Above the four cities the fighter planesOf the Defense Department circle at a great heightSo that the stink of greed and povertyShall not reach them

Bertolt Brecht

FIGHTER planes circling the skies care for one thing alone: to exterminate all that lives below. Brechts poem was not describing the current ferocity of the Israeli jets over Lebanon. It speaks more of the relationship between capitalism and war: military might is an indication of the o