The crisis of imperialism and the war on the poor — from fentanyl to fossil fuels, from blockades to bombsBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | September 25, 2025IntroductionGustavo Petro walked into the UN and did what most heads of state never dare: he said out loud what everyone already knows. The bombs that fall... 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 →
Food for Profit: The Ruling Class Capture of the Global Food System
Part VII – Food for Profit: The Ruling Class Capture of the Global Food SystemBy Weaponized Information Editorial CommitteeIntroduction: Not Broken, But OwnedThere is a popular belief that the global food system is broken. That hunger persists because of inefficiencies, misaligned incentives, or unfortunate market externalities. But the truth is sharper and more violent: the... 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 →
“Fight Alongside the People—and Die with the People”: Fidel Castro’s 1994 Havana Address and the Reassertion of Revolutionary Legitimacy
Weaponized Statecraft Series | In Commemoration of Fidel Castro’s Birthday By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | August 13, 2025 Part I. Revolutionary Presence in the Midst of Crisis “If rocks were being thrown and shots were being fired, I wanted to receive my share.” In the summer of 1994, as the so-called “Maleconazo” protests... Continue Reading →
“Let the Revolution Always Be Ready to Begin Again”: Fidel Castro’s 1965 Santa Clara Speech and the Strategy of Revolutionary Permanence
Weaponized Statecraft Series | In Commemoration of Fidel Castro's BirthdayBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | August 13, 2025Revolution is Not a Spectacle—It is a Verdict“There is something that is not seen in cement or lumber or in stone, and that is what is built among the people, the education received by the people, the... Continue Reading →
Exorcising the Ghost of Malcolm: Class Struggle, Colonial Liberation, and the Failure of Western Marxism
Ghosts in Our Blood exhumes the internationalist, anti-imperialist, and Grenadian roots of Malcolm X, smashing the museum glass of liberal iconography and Western Marxist distortion to return him to the world struggle that claimed him.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | August 12, 2025I. Bringing Malcolm Back to Earth — Out of the Museum, Away... Continue Reading →
Labor Power: Alienation, Extraction, and the Reproduction of Life
By Prince Kapone, Weaponized Information Labor Is the Bridge Between Soil and Society Food does not emerge from soil alone. It must be coaxed, cultivated, and carried into being by human labor. Labor is the active force that transforms nature—not just for profit, but for survival. Yet under capitalism, this labor is not honored, supported,... Continue Reading →
Strike the Empire at Its Weakest Point: A Revolutionary Review of Racism and the Class Struggle by James Boggs
Originally published in 1970 at the height of Black radical insurgency, James Boggs’s Racism and the Class Struggle delivers a merciless indictment of American capitalism as a settler-colonial system sustained by the racial division of labor. Drawing from his own experience as a Black autoworker and Marxist theorist, Boggs exposes the limitations of white Marxism,... Continue Reading →
Seven Fronts of Liberation: The Bolivarian Revolution and the Global Struggle for Socialist Sovereignty
How Venezuela’s 7 Transformations Are Confronting Empire, Constructing Socialism, and Teaching the World to Fight By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information July 31, 2025 Why Venezuela Matters in the Age of Empire and Collapse At the dawn of the 21st century, when neoliberalism strutted across the globe declaring the end of history, one nation dared... Continue Reading →