Empire vs. Sekou Odinga: Counterinsurgency, Community Power, and the War for Black Liberation (1944–2024)

Jamaica, Queens forged a revolutionary in the shadow of Malcolm X. The Black Panther Party built dual power — and the state answered with disruption. Underground struggle met federal conspiracy and thirty-three years of captivity. Elderhood returned him to a new generation still facing the same empire. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | Black... 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 →

Tunis Campbell and the Black Republic That White Power Destroyed

Born free in a slave republic, Campbell became an architect of Black self-rule after emancipation. On Georgia’s Sea Islands, freedpeople built land-based democracy before federal power restored white property. Rising to state leadership, he was criminalized as Reconstruction turned into counterrevolution. His life reveals Reconstruction as an unfinished revolution over land, labor, and power. Prince... Continue Reading →

The Shadow That Built the World: Rudi Batzell and the Racial Foundations of Labor

Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery: Global Inequality, Racial Boundaries, and the Rise of Unions in American and British Capitalism, 1870–1929By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Intellects Book Review | Weaponized Information | October 18, 2025Introduction: Labor’s Long ShadowRudi Batzell, a historian of capitalism and labor at the University of Chicago, has written one of... Continue Reading →

Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Capitalism’s Baptism in Blood

This "Columbus Day," we bring you a special edition Weaponized Intellects Book Review that turns the holiday inside out with John Henrik Clarke’s Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust—a revolutionary autopsy of empire. Clarke tears apart the myth of “discovery,” exposing how Europe’s feudal decay and capitalist hunger fused into genocide, slavery, and global plunder.... Continue Reading →

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