In The Political Economy of Growth, Paul A. Baran dismantles the myth that growth is neutral or benevolent, exposing it as a class project rooted in surplus extraction and imperial power. He shows how monopoly capitalism turns productivity into waste and development into stagnation, both at home and across the colonized world. Against liberal economics... Continue Reading →
Greenland and the Architecture of Fortress America
How U.S. Homeland Defense, Arctic Chokepoints, and Critical Minerals Are Converging into a New Territorial Imperial ProjectBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | January 11, 2026Greenland Was Never a Joke — It Was a Map of Empire Speaking Out LoudWhen Trump first floated the idea of the United States “acquiring” Greenland, plenty of people laughed... Continue Reading →
Socialism Under Siege: Civil War, Degeneration, and the Fight to Keep Power in the Hands of the Masses
Socialism has never developed in peace. Forced to build under permanent imperial encirclement, every revolution has faced the same central contradiction: how to defend power without allowing administration to replace politics and coercion to substitute for mass legitimacy. Tracing this struggle from 1917 through Mao and into post-Mao China, this essay argues that siege is... Continue Reading →
Capitalism Did Not Float In on the Market: Chibber, Jacobin, and the Political Function of Western Marxism
How Western Marxism Turns Colonial Violence into “History Theory” to Save the Settler OrderBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 14, 2025When “History Theory” Becomes an Alibi for Empire This essay is a polemical intervention into a recent Jacobin interview with NYU sociologist Vivek Chibber, published as a transcript of an episode of Confronting... Continue Reading →
Apocalypse Becomes Regime: Gerald Horne and the Seventeenth-Century Birth of the White Republic
In The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism, Gerald Horne shows how seventeenth-century England fused racial slavery, Indigenous genocide, and corporate empire into the blueprint for the U.S. settler state — a history revolutionaries must grasp if we intend to overthrow the world that system built. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | November 30, 2025 From... Continue Reading →
The Dawning of the Apocalypse: Gerald Horne and The Long 16th Century
This Weaponized Intellects review takes Gerald Horne’s The Dawning of the Apocalypse as what it is: a devastating, must-read indictment of the long sixteenth century that built the American settler empire we’re still trapped inside.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | November 29, 2025When Race Replaced God: Europe Prepares the ApocalypseGerald Horne opens The Dawning... Continue Reading →
The Inequality Gospel of the G20: When Empire Pretends to Repent
How the Managers of Global Capitalism Diagnose the Crisis They Created—and Offer Solutions That Protect Their Power By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | November 25, 2025 When the Arsonists Write the Handbook on Fire Let’s start with the obvious, comrades: there is something darkly comic about the G20 commissioning a grand report on global... Continue Reading →
China’s “Year of Temptation”: How The Economist Manufactures Fear in an Age of Imperial Decline
A Weaponized Information excavation of Western propaganda, global power shifts, and the struggle for a just multipolar world.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | November 17, 2025Temptation as a Weapon: How the Economist Manufactures China’s “Hubris” The point of departure for this excavation is an article published by The Economist, “China will be tempted to... Continue Reading →
October 1917: A Century Later — Samir Amin and the Return of the World Revolution
Samir Amin’s October 1917: Revolution, A Century Later is both a commemoration and a battle cry — a lucid Marxist-Leninist reflection on the world-historic rupture of 1917 and the unfinished struggle it ignited. Written in the twilight of the neoliberal era, the book reasserts the global and anti-imperialist meaning of the October Revolution, reminding us... 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 →