How Politico launders militarism into common sense, and how the ruling class sharpens its counterinsurgency state under crisisBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | October 1, 2025The Theater of ObedienceOn September 30, 2025, Politico ran a piece by Irie Sentner and Paul McLeary under the title, “Trump, justifying domestic military action, tells Pentagon leaders to... Continue Reading →
Assata Shakur: Autobiography of Liberation, Indictment of Empire
A 21-Gun Salute to a Revolutionary Who Died Free and Unbroken By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Intellects | September 26, 2025 Assata in the Crosshairs They called her a fugitive, a terrorist, a threat to the republic. The newspapers splashed her face across their pages like a wanted poster, as if she were a bandit... Continue Reading →
Reparations or Nothing: Penny Hess and the Death of Western Marxism
Weaponized Intellects Review of Overturning the Culture of ViolenceBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | September 21, 2025Turning the World Right Side UpPenny Hess’s Overturning the Culture of Violence does not mince words—it announces from the opening lines that neutrality is treason. Hess follows the leadership of Omali Yeshitela and the African People’s Socialist Party,... Continue Reading →
SCO vs. Empire: Multipolar Horizons in a Time of Imperial Decline
From Tianjin to Tehran, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization emerges as a counterweight to U.S. hegemony, exposing the crisis of imperialism and the birth of a multipolar world order. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | September 1, 2025 Dissecting the Wire Service of Empire Christopher Bodeen’s piece for the Associated Press, published on September 1,... Continue Reading →
The Heavenly Commune: Taiping Rebellion and the Spectre of Peasant Communism
Read our previous essays in this series:Silver Against the Dragon: China, the World Market, and the Long Prelude to the Opium WarPrimitive Accumulation by Narcotic: The Opium Wars and the Forcible Integration of China into the World Market From opium-for-silver gunboat “trade” to a peasant commune that abolished rent and defied empire, the Taiping Rebellion... Continue Reading →