From colonial kitchens to global revolution, Ho outwitted empires with discipline, mass struggle, and political clarity. His victory was not just Vietnam’s—it was a blow struck for the oppressed everywhere. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information May 19, 2025 A Peasant on the World Stage: Ho Chi Minh and the Making of an Internationalist Before... Continue Reading →
Vietnam’s Crossroads: Market Socialism or Capitalist Restoration?
As Vingroup tightens its grip across Vietnam’s economic sectors, the contradictions of market socialism sharpen. But this isn’t surrender to capital—it’s a contested battlefield. The Party’s next move may determine whether the revolution advances or retreats. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information May 15, 2025 False Binaries and Manufactured Collapse Leo Tran, a Southeast Asia-focused... Continue Reading →
Redlines: May 15, 2025
Daily Dispatches from the Frontlines of Global Class and Anti-Imperialist Struggle By Weaponized Information | May 15, 2025 Africa Niger Tells France: Get Your Hands Off Our Uranium For decades, France lit its cities with uranium ripped from Niger’s earth, while Nigeriens stayed in the dark—literally and politically. Now the government in Niamey has pulled... Continue Reading →
Redlines: May 2, 2025
Redlines: Cutting Through Imperial Lies – May 2, 2025Daily Dispatches from the Frontlines of Global Class and Anti-Imperialist StruggleAfrica1. Atlantic Council pushes U.S.–Africa ‘diaspora engagement’The imperial scribes at the Atlantic Council want to rebrand U.S. meddling in Africa by weaponizing the African diaspora as middlemen for imperial interests. Beneath the fluffy talk of “partnership” is... Continue Reading →
Asia Doesn’t Mourn Empire: The New York Times and the Ghosts of U.S. Hegemony
How imperial nostalgia disguises the decline of U.S. power—and why the peoples of Asia aren’t grieving, they’re building By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | May 1, 2025 I. Behind the Byline: The Empire's Trusted Scribe Let’s start by pulling back the curtain. This article wasn’t written in a vacuum. It was penned by Hannah... Continue Reading →
How to Lose Your Sovereignty in Ten Easy Steps: Vietnam and the Delusions of Imperial Alignment
Vietnam isn’t rising—it’s being repositioned. Behind the promise of trade lies the old imperial game: extract, discipline, discard. What’s called opportunity is just recolonization with better branding.By Weaponized InformationApril 12, 2025Vietnam is being played.In a recent South China Morning Post op-ed, we’re told Vietnam sees economic opportunity in Trump’s return to tariff politics. With U.S.-China... Continue Reading →
Siege and Survival: Venezuela, Sanctions, and the Endurance of the Bolivarian Revolution
How Venezuela defied the odds and resisted economic strangulation in the era of hyper-imperialism. By Weaponized Information The United States has never forgiven Venezuela for choosing sovereignty. From the moment Hugo Chávez declared the Bolivarian Revolution, Washington launched a counterrevolution—not through direct military invasion, but through a weapon more insidious: hybrid warfare. Attempted Coups. Sabotage.... Continue Reading →
The Ghost of Bandung and the Weaponized World Order: A Revolutionary Engagement with Tricontinental’s Dossier No. 87
Bandung as a Weapon, Not a MemoryBy "Booby" Bolden, Weaponized Information (WI) | April 2025This essay is written as a comradely engagement with Dossier No. 87, "The Bandung Spirit", published by the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research in April 2025.At Weaponized Information, we draw deeply from the work of Tricontinental, Black Agenda Report, and other... Continue Reading →
Ho Was No Hoe: The Peasant Revolutionary Who Defeated Empire
The Man Who Beat the West “Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom.” — Ho Chi Minh The West has a habit of rewriting history to make itself feel better. So when a poor peasant revolutionary from Vietnam outsmarted, outlasted, and outfought not one, but two global empires—France and the United States—they had to... Continue Reading →