Malcolm X reshaped my understanding of America’s racial dynamics, revealing it not as a flawed democracy but as a colonial project steeped in oppression. His teachings led me beyond the shallow understanding of leftist politics to a deeper comprehension of the intertwined struggles against imperialism and capitalism. Each encounter with his work pushed me toward recognizing humanity in the oppressed and the global context of their struggles. Through Malcolm, I learned that true liberation requires a conscious break from inherited identities tied to empire. His evolution mirrors a broader human struggle, challenging us to embrace revolutionary love as an act of transformation, not mere rhetoric.
Census of Collapse: Trump, Technofascism, and the War Against Reality
The Trump regime's assault on federal datasets is a calculated effort to erase reality, obscuring critical information on hunger, pollution, maternal health, and climate disasters. By dismantling public data, the ruling class suppresses the very tools citizens need to challenge systemic failures. Expert narratives dominate discourse, overshadowing the voices of the oppressed who suffer and resist. This isn't just bureaucratic negligence; it's a deliberate strategy to manage perception amidst a crumbling empire. As the regime erases statistics, communities are disarmed and rendered invisible, making the struggle for public knowledge essential to resistance against state control. The battle for data is a battle for truth.
The Colorblind Con Job: How the Supreme Court Makes Black Power Disappear
In a provocative dissection of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against Louisiana's majority-Black district, the article exposes a chilling truth: the very mechanisms meant to ensure voting rights are systematically undermined. NPR's portrayal of this as a mere legal setback pales in comparison to the deeper rot at the heart of American democracy, which has long grappled with the notion of Black political power. This ruling is emblematic of a historical pattern where rights are granted under duress, only to be stealthily reclaimed when they threaten the status quo. It’s not just about losing a voting bloc; it’s about the ongoing struggle for true representation in a system designed to contain it.
The Capitalized Womb: How Slavery Turned Black Women’s Reproduction into American Wealth
JSTOR’s tidy little history lesson reveals something real, but only after liberal scholarship scrubs the auction block clean enough for polite readers. Beneath the archive sits a system that turned rape, forced birth, and hereditary bondage into law, credit, and capital. The real story is not bad science gone astray, but a slave order using... Continue Reading →
You Can’t Bomb Your Way Out of Empire: The Colonial Contradiction, White Radicalism, and the Failure of the Weather Underground
A liberal memoir transforms a history of anti-imperialist rebellion into a story of family inheritance, masking the structural realities of empire and repression. Beneath that narrative lies a system defined by imperial war abroad and counterinsurgency at home, where dissent is managed, surveilled, and neutralized. The Weather Underground emerged from this contradiction, but its turn... Continue Reading →
Erase the Crime, Evade the Debt: Black History Under Siege as Reparations Rise
From Reuters’ managed neutrality to Washington’s cultural rollback and Ghana’s UN challenge, the struggle over memory reveals a deeper battle between imperial erasure and a growing global demand for reparatory justice. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | March 27, 2026 The Cropped Memory of Empire “Ghana's president, in New York, says US is ‘normalizing’... Continue Reading →
Malcolm X and the Making of a Revolutionary Internationalist
From colonial violence in the American Midwest to the global battlefields of Africa and Asia, Malcolm’s life traces the sharpening of Black consciousness under empire. His final years mark not moderation but expansion — from religious nationalism to human rights insurgency and anti-imperialist alignment. This essay follows the dialectical arc of his transformation and the... Continue Reading →
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Long Arc of Radicalization
From Talented Tenth Idealism to Communist Internationalism, Du Bois’s Life Exposes the Color Line as a Global System, White Labor’s Imperial Bargain, Reconstruction as Crushed Revolution, and the Unfinished Struggle Against Colonial Capitalism.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | Black History Matters Series | February 11, 2026I. A Child of Emancipation, Raised in the Shadow... Continue Reading →
Harriet Tubman and the Science of Escape: Maroon Strategy, Labor Rebellion, and the Black Woman Who Turned Slavery Against Itself
Harriet Tubman did not merely flee bondage; she attacked the economic foundations of slavery by organizing collective escape, disrupting the immobilization of Black labor, and later striking directly at Confederate infrastructure in war. Emerging from a regime that depended on the total control of Black women’s bodies, she transformed from exploited worker into disciplined strategist,... Continue Reading →
Fred Hampton and the Revolutionary Meaning of Solidarity
Chicago is shown here not as a northern refuge of progress, but as what it actually was and remains: an internal colony where segregation, poverty, and police occupation shaped Fred Hampton into a revolutionary Marxist with no illusions about the system he was up against. From those conditions came a politics willing to go where... Continue Reading →