Tag: capitalism

Petrodollars and Missiles: U.S.–Israel War, Iran’s Retaliation, and the Gulf’s $6 Trillion Imperial Contradiction

The Economist laments over the Gulf's $6 trillion sovereign wealth as war disrupts its financial stability, but this narrative is a smokescreen. The real story lies in the imperial dynamics that intertwine U.S.-Israeli aggression with Gulf fortunes. Rather than a neutral financial assessment, it presents war as a minor nuisance to elites banking on oil rents. The article flattens the human cost, sidelining migrant laborers and ignoring the root causes of conflict shaped by imperial agendas. Ultimately, this crisis reveals the Gulf's wealth is a tool of empire, not liberation—a stark reminder that war and capital are inexorably linked.

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Gold, Lithium, and the Chains of Empire: Zimbabwe, China, and the Battle to Break the Colonial Economy

The imperial press calls Zimbabwe’s recovery “bizarre,” revealing more about empire’s ideology than Africa’s reality. Beneath the headlines lies a material transformation driven by gold, lithium, labor, and survival within a system built to constrain it. As Zimbabwe pushes toward beneficiation and partners with China, it enters a global struggle over who controls resources, industry,... Continue Reading →

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Settlers in the Wreckage: J. Sakai, Technofascism, and the War for the Future

J. Sakai’s interviews force the U.S. left to confront the settler-colonial foundations it has spent generations avoiding. His analysis exposes the myth of the revolutionary white proletariat, the collapse of liberal illusions, and the expansion of war into every domain of life. But Weaponized Information pushes further, grounding his insights in monopoly finance capital, technofascism,... Continue Reading →

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Apples to Apples: Superexploitation from Orchards to iPhones

What appears to be a comparison between two unrelated commodities—apples picked in U.S. orchards and Apple devices assembled across the Global South—is in fact a comparison between two forms of the same capitalist-imperialist labor regime. In U.S. agriculture, superexploitation is organized through settler-colonial land relations, racialized migrant labor, H-2A dependency, deportability, and the broader coercive... Continue Reading →

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Inside the House of Cards: How Empire Manages Crisis Through Memory, Civility, and Myth

Four former presidents gather under corporate media lights to present democracy as a shared moral inheritance, grounded in unity, civility, and participation. Beneath that performance lies a material history of deregulation, war, surveillance, and repression that produced the very crisis now being discussed. The interview reveals not reflection, but a ruling-class effort to manage legitimacy... Continue Reading →

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Concrete and Control: Imperial Media vs Sovereign Development in the China–Cambodia Energy Nexus

This essay excavates how Western energy media transforms a Cambodian hydropower project into a geopolitical morality play, recoding sovereign development as “Chinese influence.” It reconstructs the material reality beneath that narrative: fuel dependence, state planning, bilateral agreements, regional grid integration, and the political economy of infrastructure. It then reframes the project as a node in... Continue Reading →

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The Return of the State: How Industrial Policy Became a Weapon of Global Power

An emerging “consensus” around industrial policy masks a deeper ideological project disciplining development within the boundaries of global capital. The material reality reveals a world defined by subsidy wars, coercion, and uneven development, where state intervention is already reshaping the global economy. China stands at the center of this contradiction as a socialist-led state navigating... Continue Reading →

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Leverage for Whom?: Bangladesh, Multipolarity, and the Managed Art of Dependence

Asia Times doesn’t just argue for strategy—it reframes dependency as sophistication, urging Bangladesh to negotiate its place in a system it does not control. Beneath the language of leverage lies a material reality of export concentration, external inputs, financial discipline, and geopolitical pressure shaping every move. Multipolarity opens space—but only within limits, where new alignments... Continue Reading →

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Africa Against the World Market: Hosea Jaffe, Imperialism, and the Long Struggle for Liberation

A Weaponized Intellects review of A History of Africa that excavates Hosea Jaffe’s uncompromising analysis of colonialism, class formation, and imperial domination—situating his intervention within the liberation struggles of his time and assessing its enduring relevance for understanding Africa, the world system, and the unfinished project of revolutionary transformation today. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized... Continue Reading →

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