"The World"
...Known To Martians As
"THE WAR PLANET"
(Except for C-SPAN, Christian Science Monitor, Ted Koppel, Jim Leher, a couple of individuals CNN hasn't gotten rid of yet, and Greta Van Susteren whom they did, (and maybe a handful of others here and there) there are no longer any objective major US news sources. Our so-called "Free Press" might as well have revealed themselves to be the Apologists for Right Wing Nationalism that undermines the Constitution every day at every turn they have always been despite occassional moments of libertarian-sounding subterfuge. In the guise of "Patriotism" but really for CORPORATE COMMERCIAL SUCCESS/survival in a racist/bigoted/jingoistic/SUPERFICIALLY MATERIALISTIC society at all costs ("Freedom" to Republicans), NEWS MEDIA OUTLETS are All partisan and divisive in their efforts to out pander one another to the largest/lowest common denominator of the mindless flag worshipping or revolutionary audience share afraid to cross those whose minds are already made up who seem to believe in a form of authority that denies the value of questioning autority, so we are sending you to Canada, Britain, Russia, and elsewhere to print sources outside the US for The Fuller Truth! Unfortunately, some publishers expire their stories rather than archive them, so some originally linked to will be missing as time goes by, sorry...HB World-SPAN Editorial Staff)

"The eastern world it tis explodin',
violence flarin', bullets loadin',
you're old enough to kill but not for votin',
you don't believe in war, what's that gun you're totin',
and even the Jordan river has bodies floatin',
but you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

"Don't you understand, what I'm trying to say?
Can't you see the fear that I'm feeling today?
If the button is pushed, there's no running away,
There'll be no one to save with the world in a grave,
take a look around you, boy, it's bound to scare you, boy,
but you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

"Yeah, my blood's so mad, feels like coagulatin',
I'm sittin' here, just contemplatin',
I can't twist the truth, it knows no regulation,
handful of Senators don't pass legislation,
and marches alone can't bring integration,
when human respect is disintegratin',
this whole crazy world is just too frustratin',
and you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

"Think of all the hate there is in Red China!
Then take a look around to Selma, Alabama!
Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space,
but when you return, it's the same old place,
the poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace,
you can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace,
hate your next-door-neighbour, but don't forget to say grace,
and you tell me over and over and over and over again my friend,
ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction."

-- by Barry Mcguire