The Intercept’s account of Trump’s Venezuela “success” exposes colonial features of the new order, but still stops short of naming the imperial body on the table. Beneath the language of reform and normalization lies a forced recalibration: oil, minerals, law, diplomacy, and public finance are being reorganized under duress while the Bolivarian state struggles to... Continue Reading →
Author, Authority, and Empire: How “Authoritarian” Became Political Science’s Favorite Weapon Against Mass Power
This essay is part of Weaponized Information’s larger project to forge a new discipline of political science—one that treats politics as the scientific study of power: how it is accumulated, organized, enforced, and resisted. In “Towards a New Political Science: Politics as the Science of Power”, we broke with procedural political science and its canon... Continue Reading →
Siege by Starvation: Gaza and the Colonial Logic of Famine
Gaza is not a humanitarian crisis. It is a laboratory of imperial famine, where the settler state starves a people with U.S. funding and European silence. What they call aid, we call ammunition. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | May 12, 2025 I. When the Colonizer’s Press Whispers the Truth PBS NewsHour has always... Continue Reading →