The ancient Chinese concept of the Mandate of Heaven was never superstition — it was a theory of political legitimacy rooted in material life, popular welfare, and historical judgment. This essay revives that framework as a weapon of analysis, comparing a United States empire that rules through coercion, sanctions, and decline management with a Chinese... Continue Reading →
Message to MAGA: Wall Street’s Fake Rebellion and the War on the Working Class
This essay is a direct political intervention into the crisis of working-class consciousness inside a settler-colonial empire in decline. It argues that the anger animating the MAGA movement is real—rooted in decades of deindustrialization, wage stagnation, debt, farm foreclosure, and the slow collapse of social life—but that this anger has been deliberately misdirected by monopoly... Continue Reading →
Iran Under Hybrid War: Sanctions, Sabotage, Terror Proxies, and the Long Siege Against Sovereignty
A forensic reconstruction of how sanctions, sabotage, terror proxies, narrative warfare, and regional forward bases have converged into a full-spectrum hybrid war against Iran — and why the January 2026 unrest is not a spontaneous crisis, but the latest front in a decades-long campaign to break an independent state.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information |... Continue Reading →
Posting Empire: Trump 2.0 and the Open Turn to Colonial Rule
How Trump’s Social Media Declarations Signal the Geopolitical, Economic, and Strategic Architecture of Fortress America and the American PoleBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | January 12, 2026When Empire Posts Its Intentions There are moments when the empire speaks in polished paragraphs—through white papers, summit communiqués, and the priestly language of “shared values.” And then... 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 →
Capital Unmasked: How Exploitation Disappears While Domination Deepens
This Weaponized Intellects review of Capital, Volume III is the third strike in our front-to-back reconstruction of Marx’s trilogy. If you haven’t read the first two reviews, start there:Capital as Crime Scene: How Marx Dissects the Social Machinery of Exploitation — Volume ICapital Never Rests: Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume II and the Circulation of Exploitation... Continue Reading →
Trump, Greenland, and the Return of Territorial Empire
An empire tries to blame one man for what its strategy requires. The Arctic is revealed as a military node, an extractive frontier, and a colonial question. Beneath alliance etiquette, imperial authority demands control, not cooperation. From Greenland to the Global South, resistance exposes the system speaking plainly. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information |... Continue Reading →
The Quiet Return of the Gun: Japan, the United States, and the Quiet Normalization of War
An Associated Press report presents Japan’s remilitarization as reluctant self-defense rather than a political choice shaped by power. Beneath the calm language, constitutional erosion and alliance discipline are reframed as common sense. Placed in historical and geopolitical context, Japan’s military buildup appears as a reassignment of roles within a U.S.-led imperial order in crisis. Against... 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 →