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Excerpt from Howl by Allen Ginsberg , 1955-56 What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open          their skulls and ate up their brains and imagi-         nation?  Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unob         tainable dollars! Children screaming under the          stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men          weeping in the parks!  Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch! Moloch the          loveless! Mental Moloch! Moloch the heavy          judger of men!  Moloch the incomprehensible prison! Moloch the          crossbone soulless jailhouse and Congress of          sorrows! Moloch whose buildings are judgment!          Moloch the vast stone of war! Moloch the stun-         ned governments! ...

Journalist : M. Ben M'Hidi, don't you think it's a bit cowardly to use women's baskets and handbags to carry explosive devices that kill so many innocent people? Ben M'Hidi :  And doesn't it seem to you even more cowardly to drop napalm bombs on defenseless villages, so that there are a thousand times more innocent victims? Of course, if we had your airplanes it would be a lot easier for us. Give us your bombers, and you can have our baskets. — The Battle of Algiers ,  a 1966 movie   Related The Rebel’s Clinic

A poem by Kos Kostmayer

State terrorism " The UK has conducted more than 1,200 airstrikes in Iraq and Syria since it became involved - more than any other coalition country bar the United States. In 2016 alone, the US dropped 12,192 bombs in Syria and 12,095 in Iraq, according to the American think tank Council on Foreign Relations." Keep bombing them so they don't kill us here ...

F & D by Mazen Kerbaj The Lebanese worker finally finds his daily bread by Mazen Kerbaj Drawings by Mazen Kerbaj