How Britain’s opium gunboats shattered China’s agrarian order, dismembered its sovereignty, and inaugurated the long colonial century that revolution would one day buryBy Pablo Katari | Weaponized Information| July 26, 2025Exchange as Pretext, War as MechanismThe circulation of commodities requires peace; the expansion of capital requires war. In the case of China, this contradiction found... Continue Reading →
Steel and Saltwater: The Ghosts of Empire in the South China Sea
How Empire Wrote the Law of the Sea in Blood, Branded Resistance as Aggression, and Turned the South China Sea into a Battleground of Hegemony and Hope By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | July 11, 2025Where Empires Drew Their Maps in Blood The South China Sea didn’t become a battlefield by nature—it was made... Continue Reading →
Firewall for Empire: Vietnam’s Cutter Diplomacy and the Class Struggle at Sea
The Pentagon hands off warships, Newsweek hands off narratives, and a comprador class signs away sovereignty—all in time for the 30th anniversary of “normalized” relations By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | June 21, 2025 Ink Over Napalm: Newsweek’s Cutter Diplomacy and the Manufacture of Consent Newsweek’s breezy dispatch about Washington “growing a defense partnership... Continue Reading →