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 →