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 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 →

Part II: The First War — Indigenous Nations and the Birth of Settler Counterinsurgency Genocide, Dispossession, and the Military Architecture of Empire Before the first African was chained and dragged across the Atlantic, before the first slave patrol rode through Carolina swamps, before the United States called itself a nation—there was a war. A war... Continue Reading →

Part I: Origins of the Colonial Repression StateSettler Colonialism, Racial Regimes, and the Birth of Counterinsurgency in the U.S.The United States did not invent counterinsurgency—it inherited, refined, and perfected it as a tool of racial and colonial domination. To understand the evolution of modern policing, surveillance, and domestic warfare in the U.S., we must return... Continue Reading →

Section I: From SAGE to Silicon – How the U.S. Military Built the Internet “The Internet was developed by the Pentagon as a weapon of surveillance and counterinsurgency—not as a tool of liberation.” —Yasha Levine, Surveillance Valley They told us it started in a garage. A story of geek savants and dropout geniuses, tinkering with... Continue Reading →

Apartheid, Emeralds, and the Invention of a Myth – Elon Musk’s Colonial Origins Elon Musk did not emerge from a vacuum, nor from the mythical garage where all American billionaires are supposedly forged. His origins lie not in Silicon Valley, but in Pretoria, the administrative capital of apartheid South Africa—a brutal, racial dictatorship built on... Continue Reading →

The world’s great self-appointed protector of “freedom” and “security” is once again raining missiles on a country that has neither attacked nor threatened it. This time, the target is Yemen. The justification? “Defending international shipping”—a phrase that, in Washington’s dialect of Newspeak, means eliminating any force capable of challenging U.S. control over global trade routes.Donald... Continue Reading →

In August 2019, then-President Donald Trump, in his usual mix of imperial arrogance and real estate hustler bravado, casually suggested that the United States should buy Greenland. The idea was so ludicrous that the Danish Prime Minister dismissed it as “absurd,” prompting Trump to throw one of his characteristic tantrums, canceling a planned visit to... Continue Reading →

The End of Liberal Multiculturalism and the Turn to Open CounterinsurgencyFor decades, the U.S. ruling class played a clever game. It used identity politics, DEI initiatives, and diversity-based reforms not as tools of liberation, but as mechanisms of counterinsurgency—ways to co-opt, pacify, and neutralize radical movements while leaving the empire intact. The goal was never... Continue Reading →

I. The Birth of the Technofascist Ruling ClassAmerican capitalism has entered a new stage—one that can no longer be understood through the old frameworks of neoliberal globalization or even classical imperialism. What we are witnessing is the emergence of a fully integrated, technofascist ruling class, where the traditional factions of U.S. power—Wall Street financiers (the... Continue Reading →