W.E.B. Du Bois and the Long Arc of Radicalization

From Talented Tenth Idealism to Communist Internationalism, Du Bois’s Life Exposes the Color Line as a Global System, White Labor’s Imperial Bargain, Reconstruction as Crushed Revolution, and the Unfinished Struggle Against Colonial Capitalism.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | Black History Matters Series | February 11, 2026I. A Child of Emancipation, Raised in the Shadow... Continue Reading →

Growth Without Development: How Capitalism Produces Abundance, Manufactures Poverty, and Calls It Progress

In The Political Economy of Growth, Paul A. Baran dismantles the myth that growth is neutral or benevolent, exposing it as a class project rooted in surplus extraction and imperial power. He shows how monopoly capitalism turns productivity into waste and development into stagnation, both at home and across the colonized world. Against liberal economics... Continue Reading →

How to Kill a Nation: Michael Parenti and the Imperial Instruction Manual — Humanitarian War, Economic Siege, and the Machinery of Regime Destruction

This review reads Michael Parenti’s To Kill a Nation as a field manual for modern empire, tracing how Yugoslavia was destroyed not by accident or ancient hatred but through a disciplined sequence of epistemological warfare, economic siege, political fragmentation, demonization, humanitarian pretext, and infrastructural annihilation, culminating in privatization, permanent dependency, and historical amnesia. By following... Continue Reading →

Empire’s Favorite Lie: Michael Parenti, Anti-Communism, and the Moral Alibi of Capital

Anti-communism is not an opinion but an environment. The communist is demonized so empire can call itself innocent. Liberal reason disciplines dissent more effectively than repression. Vietnam exposes anti-communism as an ideology that requires bodies. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Intellects Book Review | Weaponized Information | January 28, 2026 I. When Anti-Communism Becomes the... 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 →

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