revolutionary framework, measuring its arguments against China's socialist transition, Russia's anti-hegemonic resurgence, the rise of BRICS, and Amin's own later theoretical development. The result is neither celebration nor dismissal, but a critical reconstruction that distinguishes multipolarity from socialism and argues that only organized popular power can transform the decline of empire into genuine human emancipation.

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The Foreign Enemy Fraud: From Russiagate’s Thought Police to Chinagate’s Electoral Cage

David Corn's resurrection of Russiagate in response to Trump's accusations of Chinagate exposes the absurdity of electoral politics in a billionaire-dominated America. By framing the discourse as a conflict between foreign adversaries—Russia or China—Corn obscures the true culprits: a corrupt ruling class manipulating the political system to protect its interests. Both narratives serve to distract the populace from the reality of a plutocracy masquerading as democracy. The ongoing chaos is but a struggle within the elite, each side reinforcing the structures of oppression while preventing real power from reaching the working class. True resistance demands unity against this imperial façade.

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China’s Missing Protests: How Bloomberg Turns Workers’ Grievances into Investor Intelligence

Bloomberg turns a decline in documented protests into evidence of a hidden political crisis, relying on a US-backed monitoring project whose methods cannot support such sweeping conclusions. By collapsing wage disputes, housing conflicts, petitions, and local administrative complaints into the single category of “dissent,” the article strips Chinese grievances of their concrete class content. It also ignores the institutions through which millions of people pursue redress and reduces China’s political system to a Cold War caricature. The result is not a serious account of Chinese society, but investor intelligence: workers appear only as risks to accumulation, while the real struggle over socialism’s direction disappears.

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The Guardrails Are a Cage: AI, Surplus Humanity, and the Technofascist State

Hundreds of economists warn that artificial intelligence could displace millions of workers, but their petition mistakes a ruling-class offensive for a technical oversight. AI is already being used to reduce workforces, intensify surveillance, automate discipline, exclude applicants, restrict public benefits, and strengthen military and counterinsurgency systems. The real danger is not that machines may escape human control, but that monopoly capital is using them to reduce its dependence on labor while expanding the apparatus needed to manage those it renders surplus. Against this technofascist future, workers are organizing to seize control over deployment, data, productivity, and power.

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The Palestine Exception: Why Washington Is Trying to Break the ICC

The Guardian's coverage of Marco Rubio's claim that the International Criminal Court (ICC) threatens U.S. sovereignty highlights the deeper issue of imperial exemption rather than genuine sovereignty. The U.S. has long opposed ICC jurisdiction that could implicate American or allied personnel, reacting strongly against Palestinian efforts to document crimes under occupation. The article critiques the liberal institutionalism of the response, noting a lack of representation for affected parties. It underscores that U.S. sanctions targeting Palestinian organizations and ICC officials are a means to maintain impunity. Oppressed nations seek accountability, using available legal systems to challenge the dominance of imperial powers and protect their sovereignty against external coercion.

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The Viceroy’s Ledger: How Washington Seized Venezuela’s Present and Mortgaged Its Future

The New York Times paints Marco Rubio as Venezuela's imperial viceroy, wielding control over its government through military force, financial manipulation, and a façade of diplomacy. This orchestrated colonial domination, disguised as governance, reveals a grotesque power dynamic where a nation’s sovereignty is traded for political tapestries spun by Washington. While Rubio's grip tightens, the real resistance lies among Venezuelans and anti-imperialist allies in the U.S. They must dismantle U.S.-imposed sanctions and return Venezuela’s wealth to its people. The struggle against colonial rule continues, as the masses can't be merely passive subjects in the rewriting of their national story.

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The Tollbooth at the Edge of Empire: Washington Sets Fire to Hormuz and Charges the World for Water

The Trump administration claims it is defending freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, yet its latest policy reveals something very different: a naval blockade of Iran, a bid to control one of the world's most strategic waterways and a proposed 20 percent charge on global commerce passing through it. Excavating the BBC's coverage, this essay reconstructs the chronology buried beneath the headlines, exposing how a war launched by the United States and Israel has been repackaged as a story of Iranian aggression. Behind the rhetoric of maritime security lies a deeper struggle over sovereignty, imperial power and who has the right to govern the world's vital arteries of trade.

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The Lawyers of the Counterrevolution: How Nicaragua Is Dismantling the Infrastructure of Imperial Power

The Associated Press presents Nicaragua’s removal of lawyers from the professional registry as another unexplained authoritarian crackdown. This essay reconstructs the deeper reality: a post-2018 Sandinista counter-subversion campaign aimed at the foreign-funded NGO, media, ecclesiastical, expatriate, financial, and legal networks the government believes helped organize the attempted coup. Lawyers and notaries matter because they give those networks legal continuity through contracts, properties, associations, donations, and powers of attorney. Nicaragua has the right to dismantle imperial infrastructure, but revolutionary sovereignty must still distinguish proven subversion from ordinary legal practice through transparent evidence and popular accountability.

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