The Independent recasts the DPRK–Belarus treaty as suspicious alignment while obscuring sanctions, war, and coercion shaping both states. The actual record shows concrete agreements across food, healthcare, industry, and education built through ongoing diplomatic coordination. These developments emerge from Korea’s imposed partition, Belarus’s post-Soviet Western pressure, and their shared positioning alongside Russia in the Ukraine... 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 →
The Declaration of Hyper-Imperialist Recalibration: Trump 2.0’s 2025 National Security Strategy and the Consolidation of the American Pole
Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy reveals a wounded empire abandoning global supremacy for hemispheric domination, fusing militarized industrial policy, border fascism, and digital control into the blueprint for a fortified American Pole. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 8, 2025 When an Empire Starts Explaining Itself Every once in a while, an empire... Continue Reading →
Fists Against the World: The Boxer Rebellion and the War for China’s Soul
Read the previous essays in this series:Silver Against the Dragon: China, the World Market, and the Long Prelude to the Opium War Primitive Accumulation by Narcotic: The Opium Wars and the Forcible Integration of China into the World Market The Heavenly Commune: Taiping Rebellion and the Spectre of Peasant Communism From the ashes of the... Continue Reading →
Calm Is Not Surrender: Xi–Trump, Strategic Patience, and the Long War Against Empire
This was not a reset. It was not a détente. It was the empire asking for time, and a rising world civilization choosing not to rush. The United States performs strength to hide its decline. China exercises restraint because history is moving in its direction. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | November 1, 2025... Continue Reading →
The Party That Wouldn’t Break: Kim Jong Un and the Dialectic of Socialist Permanence
At the 80th anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Kim Jong Un reasserts the moral and political grammar of a revolution that endures by self-correction, unity, and defiance—transforming siege into pedagogy, hardship into method, and permanence into proof of socialism’s vitality.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | October 11, 2025Pyongyang, October 10 — The... 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 →
Framing Sovereignty as Senility: Excavating the BBC’s Narrative on Ahn Hak-sop
How imperial propaganda turns testimony into tragedy, and why Ahn Hak-sop’s final walk demands we join living struggles for Korean sovereignty By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | September 1, 2025 Framing Sovereignty as Senility: Excavating the BBC’s Narrative on Ahn Hak-sop The story the British press wants us to absorb is simple: a frail... Continue Reading →
The Geography of Lies: Samir Amin and the Assassination of Eurocentrism
A Revolutionary Review of Eurocentrism: Modernity, Religion, and Democracy by Samir Amin. Eurocentrism is not a flaw—it’s the software of global capitalism. Samir Amin detonates its ideological core, exposing how it serves empire, whitewashes history, and infects even the Marxist tradition. This review is not just critique—it’s insurgency.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | August... Continue Reading →