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 Storm Outside and the Steel Within: Stalin on Capitalist Crisis and Soviet Fortification
As capitalist empires collapsed into crisis and carnage, Stalin stood before the 18th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union not to gloat, but to clarify. His report, delivered in March 1939, was a cold-eyed inventory of global contradictions and a sober defense of the socialist path. It was not a speech of... Continue Reading →
Revolution After Victory: Mao’s Sixty Points and the Struggle to Stay Red
In the wake of socialist victory, Mao sounded the alarm: triumph breeds complacency, and revolution demands method. His 1958 “Sixty Points” was not a plan—it was a weapon. A lesson in how to keep the revolution alive by transforming leadership, confronting contradiction, and placing politics in command. Weaponized Statesman Series | Mao in Nanning, 1958... Continue Reading →
Sanctioning Genocide: Justice For Palestine In The Land Of Bolivar
Twelve Global South nations met in Bogotá to impose sanctions on Israel, declaring its assault on Gaza a genocide. Their six-point plan targets arms, trade, and state complicity—moving beyond rhetoric to enforcement. Rooted in anti-colonial tradition, the Hague Group signals a shift toward decolonized international law. This is not protest—it’s power reclaimed, and a warning:... Continue Reading →
Manufactured Consent, Measured Decline: How Pew and the AP Manage the Optics of Empire’s Fall
As U.S. global credibility collapses under the weight of its own violence, Pew polls and Associated Press narratives step in to soothe the liberal conscience and reframe revolt as a perception glitch. But the world has moved on—and it's not looking back. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information July 18, 2025 Narrative Management in a... 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 →
If You Can’t Join ’Em, Beat ’Em: China, the WTO, and the Empire’s Double Standard
China entered the U.S.-led global economy and rose through production, not plunder. But success without submission was never part of the deal. Now the empire cries foul—not because China broke the rules, but because it refused to stay colonized by them. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | July 15, 2025When the Empire Writes Its... 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 →