This Weaponized Intellects review enters Nick Turse’s investigation as both a historical excavation and a political indictment. It traces how a counterinsurgency war built on body counts transformed the Vietnamese countryside into a laboratory of industrialized violence. It examines the bureaucratic systems that normalized atrocity and the machinery of denial that later buried the evidence.... Continue Reading →
After the Empire — Before the Collapse
When Emmanuel Todd wrote After the Empire, Washington still believed it ruled a permanent unipolar world. Todd saw something different: an empire sustained less by production than by financial tribute and military spectacle. Two decades later the contradictions he described—economic dependency, micromilitarism, and ideological decay—have matured into the turbulent transition now reshaping global power.By Prince... Continue Reading →
The United States of America, or the United Empire of Earth?
From settler conquest on the North American continent to a planetary lattice of bases, fleets, satellites, and command zones, the United States has constructed the most extensive military infrastructure in human history. Beneath the language of alliances, deterrence, and security lies a global machine designed to police the colonial world economy. But the very scale... Continue Reading →
Empire’s Last Illusion: When the Colonizers Can No Longer Colonize
The language of “chaos” now coming from European leaders reveals something deeper than geopolitical instability. It reflects the growing panic of a ruling class confronting the limits of a world order built through colonial domination and sustained by imperial power.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | March 11, 2026When Power Begins to Speak in the... Continue Reading →
White Guilt or White Pride? The False Choice That Preserves Empire
“White guilt” shrinks a global system of power into a private mood. Liberal confession mourns history while preserving the machinery of dominance. Reactionary pride weaponizes heritage to harden bloc discipline under multipolar pressure. Beyond shame and nostalgia lies defection from empire and alignment with global liberation.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | February 20, 2026History... Continue Reading →
Carney, NATO, and the War Contractors: How Canada’s “Sovereignty” Pivot Deepens the Military Bloc
The New York Times sells a procurement shift as national independence. The numbers reveal a structural escalation anchored in NATO and continental integration. The pivot redistributes contracts while entrenching a war-oriented political economy. Workers and movements face a choice: defend the arms budget or reorganize production itself.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | February 16,... Continue Reading →
Claudia Jones vs. Empire: Black Communism, White Supremacy, and the War on the Most Exploited
The daughter of Caribbean labor radicalism enters the furnace of U.S. racial capitalism. The Communist Party becomes a battlefield over race, class, and the super-exploitation of Black women. McCarthyism criminalizes Black internationalism and deports a revolutionary. Exile in Britain transforms repression into new insurgent possibility. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | Black History Matters... Continue Reading →
Growth Without Development: How Capitalism Produces Abundance, Manufactures Poverty, and Calls It Progress
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 →
Rearming the Past to Police the Future: Japan, the U.S., and the Return of Empire in the Pacific
How a $70 Billion Defense Budget, Missile-Riddled Islands, and a Manufactured “Security Crisis” Are Rewriting the Map of Asia By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 4, 2025 Budgets, Islands and the Quiet Manufacture of Consent If you just skim the surface of this USNI News piece, it looks like any other routine defense... 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 →