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 →

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 →

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