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 →
Towards a New Political Science: Politics as the Science of Power
A rupture with procedural political science and canonical abstraction, this essay reconstructs politics as the scientific study of power—how it is accumulated, organized, enforced, and resisted—drawing on revolutionary praxis, settler colonial history, and imperial crisis to redefine what political theory is, who produces it, and what it is for. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information... Continue Reading →
No Kings: Liberal Rituals, Imperial Power, and the Crisis of American Legitimacy
How the ruling class staged a mass protest to save the presidency—not dismantle it—and why a real “No Kings” movement must break the throne, not defend it.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | October 22, 2025Rituals for a Throne: How “No Kings” Became a Crown-Saving CeremonyThey told the country a stirring tale: on October 18,... 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 Enemy Within: Trump, Lawfare, and the Criminalization of Antifascism
The so-called “antifa terrorism” charges in Texas expose a deeper truth: the empire’s legal and media institutions are being fused into a technofascist apparatus of control. The war on terror has come home. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | October 17, 2025 The Manufacture of Domestic Terror: Reuters as Lawfare Apparatus On October 16,... Continue Reading →
From Red-Baiting to Brain-Rot: Kamala Harris, Trump, and the Collapse of U.S. Political Discourse
How the ruling class empties words of meaning to keep the people confused, divided, and docileBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | September 23, 2025The Hill, Harris, and the New Language of NonsenseOn Monday night, Kamala Harris went on MSNBC to warn the nation that Donald Trump is nothing less than a “communist dictator.” The... Continue Reading →
Capitalism, Plutocracy, and the Struggle for Real Democracy
Why democracy cannot coexist with capitalism, and why socialism alone makes it possibleBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | September 23, 2025The Mirage of Democracy Under CapitalismThey tell us we live in a democracy. They wave ballots in our faces, hold up constitutions like sacred scripture, and remind us of the “freedom” to choose between... Continue Reading →
U.S. Cognitive Warfare and the Rise of Technofascism
A WI review of China’s Colonization of the Mind white paper, exposing how Washington weaponizes propaganda, algorithms, and culture as the nervous system of empire. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | September 20, 2025 A War Without Smoke, A Battle Over Consciousness The Chinese think tank that put out Colonization of the Mind is... Continue Reading →