Following Japan's recent unprovoked surprise attack on the Moon, USA with Australia's assistance is about to launch a second kamikaze assault, not once but twice. Whatever has the Moon done to provoke this wave of imperialist aggression?

A ROBOT explorer will soar into space next week on a kamikaze mission to punch a hole in the moon... Travelling at 2.5 kilometres a second, the empty two-tonne upper stage of the rocket that launched the probe will crash first, sending debris - rock, soil and, perhaps, long-frozen ice - at least 10 kilometres high... Travelling close behind, the 700-kilogram kamikaze robot, the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, will plunge through the plume, sniffing for water. Four minutes later it too will smash into the surface.

Imperialist powers align to steal previous resources from weaker neighbors ... in this case, the moon's vital scarce commodity, H2O. I guess Marx was right! No wonder the Martians appear to be stacking up human skulls.