A Weaponized Intellects excavation of Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution: Hugo Chávez Talks to Marta Harnecker, tracing how popular rupture collides with institutions, empire, class power, and the unfinished task of building a revolution that can survive its own victories By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | January 18, 2026 A Revolution That Refuses the Script... Continue Reading →
Fortress America and the Oil Ultimatum: Venezuela, Hyper-Imperialism, and the Open Consolidation of the American Pole
This essay argues that Trump 2.0 marks the open phase of U.S. hyper-imperialism, where coercion replaces consent and hemispheric dominance is enforced without disguise. Using Venezuela as the central case, it traces how leader abduction, naval encirclement, oil custodianship, and legal warfare form a consolidated strategy to subordinate sovereign states to the American Pole under... Continue Reading →
When Empire Kidnaps and the Left Blinks: Alex Callinicos, Venezuela, and the Politics of Conditional Anti-Imperialism
In his January 6, 2026 article in Socialist Worker, Alex Callinicos condemns the U.S. seizure of Venezuela’s president as a brutal assertion of hemispheric dominance, while simultaneously advancing a line that blames the Bolivarian process itself for its vulnerability. This essay takes Callinicos’ argument seriously—and then dismantles it—showing how a rhetoric of anti-imperialism can reproduce... Continue Reading →
Socialism of the 21st Century: Hugo Chavez on the Bolivarian Revolution and Socialism
Hugo Chávez’s notebook for militants: party-building, revolutionary ethics, and the commune as the material base of people’s powerEdited by Prince Kapone • January 4, 2026Introduction Socialism of the 21st Century is not a memoir, a slogan, or a museum piece. It is a field manual for a revolution under siege — a set of sharp,... Continue Reading →
From Sanctions to Shackles: The Kidnapping of President Maduro and the Consolidation of the American Pole
How the American Pole escalated from sanctions to abduction—and why sovereignty survived the attempt at decapitation By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | January 3, 2026The Day the Monroe Doctrine Spoke in Plain EnglishThere are moments when empire stops dressing itself up. The usual costumes—“democracy promotion,” “human rights,” “counter-narcotics,” “regional stability”—fall off, and what remains... Continue Reading →
Who Owns Venezuela?
Trump’s claim that Venezuela “stole” U.S. oil is not a gaffe or exaggeration—it is an imperial verdict. This essay dismantles that claim by tracing the conflict over Venezuela’s resources through international law, the neoliberal wreckage of the pre-Chávez era, the Bolivarian rupture, Maduro’s Plan de la Patria, and María Corina Machado’s restoration blueprint. What emerges... Continue Reading →
Narco-Terror vs. Sovereignty: The U.S. Regime-Change War on Venezuela
The empire claims it’s fighting drug cartels. In truth, Trump 2.0 has resurrected the Monroe Doctrine—weaponizing the “war on drugs” to recolonize the hemisphere, forge an American Pole of power, and crush the Bolivarian Revolution standing in its way.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | October 17, 2025Empire’s Mask: The Stage, the Stakes, and the... Continue Reading →
The Empire of “Peace”: María Corina Machado, the Nobel Prize, and the Long War Against Venezuela
How the Nobel Peace Prize became another front in Washington’s hybrid war — turning coup plotters into saints of “democracy” and laundering regime change through the language of peace. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | October 10, 2025 The Empire’s Peace They called it a victory for peace. Cameras flashed, diplomats smiled, and somewhere... Continue Reading →
U.S. Attack on Venezuela: Drug War Theater, Imperial War Reality
Washington bombed a Venezuelan boat and rolled warships into the Caribbean, calling it counternarcotics. In truth, it’s a war for oil, sovereignty, and the future of multipolarity. Behind the headlines lies the Monroe Doctrine reborn. The stakes are nothing less than empire’s survival versus a people’s right to be free. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized... Continue Reading →
From Lawfare to Gunboats: How the “Narco-State” Smear Prepares the Battlefield Against Venezuela
The U.S. indictment of Nicolás Maduro was never about drugs. It was the opening shot in a hybrid war—lawfare, sanctions, propaganda, and now destroyers off Venezuela’s coast. Exposing the smear means exposing the empire itself.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | August 26, 2025From Indictments to Destroyers – How a Smear Becomes a War PlanOn... Continue Reading →