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 →
Fortress America and the Oil Ultimatum: Venezuela, Hyper-Imperialism, and the Open Consolidation of the American Pole
This essay argues that Trump 2.0 marks the open phase of U.S. hyper-imperialism, where coercion replaces consent and hemispheric dominance is enforced without disguise. Using Venezuela as the central case, it traces how leader abduction, naval encirclement, oil custodianship, and legal warfare form a consolidated strategy to subordinate sovereign states to the American Pole under... Continue Reading →
When Empire Kidnaps and the Left Blinks: Alex Callinicos, Venezuela, and the Politics of Conditional Anti-Imperialism
In his January 6, 2026 article in Socialist Worker, Alex Callinicos condemns the U.S. seizure of Venezuela’s president as a brutal assertion of hemispheric dominance, while simultaneously advancing a line that blames the Bolivarian process itself for its vulnerability. This essay takes Callinicos’ argument seriously—and then dismantles it—showing how a rhetoric of anti-imperialism can reproduce... Continue Reading →
From Sanctions to Shackles: The Kidnapping of President Maduro and the Consolidation of the American Pole
How the American Pole escalated from sanctions to abduction—and why sovereignty survived the attempt at decapitation By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | January 3, 2026The Day the Monroe Doctrine Spoke in Plain EnglishThere are moments when empire stops dressing itself up. The usual costumes—“democracy promotion,” “human rights,” “counter-narcotics,” “regional stability”—fall off, and what remains... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
Narco-Terror vs. Sovereignty: The U.S. Regime-Change War on Venezuela
The empire claims it’s fighting drug cartels. In truth, Trump 2.0 has resurrected the Monroe Doctrine—weaponizing the “war on drugs” to recolonize the hemisphere, forge an American Pole of power, and crush the Bolivarian Revolution standing in its way.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | October 17, 2025Empire’s Mask: The Stage, the Stakes, and the... Continue Reading →
The Empire of “Peace”: María Corina Machado, the Nobel Prize, and the Long War Against Venezuela
How the Nobel Peace Prize became another front in Washington’s hybrid war — turning coup plotters into saints of “democracy” and laundering regime change through the language of peace. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | October 10, 2025 The Empire’s Peace They called it a victory for peace. Cameras flashed, diplomats smiled, and somewhere... Continue Reading →
National Self-Defense in the Age of Multipolarity
From Libya’s Ruins to Venezuela’s Resolve — How the Global South Is Relearning the Art of SovereigntyBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | October 2025The Return of Armed SovereigntyThe myth of a “rules-based international order” has finally collapsed under the weight of its own hypocrisy. For three decades, Washington and its junior partners cloaked naked... Continue Reading →
The Other Side: Venezuela Exposes a DEA False Flag in the Caribbean
When the empire plants cocaine to frame a nation, silence from Western media is not omission but complicity. Venezuela’s interception of nearly four tons of Colombian cocaine tore the mask from a U.S. plot and affirmed the clarity of revolutionary truth.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | September 20, 2025When the Empire Plants Cocaine, the... Continue Reading →