I agree with your sentiments but I don't hear much of what you are saying in the news - mostly on this messageboard.
According to the UN, the number of people displaced by conflict is over 60 million - a record number, and many of those conflicts receive little attention.
60 Million People Displaced By World Conflicts U.N. Refugee Agency Says NPR
At least since the U.N. Refugee Agency started counting more than half-a-century ago. The report says that if these nearly 60 million people were a nation, it would be the 24th largest in the world. Half of the refugees are children. There's been a 31 percent jump in refugees in Asia where Rohingya Muslims have been fleeing Myanmar only to become the victims of human traffickers. Between Syria and Iraq, some 15 million people have been uprooted. Turkey is now the biggest host country for refugees, followed by Pakistan and Lebanon. Michele Kelemen, NPR News, Washington.
This is 2012, but the situation has not changed all that much in those regions.
Top 10 neglected refugee crises
Eritrean refugees in eastern Sudan: Eritreans have been crossing into eastern Sudan since their country started to agitate for independence from Ethiopia in the 1960s and, more recently, to escape Eritrea’s policy of indefinite military conscription. Currently, about 66,000 Eritreans are living in refugee camps in Gedaref, Kassala and Red Sea states, which are among the poorest parts of Sudan, and a further 1,600 cross the border every month. Many of the newer arrivals view Sudan as a transit country, continuing north with the goal of reaching Europe or Israel. This has made them a target for abuse by smugglers and human traffickers. Those who remain in Sudan cannot legally own land or property and struggle to find jobs in the formal sector...
Sudanese refugees in South Sudan: Over the past 18 months, an estimated 170,000 people have fled conflict between Sudanese government forces and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North in Sudan’s Blue Nile and South Kordofan states, pouring into South Sudan's Upper Nile and Unity states. Humanitarian agencies are bracing for a further influx once the rainy season comes to an end and impassable roads reopen. Aid workers fear that swelling refugee numbers, flooding and disease outbreaks could aggravate the crisis, and UNHCR is urgently appealing for an additional US$20 million to man
Sudanese refugees in Chad: Nearly a decade of conflict in Sudan's western Darfur region displaced some 1.8 million Sudanese. Of these, more than 264,000 fled into neighbouring Chad, where they continue to live in 12 camps along the country’s eastern border with Sudan. Chad is one of the world's poorest countries and, according to UNHCR, the working environment is “extremely challenging” due to the region’s lack of infrastructure and natural resources...
IDPs in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): Defections from the Congolese army, which gave rise to the M23 armed group, have led to a resumption of violence in the DRC's North Kivu Province in the last six months. More than 260,000 people have been displaced so far, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. A further 68,000 have fled to neighbouring Uganda and Rwanda. The IDPs are living in dozens of makeshift camps across the province, where aid agencies are providing shelter, protection, food and health services, despite a severe funding shortfall and recurrent attacks on aid workers. The new wave of IDPs adds to the 1.7 million already internally displaced in the country, according to UNHCR.
This conflict is one of the longest running and most brutal conflicts in modern times - certainly as brutal as ISIS but little attention is given to it. Women, children (boys,, girls, infants) are brutally raped often neccessitating extensive reconstructive surgery to regain some normalicy - assuming they survive. Child soldiers are common.
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh: Muslims from Myanmar’s western Rakhine State - commonly referred to as the Rohingya - are an ethnic minority that has endured systemic discrimination and abuse over the past five decades, including being stripped of their citizenship under a 1982 law. Over the past 50 years, thousands have fled the country, the vast majority to Bangladesh. UNHCR has not been permitted to register new arrivals since mid-1992, but it estimates that there are more than 200,000 Rohingya in the country’s southeast...
Tamil refugees in India: More than three years after the end of Sri Lanka’s protracted civil war, there are more than 100,000 ethnic Tamil Sri Lankans in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, including 68,000 in 112 government-run camps...
Afghan refugees in Iran: Afghanistan is the source of one of the world’s largest and most protracted refugee crises, with waves of refugees fleeing the country after the 1979 Soviet invasion, then during Taliban rule in the 1990s, and finally during the last decade of conflict between US-led forces and Taliban insurgents. While much has been written about the 2.7 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan, the presence of some 900,000 registered refugees and 1.4 million unregistered Afghans in neighboring Iran has received less attention...
Horn of Africa refugees in Yemen: Yemen has long been a transit country for migrants trying to reach Saudi Arabia in search of work, but since 2006 it has also become home to increasing numbers of refugees from Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea. Despite conflict, poverty and a sometimes xenophobic environment in Yemen, a record 103,000 refugees and migrants arrived in 2011, bringing the total number of registered refugees to 230,000, in addition to an estimated 500,000 migrants...
