[1988]
Lyrics & Music by Thilo Herrmann
Album: The Daily Horror News

Military competition between the world's most powerful capitalist states prompts governments to spend huge sums on the best means to kill the largest number of people – and that requires good science. So Albert Einstein's theories helped pave the way for the atomic bomb that devastated Hiroshima.

The kind of science that is pursued – and the way it's pursued – is therefore constrained by the social relations of capitalism. Scientists devote more of their time to discovering the military applications of scientific discoveries than they do to finding a cure for cancer.
Medical scientists who work for major pharmaceutical companies are concerned not with curing diseases but with producing drugs whose sale will turn a profit. There is more money in finding ways to sell a cocktail of drugs that reduces the symptoms of... (Continues)

[1990]
Album: Dirty Surfaces

“I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse.
I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea.
You may bury my body in Sussex grass,
You may bury my tongue at Champmedy.
I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass.
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee”
(Stephen Vincent Benét)

[1990]
Album:Dirty Surfaces