This essay is part of Weaponized Information’s larger project to forge a new discipline of political science—one that treats politics as the scientific study of power: how it is accumulated, organized, enforced, and resisted. In “Towards a New Political Science: Politics as the Science of Power”, we broke with procedural political science and its canon... Continue Reading →
When Empire Smiles, Check Your Pockets: The Myth of a Trump–Rodríguez “Reset”
CNN wants the reader to see a new partnership forming in Caracas: a phone call, oil talk, CIA photo-ops, deportations back on schedule. But under siege, smiles are signals—and “warming relations” often means the empire believes it has found a manager, not a partner. We excavate the story’s framing and then trace the concrete leverage... 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 →
Science of Coercion: How Empire Turned Knowledge into a Weapon
A Weaponized Intellects review of Christopher Simpson’s Science of Coercion, exposing the Cold War origins of communication studies as a psychological warfare project, tracing how liberal academia became an auxiliary arm of empire, and recovering this buried history as a weapon for revolutionary struggle in the age of technofascism. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information... Continue Reading →
Towards a New Political Science: Politics as the Science of Power
A rupture with procedural political science and canonical abstraction, this essay reconstructs politics as the scientific study of power—how it is accumulated, organized, enforced, and resisted—drawing on revolutionary praxis, settler colonial history, and imperial crisis to redefine what political theory is, who produces it, and what it is for. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information... Continue Reading →
Who Paid the Pipers? Empire’s Safe Marxism and the War on Revolutionary Consciousness
A Weaponized Intellects review of Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? — exposing Western Marxism as an imperial product, tracing the institutional machinery that manufactures “harmless” radicalism, and reclaiming Marxism as an anti-imperialist weapon for the global working class and colonized nations. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information — Weaponized Intellects Book... Continue Reading →
The Empire Shows Its Teeth Because It Has Lost Its Mask
How U.S. Media Reveals the Machinery of Sabotage and Still Calls It PeaceBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | October 31, 2025How the Story Teaches You What to Feel The article under examination is CNN’s report, “CIA cyberattacks targeting the Maduro regime didn’t satisfy Trump in his first term. Now the U.S. is flexing its... Continue Reading →
Science for Empire, Faith for the Base: The AP and the Crisis of Knowledge in a Dying Empire
How the Associated Press’ “anti-science” investigation conceals an imperial civil war over who controls knowledge—and how the global working class can reclaim it.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | October 23, 2025How AP Stages “Science Under Siege”The Associated Press wants you to know that science is under attack. It tells this story in the familiar... 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 Enemy Within: Trump, Lawfare, and the Criminalization of Antifascism
The so-called “antifa terrorism” charges in Texas expose a deeper truth: the empire’s legal and media institutions are being fused into a technofascist apparatus of control. The war on terror has come home. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | October 17, 2025 The Manufacture of Domestic Terror: Reuters as Lawfare Apparatus On October 16,... Continue Reading →