Malian IDPs and refugees in neighbouring countries: During and after the April takeover of northern Mali by Tuareg rebels, who were quickly supplanted by Islamist groups, some 34,977 Malians escaped to Burkina Faso, 108,942 fled to Mauritania and 58,312 went to Niger. Some 118,000 Malians have been internally displaced, 35,300 of them within the north itself, in the regions of Kidal, Gao and Timbuktu...
IDPs in Colombia: Since the start of the conflict between the Colombian government and armed Marxist guerrillas in the mid-1960s, the threat of violence has forced millions to abandon their homes. Indigenous and Afro-Colombian populations living in remote, rural areas have been particularly affected. The government puts the number of IDPs at 3.6 million, but several NGOs estimate the figure is closer to 5 million, pointing out that many of those displaced have not been officially registered...
That's as of 2012. Just last week I listened to a story on Haiti and the Dominican Republic where mass deportation of Dominicans of Haitian ancestery, as well as their decendents will be stripped of legal status and citizenship and deported to Haiti.
There are ongoing conflicts in South America and Mexico sending floods of migrants over the border into the US - most of them children. In fact the drug wars in Mexico have been ongoing for decades, cost thousands of lives, people killed brutally and horribly to make a point. The conflict in Ukraine has displaced over 3,000 people.
But no one pays attention to these conflicts. If you start a thread on anything to do with Islam or IP it goes on to perpetuity. Start a thread on the violence in Mexico (such as the bus load of young students massacred, burned, and buried in an anonymous grave) or the plight of the Rohinga or the Congo or the refugee crisis in Ukraine and it dies.
Waiting for others to post news on the message boards is just lazy, so is expecting to hear news on the radio.
I've posted threads on the Congo, Mexico, the Rohinga multiple times. The radio is a perfectly legitimate source of news - as much as newspapers, television or the internet. What are you waiting for?
Radio is not about in depth knowledge but inciting anger towards someone or something. It is not about solutions but about blame. Headlines are not news. Talking heads are not news.
That depends on what you listen to. The stories I listen to are covered in depth, from a variety of viewpoints on both sides and often will discuss the historical background of a conflict. They don't focus on sensationalism, blood and blame because most conflicts aren't that black and white. That is why I like to listen - I end up learning a lot. Maybe you are making a lot of assumptions here.
Do you actually know about the places in the congo (there are two countries), myanmar or mexico you hear about on the radio? Do you actually know anything about the people involved? Do you understand the politics? do you know why the problems exist, or just that there is problem? Did you get involved in the solution or just pass on the rants and disinformation and feeds the problems?
When I don't know, I try to research. I try to understand the conflict and both sides.
What do you do Aris? Do you just just pass on the rants and disinformation and feed the problems?
Even living where I did, I was always learning from people as well as anything I could get my hands on. I have done a lot of research both as part of my job and because I cared. I am still researching on ways to help. I am in touch with those who are effected. I might not be able to physically get involved in helping any more, but I can through education and information. I can't travel half way around the world any more, but I used to. I've help those in africa, asia and the middle east. I've traveled and gotten to know the people around the world. South and Central American is not a major part of my knowledge base, but many of the problems and solution can be applied.
I've worked in refugee camps. I help people in africa. I've been involved in rescues in asia. I've been involved in both medical and hospice care. I've studied and taught about the world history, politics and religion. I've been involved in negotiation and politics. I've researched, written, organized and participated. Now I am limited to a computer. I've seen war and disasters from both sides. Now I can neither speak or travel the way I used to. I am not ideal though. My fingers are my voice. In more ways than most I have BTDT. I am still from where I live help those that suffer. I would like more people to want to get involved not because they should or because it looks good but because they care.
I've seen how lives can be changed and many mistakes made in the past. I have tried to inspire my children and seen them grow on their own into amazing people. Now I hope my grandchildren will find their own way to help others.
No, I don't just rant. I have strong opinions, as do most people by a certain age, but I have based my opinions on knowledge and experience as much as possible. I hope I will continue to help, share and motivate others till my last days. I don't have the patience of youth but I keep trying.
Thank you...
Not everyone has the world experience you do, but that doesn't mean we're ignorant or idiots or don't care.
Others do care you know - whether it's through the charities they support or the work they physically do, in small or large ways. We may not agree (in fact seldom) but I do take the time to try to understand both sides of the issues and avoid propoganda that is rampant on all sides.
The crusades were an attempt to win back the Holy Land....not destroy Islam. 
