Like it or not, left or right, free or bond, this is the language of the new world order. The language based upon specific ways of viewing the world; of beliefs and ideology; of irrational power and infantile perspective. This is the language of permanent wars; preemptive and gratuitous slaughter.A true believer doesn’t ask any questions. A true believer accepts no answers from others. A true believer believes in what he believes, believe it or not. Mr. Bush may be one of these, he has stated it this way: “I believe what I believe and I believe what I believe is right.” He has in fact hinted that his wars in the Middle East are Holy Wars. Israeli paper Harretz says that according to Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, Bush told him, “God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them.” (Source: Al Harretz, 06/26/03, Israel).

I do not know if he really believes all this, or even believes what he says he believes. Nobody really knows anyone this deeply. But what we are hearing when he makes these kinds of statements: “Wherever you go, you carry a message of hope - a message that is ancient and ever new. In the words of the prophet Isaiah, ‘To the captives, “come out,” and to those in darkness, “be free.””; this is what he told U.S. troops on May 1st when he declared “we won.” Soldiers have unique ways of responding to combat; in Vietnam, where I both served in combat and protested the war simultaneously without ambiguity, we just said it was just FUBAR. You may translate it freely. But nevertheless we must listen to what Mr. Bush says and take him at his word. We must read what his closest advisors think about and how they formulate policies. It is, in the end, what these elite “think” that causes them to “do.”

In every age...the ultimate sources of war are the beliefs of those in power:
their idea about what is of most fundamental importance and may therefore ultimately be worth a war.
-- Evan Luard, International War

Maybe one of the elite themselves put it best on the subject of Empires and their vulnerability, when Charles A. Kupchan stated “I use the term elite and decision makers synonymously to refer to those individuals responsible for formulating and implementing foreign and defense policy. To study their motivations and beliefs offers the most direct and accurate means of tracing the key considerations that shape policy.”
(The Vulnerability of Empire, 1994, Cornell, Page 5, Footnote 9)

Certain, less credible and sometimes downright ugly progressive leftists used to regularly attack anyone who spoke of these elites and outlined the “who’s who” of political misdeeds and policy and, indeed, smeared them as conspiracy theorists and anti-Semites (terms used synonymously by the left); they always charged these analysts with being “on the far-right.” According to postmodern post-Marxist thought one must confine your analysis to an institutional one whereby individuals are never culpable but act in the flow of consciousness that comes with institutions and presumably the buildings. They are no longer heard from these days because what was warned of by such analysts who always knew and understood what Messrs Luard and Kupchan knew and understood, are the only ones who have been consistently correct, prolific in their prophetic analyses for two decades, and stand alone once again in their analysis.

We are now entering the age of Empire once again, the age of not just any typical empire, not a Roman imperial project as the Romans themselves benefited by Rome. No, this American-led (militarily) but Western (Northern/Western) commercial empire, and all empires are commercial, is a corporate empire. Corporatism is its fundamental ideology, not reli