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When News Isn’t News

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The formula for successful entertainment is short and sweet… conflict. Without conflict movies and television would have no viewers.

By Michael Caporale

When news programming learned this lesson, they introduced opposing pundits to create conflict under the guise of being “fair and balanced.” Whether it’s a police chief and an attorney for the mother of a slain Afro-American son, a hypocrite politician and an emotional constituent, a Republican and a Democrat, a conservative and a progressive, an idiot and a scholar, a scientist and a religious fanatic, all are designed to further conflict.


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It’s time we realized that Pundit news is unwittingly deepening the American divide and stimulating violent conflict on the streets, an expression of the divide, thus propagating real news that can be filmed and displayed. News without a defined editorial purpose has become an agent of chaos rather than clarity.

But there’s another problem. The news is diluted and whitewashed to be palatable to the lowest common denominator, thus rendering it something fit for children rather than adults.

Now I’m really talking about cable news which is not subject to the strict regulations under which broadcast news is licensed. Cable channels can safely use fowl language in the context of reportage of statements made by on camera interviews, yet it is constantly replaced by proxy language such as “the n-word,” the “F-bomb”, the “s-word,” the “c-word” and so on, thus it dulls the effect of hearing such bad language from the mouth of a person not worthy of our respect. It also limits the emotional outrage of the expression itself.

Another example of how news dumbs down content is the ever-present block digitization that obfuscates an image, usually that of children or violent acts. The practice began with legal advisors telling journalists not to show the faces of children when photographing the news. This practice was originally initiated to deny would-be kidnappers and sexual deviants from identifying children on the playground and taking action against them. Now the out-of-focus haze is applied to the faces of migrant Latino children crossing the border in large groups, and wounded children in Palestine and Ukraine and other conflict zones for what reason? To protect them? How does this practice protect them? It denies them the full empathy they deserve, the kind that motivates viewers to get involved and take action.

And let’s also get real about the depiction of violence. Granted it’s not something anyone wants to see, but to assume that an audience cannot withstand the shock of violent imagery is foolhardy in an age where extreme bloody violence is an every-day occurrence in mass entertainment. From video games to Wrestling, to movies like “Braveheart,” it’s not just the kids being conditioned to watch violence in its extremes. Blood is everywhere but news depicting face-ghosted children being carried to an ambulance in a war zone. It blunts the reality and horror of violence, especially that done on our behalf. Once it was brought home in the seventies, it ended a war in Viet Nam. News has the responsibility to deliver objective facts whether distasteful or otherwise.

To see the extreme depths that the practice of obfuscation has plummeted, just take a look at this screen grab from a recent CNN news story, showing the view of a police dashcam. It’s utterly useless and absurd. That should tell you a lot of how we are regarded, not as potential agents of change but as hapless, entranced viewers basking in the golden glow of pure drivel.

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Gaza: Where Apartheid Meets Capitalism

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"In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties." --Albert Einstein

Dogma maintains that an old narrative–even if the story was corrupted by special interest groups–is maintained.

As children, we once played a game called “Telephone.”  Ten kids could be standing in a line next to each other. A short phrase would be whispered into the ear of the first kid.  Each person would then turn to the person next to them down the line, and continue trying to repeat the phrase until the child at the end of the line was reached.

On many occasions, the phrase had been altered.

Does the same circumstance happen when it comes to geopolitical news?

What happens when the truth is corrupted? Influenced. Altered.

Simple common decency. What ever happened to it?  And why does this–and other crises continue to go on? Are they all tied to the same root cause?    What can be done to stop this genocide?

Billions of dollars or rare earth minerals under Gaza…..that what happened to basic human decency.

PART ONE

Gaza: The Struggle for Human Sovereignty

Part 1: Roots of Resistance

Why it matters

What’s happening in Gaza isn’t random. It’s not new. And it’s not just about Hamas.
It’s the latest chapter in a long, brutal struggle over land, life, and legitimacy.

The context

Gaza has been a crossroads of empires — from Pharaohs and Romans to Crusaders and the British.
It was once part of historic Palestine — a thriving coastal hub along ancient trade routes.

