This hearing revealed empire speaking in its managerial voice, not its moral one. Venezuela was treated not as a nation, but as a logistical and political control problem. Bipartisan oversight functioned as maintenance of imperial authority, not restraint upon it. For revolutionaries North and South, the American Pole names the structure we must learn to... Continue Reading →
Reuters’ “Market Story” and the American Pole: PetroChina, Venezuelan Oil, and the Siege That Calls Itself Trade
Reuters sells custodial plunder as a pricing issue, turning blockade into “market caution.” We restore the missing record: seizures, supervision, and the re-routing of Venezuelan oil revenue through imperial hands. We reframe the contradiction as doctrine—Fortress America tightening hemispheric command as multipolar escape routes multiply. We close with a call to organize: break the information... Continue Reading →
Denial by Design: Trump 2.0, the Pentagon, and the 2026 National Defense Strategy
The 2026 NDS turns imperial storytelling into imperial workflow. The Western Hemisphere is redesigned as warfighting rear-base and corridor system. Denial becomes the empire’s default form of power under constraint. Simultaneity panic fuses alliances, industry, and border militarization into one war-state machine.By:Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | January 27, 2026When Doctrine Stops Explaining and Starts... Continue Reading →
When Empire Smiles, Check Your Pockets: The Myth of a Trump–Rodríguez “Reset”
CNN wants the reader to see a new partnership forming in Caracas: a phone call, oil talk, CIA photo-ops, deportations back on schedule. But under siege, smiles are signals—and “warming relations” often means the empire believes it has found a manager, not a partner. We excavate the story’s framing and then trace the concrete leverage... Continue Reading →
Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution: Power, Rupture, and the Discipline of Governing Under Siege
A Weaponized Intellects excavation of Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution: Hugo Chávez Talks to Marta Harnecker, tracing how popular rupture collides with institutions, empire, class power, and the unfinished task of building a revolution that can survive its own victories By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | January 18, 2026 A Revolution That Refuses the Script... Continue Reading →
Posting Empire: Trump 2.0 and the Open Turn to Colonial Rule
How Trump’s Social Media Declarations Signal the Geopolitical, Economic, and Strategic Architecture of Fortress America and the American PoleBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | January 12, 2026When Empire Posts Its Intentions There are moments when the empire speaks in polished paragraphs—through white papers, summit communiqués, and the priestly language of “shared values.” And then... Continue Reading →
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 →
Socialism of the 21st Century: Hugo Chavez on the Bolivarian Revolution and Socialism
Hugo Chávez’s notebook for militants: party-building, revolutionary ethics, and the commune as the material base of people’s powerEdited by Prince Kapone • January 4, 2026Introduction Socialism of the 21st Century is not a memoir, a slogan, or a museum piece. It is a field manual for a revolution under siege — a set of sharp,... Continue Reading →
From Sanctions to Shackles: The Kidnapping of President Maduro and the Consolidation of the American Pole
How the American Pole escalated from sanctions to abduction—and why sovereignty survived the attempt at decapitation By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | January 3, 2026The Day the Monroe Doctrine Spoke in Plain EnglishThere are moments when empire stops dressing itself up. The usual costumes—“democracy promotion,” “human rights,” “counter-narcotics,” “regional stability”—fall off, and what remains... Continue Reading →