This review of The Economic War Against Cuba by Salim Lamrani excavates the historical architecture of the U.S. blockade and reinterprets it through the present conjuncture, revealing it not as a failed Cold War relic but as an evolving system of imperial economic warfare. Moving from trade embargo to extraterritorial coercion to full-spectrum energy siege,... Continue Reading →
Kill Anything That Moves: Excavating the Hidden Logic of America’s War in Vietnam
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 →
Blackout and Blockade: Empire’s War on Cuba and the Cracks in the American Pole
As U.S. imperialism tightens its grip on the hemisphere through economic warfare, Cuba stands at the front line—where the struggle between domination and sovereign development, between imperial command and emerging multipolar possibility, is being fought in real time. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | March 17, 2026 When a Siege Learns to Speak the... Continue Reading →
The Prince Without a Crown: Gramsci’s Blueprint for Power in the Age of Managed Dissent
This review excavates “The Modern Prince” as Gramsci’s prison-forged answer to the West’s revolutionary stall: why fortified capitalism survives crisis through consent, institutions, and “common sense.” It reconstructs his core strategic arsenal—collective will, hegemony, war of position, and the party as the organized brain of the oppressed—against the fantasies of spontaneity and the dead-end of... 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 →
Malcolm X and the Making of a Revolutionary Internationalist
From colonial violence in the American Midwest to the global battlefields of Africa and Asia, Malcolm’s life traces the sharpening of Black consciousness under empire. His final years mark not moderation but expansion — from religious nationalism to human rights insurgency and anti-imperialist alignment. This essay follows the dialectical arc of his transformation and the... Continue Reading →
Message to MAGA: Wall Street’s Fake Rebellion and the War on the Working Class
This essay is a direct political intervention into the crisis of working-class consciousness inside a settler-colonial empire in decline. It argues that the anger animating the MAGA movement is real—rooted in decades of deindustrialization, wage stagnation, debt, farm foreclosure, and the slow collapse of social life—but that this anger has been deliberately misdirected by monopoly... Continue Reading →
Santa Marta Rises: The III Social Summit and the Struggle for a Sovereign Hemisphere
A Weaponized Information Report on the III Cumbre Social de los Pueblos de América Latina y el Caribe — Where the peoples of the continent gathered to defend the Zone of Peace, advance desdollarization, secure food sovereignty, and confront the ongoing imperial restructuring of the United States. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | November... Continue Reading →
The Political Thought of Joseph Stalin: Europe’s Last Revolutionary or the First Post-Western Marxist?
A Weaponized Intellects review of Erik van Ree'sThe Political Thought of Joseph Stalin: A Study in Twentieth-Century Revolutionary Patriotism — exploring how van Ree’s attempt to reclaim Stalin for the Western tradition instead exposes the end of Europe’s monopoly on Marxism and the birth of a global, anti-imperialist modernity. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Intellects... Continue Reading →
The Black Jacobins: When the Wretched Became the Vanguard of History
Weaponized Intellects Book Review: October Revolution Series | By: Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | November 1, 2025The Atlantic Furnace: Where Capital Was Born in ChainsBefore Marx could write of capital, it had to be born. And it was not born in Manchester or Birmingham, but in the furnaces of the Caribbean—on the sugar plantations... Continue Reading →