Tag: economic war

Reuters’ “Market Story” and the American Pole: PetroChina, Venezuelan Oil, and the Siege That Calls Itself Trade

Reuters sells custodial plunder as a pricing issue, turning blockade into “market caution.” We restore the missing record: seizures, supervision, and the re-routing of Venezuelan oil revenue through imperial hands. We reframe the contradiction as doctrine—Fortress America tightening hemispheric command as multipolar escape routes multiply. We close with a call to organize: break the information... Continue Reading →

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Lutnick, Carney, and the Politics of Permission: How USMCA Discipline Turns Trade Into Obedience

A U.S. trade official scolds Canada for stepping outside its assigned lane, revealing how power speaks through “commentary.” The facts show a bounded policy shift unfolding inside an unstable trade and industrial landscape the story refuses to name. Placed in historical and imperial context, the outrage reads less as economics than as enforcement of hierarchy... Continue Reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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Strangled In The Cradle: Sanctions, Siege, and the Imperial War on Socialist Development

How imperialism strangled socialist revolutions through sanctions, blockades, and economic warfare—and why socialism was never judged on its own terms, but only under siege. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 24, 2025The Alibi They Hand You When They Don’t Want You to Ask Who’s Holding the Knife“Socialism never worked anywhere.” You’ve heard it... Continue Reading →

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Trump, the U.S. Navy, and the BBC’s Gunboat Narrative

How “Narco-Terrorism” Became the Alibi for Blockade, Sanctions, and the Collision Between U.S. Maritime Power and Venezuelan Sovereignty By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 18, 2025 When Criminality Explains Everything and War Explains Nothing Our target is the BBC News report, “Venezuela denounces Trump’s order for ship blockade as ‘warmongering threats’” The article... Continue Reading →

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Making America Great Again: The Tariff Wall and the Sanction Noose

How technofascism enforces capitalist decline through economic siege at home and abroadBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information| July 23, 2025Of Steel and Chains: The Coercive Logic of Economic PowerIn the bedtime stories of capitalism, tariffs are framed as patriotic tools—guardians of domestic industry, defenders of national sovereignty. Sanctions, we’re told, are moral instruments—punishments reserved for... Continue Reading →

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Diplomacy by Siege: Sanctions, Media, and the Long War on the Cuban Revolution

How imperial propaganda manufactures consent for economic warfare—and how Cuba’s defiance exposes the lie By Prince KaponeJuly 13, 2025Trial by Headline: When Empire Writes the Verdict Before the CrimeOn July 12, 2025, the Chicago Tribune ran a wire-fed dispatch headlined “US sanctions Cuban President Díaz-Canel and other officials for human rights violations”. The byline belongs... Continue Reading →

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