The homeland color code is bright orange, Al Qaida "chatter" is "the most specific we have seen," and lives will surely be forfeit - in what magnitude, no one knows.

And the Bush crew are enjoying it.

Welcome to chaos, the essential condition for successful piracy. To understand the mentality of the U.S. regime, one must grasp the logic of the pirate class that George Bush represents. Spawned by hyperactive, speculative capital and politically preeminent military industry, this new class is fundamentally parasitical. It has few direct connections to or interest in the well-being of the domestic economy, except as a source of tax revenues to be spent on itself. Having seized the state machinery of the only superpower, it turns American coercive might against the full range of the planet's existing institutions, with the goal of destroying them.

Unlike monopolists, who seek stable markets with themselves on top, these American pirates wage war against commercial and political order, itself. Their goal is to break down every impediment to their ability to impose the terms of relations among nations.