Bandung as a Weapon, Not a MemoryBy "Booby" Bolden, Weaponized Information (WI) | April 2025This essay is written as a comradely engagement with Dossier No. 87, "The Bandung Spirit", published by the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research in April 2025.At Weaponized Information, we draw deeply from the work of Tricontinental, Black Agenda Report, and other... Continue Reading →
Colonial Costs of Capital: Stellantis Layoffs, Hyper-Imperialist Tariffs, and the War on Workers from Toluca to Toledo
Tariffs, layoffs, and empire: when capital recalibrates, it’s the workers who bleed.Weaponized Information | April 9, 2025The multinational auto giant Stellantis—maker of Jeep, Chrysler, and Ram—is furloughing 900 workers in the U.S. and temporarily idling plants in Canada and Mexico. The corporate press is painting this as an unfortunate but temporary hiccup in response to... Continue Reading →
Netanyahu Comes to Washington: Imperial Theater, Zionist Mythmaking, and the Ghost of Gaza
Netanyahu didn’t come to negotiate—he came to tighten the noose on Gaza with empire’s blessing. Weaponized Information | April 9, 2025 Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington not to make peace, not to de-escalate, and certainly not to confront reality—but to perform. To entrench a narrative. To sit at the heart of empire and whisper into... Continue Reading →
Dollar Diplomacy and Debt Obedience: Japan Won’t Touch Its Chains
From occupied economy to imperial banker—how postwar Japan was absorbed into the U.S. financial order. Weaponized Information | April 9, 2025 The U.S. slapped another round of tariffs on Japanese goods this week—Trump’s latest shot in the ongoing trade war that’s more about imperial recalibration than fair economics. And how did Japan respond? With deferral.... Continue Reading →
Redlines: April 9, 2025
Daily revolutionary dispatches from the frontlines of global class war, settler empire, and technofascist recalibration. Africa Meningitis in Northern Nigeria As Nigeria faces a deadly meningitis outbreak claiming over 150 lives, mostly children, U.S. and EU austerity-driven aid cuts continue to sabotage African public health sovereignty. This is not a humanitarian crisis—it’s an engineered vulnerability... Continue Reading →
Ho Was No Hoe: The Peasant Revolutionary Who Defeated Empire
The Man Who Beat the West “Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom.” — Ho Chi Minh The West has a habit of rewriting history to make itself feel better. So when a poor peasant revolutionary from Vietnam outsmarted, outlasted, and outfought not one, but two global empires—France and the United States—they had to... Continue Reading →
Mexico Isn’t a Warzone for Rent: Sheinbaum Tells Washington to Keep Its Drones to Itself
From counterinsurgency to border sovereignty: Latin America redraws the imperial line.Redline | April 8, 2025 | NORTH AMERICAThe United States has a simple formula for foreign policy: create the problem, ignore the cause, and offer war as the cure. This week, Washington tried the old script again—floating the idea of launching drone strikes against drug... Continue Reading →
Mao Was No Monster: Revolution, Power, and the Peasant Road to Socialism
Why Mao Still Haunts the Empire “The Chinese people have stood up!” — Mao Zedong, 1949 To the ruling class, Mao Zedong is not just a villain—he is an existential threat. More than half a century after his death, his image still triggers fear, loathing, and slander across the capitalist world. From liberal think tanks... Continue Reading →
Trump Card: The Inauguration of Technofascism and the Political Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr
As the United States observes another Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we're reminded of the good doctor — the so-called "dreamer," whose legacy is carefully massaged and packaged to fit a palatable, mainstream narrative. The sanitized King we hear about from politicians and corporate media is a shadow of the man who, in his final... Continue Reading →
The Inauguration of Technofascism
In the theater of capitalist spectacle, the coronation of Donald Trump to his second term as CEO of the capitalist empire is less a democratic transition and more an initiation into the fraternity of the real power brokers. Amidst the shimmering ballrooms and gaudy trappings of the inauguration, one finds not the people’s representatives but... Continue Reading →