"Truth Is On The Side Of the Oppressed." – Malcolm X
When Emmanuel Todd wrote After the Empire, Washington still believed it ruled a permanent unipolar world. Todd saw something different: an empire sustained less by production than by financial tribute and military spectacle. Two decades later the contradictions he described—economic dependency, micromilitarism, and ideological decay—have matured into the turbulent transition now reshaping global power.By Prince... Continue Reading →
Afshin Matin-Asgari’s history exposes how U.S.–Iran relations were forged not through partnership but through intervention, oil politics, and the overthrow of democratic sovereignty. This review excavates the buried architecture of empire behind the 1953 CIA coup and the construction of the Shah’s authoritarian client state. It follows how the Iranian Revolution shattered that imperial arrangement... Continue Reading →
This review excavates “The Modern Prince” as Gramsci’s prison-forged answer to the West’s revolutionary stall: why fortified capitalism survives crisis through consent, institutions, and “common sense.” It reconstructs his core strategic arsenal—collective will, hegemony, war of position, and the party as the organized brain of the oppressed—against the fantasies of spontaneity and the dead-end of... Continue Reading →
In this Weaponized Intellects book review of Black Athena (Vol. 1), we follow Martin Bernal’s argument that Greece was cut off from its Afroasiatic roots at the very moment Europe was rising to imperial power. We trace how the Ancient Model of Mediterranean entanglement was pushed aside and replaced by the Aryan Model, then cemented... Continue Reading →
Marx dismantles liberal political economy and rebuilds the totality from production outward. Exchange and money reveal separation as the architecture of domination. Machinery and the general intellect expose capital’s war against its own measure of value. The world market universalizes crisis while pointing beyond labor time toward free development. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information... Continue Reading →
Jamaica, Queens forged a revolutionary in the shadow of Malcolm X. The Black Panther Party built dual power — and the state answered with disruption. Underground struggle met federal conspiracy and thirty-three years of captivity. Elderhood returned him to a new generation still facing the same empire. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | Black... Continue Reading →
Black Marxism and the Colonial Blindspot Inside Western Marxism Cedric J. Robinson did not write Black Marxism to abandon Marxism, but to indict the version of it that emerged safely inside empire. By tracing capitalism’s formation through slavery, racial domination, and colonial war, Robinson forces historical materialism to confront what Western Marxism systematically erased. The... Continue Reading →
The daughter of Caribbean labor radicalism enters the furnace of U.S. racial capitalism. The Communist Party becomes a battlefield over race, class, and the super-exploitation of Black women. McCarthyism criminalizes Black internationalism and deports a revolutionary. Exile in Britain transforms repression into new insurgent possibility. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | Black History Matters... Continue Reading →
From colonial violence in the American Midwest to the global battlefields of Africa and Asia, Malcolm’s life traces the sharpening of Black consciousness under empire. His final years mark not moderation but expansion — from religious nationalism to human rights insurgency and anti-imperialist alignment. This essay follows the dialectical arc of his transformation and the... Continue Reading →
From Talented Tenth Idealism to Communist Internationalism, Du Bois’s Life Exposes the Color Line as a Global System, White Labor’s Imperial Bargain, Reconstruction as Crushed Revolution, and the Unfinished Struggle Against Colonial Capitalism.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | Black History Matters Series | February 11, 2026I. A Child of Emancipation, Raised in the Shadow... Continue Reading →
