Silver Against the Dragon: China, the World Market, and the Long Prelude to the Opium War

By Pablo Katari | Weaponized Information July 27, 2025 Before the gunboats came the bullion. This essay reconstructs the tributary world-system of Qing China before its forced integration into the capitalist world economy, tracing how global silver flows, comprador betrayal, and imperialist encirclement collapsed a sovereign social formation that had once stood at the center... Continue Reading →

Primitive Accumulation by Narcotic: The Opium Wars and the Forcible Integration of China into the World Market

How Britain’s opium gunboats shattered China’s agrarian order, dismembered its sovereignty, and inaugurated the long colonial century that revolution would one day buryBy Pablo Katari | Weaponized Information| July 26, 2025Exchange as Pretext, War as MechanismThe circulation of commodities requires peace; the expansion of capital requires war. In the case of China, this contradiction found... Continue Reading →

The Base Is Gone, but the System Remains: Senegal, France and the Imperialist System

France’s retreat from Senegal isn’t a reset—it’s a rupture. The neocolonial order is cracking under pressure, and the Global North must choose: defend the crumbling empire, or help dismantle it.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized InformationJuly 18, 2025Imperial Retreat Disguised as DiplomacyOn July 17, 2025, the Associated Press published a report announcing that France had officially... Continue Reading →

Bradsher’s Blindspot: China’s Industrial Logic Defies the Collapse Narrative

U.S. media frames falling Chinese prices as deflationary doom, but behind the headlines lies a deliberate strategy of scaled production, subsidized green tech, and trade rerouting—imperial protectionism can’t keep up.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | July 15, 2025Economy Without Context: The New York Times Performs Statistical OrientalismOn July 14, 2025, The New York Times... Continue Reading →

Diplomacy by Siege: Sanctions, Media, and the Long War on the Cuban Revolution

How imperial propaganda manufactures consent for economic warfare—and how Cuba’s defiance exposes the lie By Prince KaponeJuly 13, 2025Trial by Headline: When Empire Writes the Verdict Before the CrimeOn July 12, 2025, the Chicago Tribune ran a wire-fed dispatch headlined “US sanctions Cuban President Díaz-Canel and other officials for human rights violations”. The byline belongs... Continue Reading →

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