"Truth Is On The Side Of the Oppressed." – Malcolm X
Redlines is a daily political digest from Weaponized Information. It cuts through the noise to reveal the fractures and fault lines of the global capitalist-imperialist system. These are not just headlines—they are coordinates in the unfolding struggle for human liberation. Africa Congo in Doha, Not Kinshasa: While Congo bleeds from imperialist-backed insurgency, its so-called peace... Continue Reading →
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 →
Criminalizing dissent to protect democracy: the technofascist logic of the new ruling class. Weaponized Information | April 9, 2025 In the grand theater of American politics, the latest act features the Trump administration and its Republican cohorts orchestrating a symphony of anti-protest legislation. This isn't merely a domestic affair; it's a manifestation of the colonial... Continue Reading →
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 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 →
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 →
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 →
Algorithmic repression, settler panic, and the empire’s new digital front line Redline | April 8, 2025 | UNITED STATES They used to need men in suits with wiretaps. Now all they need is Elon Musk, a chatbot, and a few billion lines of code. According to recent reports, Musk’s DOGE—yes, that’s the official name of... Continue Reading →
Tariffs, annexation, and the Arctic chokepoint—welcome to the empire’s northern frontier. Redline | April 8, 2025 | NORTH AMERICA When Donald Trump said he might annex Canada, liberal pundits chuckled. But empires don’t joke. They predict. This week, the Canadian government announced that its retaliatory tariffs—25% duties on a range of U.S.-made automobiles—will go into... Continue Reading →
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 →
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