This review of The Economic War Against Cuba by Salim Lamrani excavates the historical architecture of the U.S. blockade and reinterprets it through the present conjuncture, revealing it not as a failed Cold War relic but as an evolving system of imperial economic warfare. Moving from trade embargo to extraterritorial coercion to full-spectrum energy siege,... Continue Reading →
The Big Payback: Settling Accounts with the Paid Piper of Western Marxism (Part 1)
A ruthless chapter-by-chapter assault on Herbert Marcuse’s Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis, exposing it not as some noble “immanent critique” of actually existing socialism, but as a polished work of Cold War Western Marxist sabotage—an effort to sever Marx from Lenin, dialectics from revolution, and theory from the hard, blood-soaked labor of building socialism under... Continue Reading →
American Theocracy Revisited: Oil, Empire, and the Gospel of Decline
A dissection of how energy dependence, apocalyptic politics, and debt-fueled capitalism fused into a governing logic of U.S. power—and why, nearly two decades later, the contradictions Phillips identified have not resolved but evolved into a harder imperial strategy centered on energy command, infrastructural control, and technofascist crisis management. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information |... Continue Reading →
Endless Holocausts, Endless Empire: Excavating the Violent Logic of American Power
This Weaponized Intellects Book Review dismantles the myth of American innocence by tracing a continuous line from settler genocide and racial slavery to industrial exploitation and global war. It argues that these are not separate injustices but interconnected expressions of a single imperial system, one that reproduces itself through organized violence, ideological cover, and the... Continue Reading →
Kill Anything That Moves: Excavating the Hidden Logic of America’s War in Vietnam
This Weaponized Intellects review enters Nick Turse’s investigation as both a historical excavation and a political indictment. It traces how a counterinsurgency war built on body counts transformed the Vietnamese countryside into a laboratory of industrialized violence. It examines the bureaucratic systems that normalized atrocity and the machinery of denial that later buried the evidence.... Continue Reading →
After the Empire — Before the Collapse
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 →
Axis of Empire: The Coup, the Shah, and the War Against Iranian Sovereignty
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 →
The Architects of Empire: How the Anglo-American Establishment Built the Modern World Order
From Cecil Rhodes’ imperial secret society to the trilateral system that governs global capitalism today, the modern world order did not emerge by accident. It was constructed—patiently, institutionally, and across generations—by networks of bankers, strategists, policymakers, and imperial planners determined to organize power on a planetary scale. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | Weaponized... Continue Reading →
The Prince Without a Crown: Gramsci’s Blueprint for Power in the Age of Managed Dissent
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 →
One Nation Under Hostage: The Epstein Archive and the Anatomy of Elite Power
Whitney Webb did not write a book about a scandal. She wrote about a system. In Volume I, she traces blackmail from the Cold War’s underbelly into the bloodstream of U.S. empire, showing how intelligence agencies, financiers, and organized crime learned to discipline one another through leverage instead of law. In Volume II, Jeffrey Epstein... Continue Reading →