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Revelations concerning the origins and connections of the alleged liquid bomb terror plot to Pakistan and the 7/7 bombings in London provide a strong indication that the operation, known for months yet deliberately timed for public release, was a synthetic ruse concocted by the Bush/Blair cabal to re-package the flagging war on terror.

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Lebanese Abbas Wehbeh shouts while holding his 10 day-old niece Waad, 08 August, 2006

The above picture says it all.

Can you feel his choking rage and grief, the sting of the tears streaming down? The dislocation of one reality into another?

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Sunday, 6 August

In the early hours, motor-cycle riders have been racing down the Corniche outside my home. Petrol is cheap for motor-cycles, and at first I curse the roar of their machines. Then I realise that their insouciance is a form of resistance. In their special way, they are denying the war, refusing to be cowed.

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Remember, good patriots, we are at war with Islam, Socialism, Communism, drugs, crime, illegal immigration, Gays, labor unions, liberal university professors, peace activists, environmentalists, Anti-Semites, secular humanists, and all those who pose a threat to the United States. Each of these groups shares culpability for the terrorism which has killed several thousand of US, British, Spanish, and Israeli citizens since 2001. They are a cancer upon the American Way and must be excised. Freedom and liberty will prevail despite their onslaught of evil.

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Contained wars can be "good" for the markets, stimulating profits in corporations located far from the fighting. It is hard to see how an uncontained, global conflagration can be any good, though. But the "cease fire" announced (but not implemented) late last week gave hope to the markets that the Middle East wars will remain contained.

But looking only at "markets" obscures the larger economic significance of the events. To see that, it can help to look at events in terms of imperial competition to secure natural resources and control over cheap labor. Among those who see the wars in the Middle East as essentially imperial wars, wars to secure power and wealth, there is some dispute as to whether the United States or Israel is in the driver's seat.

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