Then came 1948.

What changed

▶️ The Nakba (“catastrophe”) began with the founding of Israel.
▶️ Over 700,000 Palestinians were expelled — homes demolished, villages erased.
▶️ Many were driven into Gaza — a 25 km-long strip that became a refugee prison.
▶️ Today, most Gazans are descendants of those forcibly removed.

Life under siege

Since 1967, Israel has controlled every exit and entry point — by land, sea, and air.

What that looks like:

  • Military occupation
  • Home demolitions
  • Night raids
  • Checkpoints
  • Restricted food, fuel, water, medicine
  • Arbitrary arrests, detentions, and extrajudicial killings

Gaza became an open-air prison. Two million people trapped — indefinitely.

The uprisings — and the fallout

Palestinians rose up in two major intifadas (1987, 2000) demanding freedom.

The response?

  • Gaza’s only airport and seaport destroyed
  • A security wall encircled the territory
  • Borders sealed
  • Caloric intake rationed by Israeli military — just enough to survive

What’s really at stake

This isn’t just about borders. It’s about sovereignty, identity, and survival.

Palestinians in Gaza are:

  • Denied freedom of movement
  • Cut off from opportunity
  • Living under systemic apartheid
  • Facing daily violence and dehumanization

This is not a conflict. It’s a crisis of human dignity.

What’s next

This is Part 1 of a 4-part series.
Up next: The colonial playbook, the oil economy, and the engineered erasure of Palestine.

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PART TWO

 

Gaza: The Struggle for Human Sovereignty

Part 2: From Faith to Force — The Birth of Zionism

Why it matters

To understand Gaza today, we must separate Judaism — a faith from Zionism — a political movement.
One is spiritual. The other is territorial, strategic, and often violent in execution.

✡️ Judaism ≠ Zionism

Judaism is a 3,000-year-old religion.
Zionism is a 19th-century nationalist movement that sought to create a Jewish state — originally pitched as a safe haven after European antisemitism and pogroms.

But…

Many Orthodox Jewish communities rejected Zionism as heretical — believing only a divine messiah, not political power, could restore Israel.
Even today, Jewish anti-Zionist voices exist — silenced, smeared, or ignored.

Enter the Rothschilds

By the late 1800s, the Rothschild banking dynasty was a global financial power — with eyes on the Middle East’s oil-rich lands and trade routes.

Why?

  • The Ottoman Empire was weakening.
  • Oil was becoming gold.
  • Western empires needed a foothold in the region.

The Zionist project begins

➡️ Baron Edmond de Rothschild — called “Father of the Yishuv” — began buying up vast tracts of Palestinian land under the guise of “colonization.”
➡️ He funded infrastructure, agriculture, and housing to resettle European Jews, many fleeing Russian pogroms.
➡️ He created PICA — the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association. The name said the quiet part out loud.

How colonization was justified

Zionism offered a perfect vehicle:
✔️ Appeal to Jewish suffering
✔️ Leverage Biblical narratives for divine legitimacy
✔️ Secure a Western ally in a strategic location

Result:
A settler-colonial state backed by global capital and western guilt — built on the ruins of an indigenous people.

⚔️ A European Project in Arab Lands

Zionism was not born in the Middle East.
It was a European political vision, financed by elite bankers and supported by colonial powers looking to redraw the map.

Palestinians had nothing to do with the Holocaust, yet paid the ultimate price — their land, freedom, and identity.

The power of silence

Those who question the Zionist project — even respectfully — face immediate branding as “antisemitic.”
This tactic silences both:

  • Palestinian voices calling for justice, and
  • Jewish voices opposing Zionism.

Why this still matters

The occupation of Gaza is not an isolated act — it’s part of a generational strategy of displacement, domination, and resource extraction.

It’s not about religion.
It’s about power, profit, and control — wrapped in sacred language and sold as security.

Coming next:

Part 3: Gaza as Commodity — War, Gas, and the New Canal

We’ll unpack the profit motives behind the destruction — and who stands to gain from Gaza’s erasure.

Stay informed. Truth needs a network.

 

Gaza: The Struggle for Human Sovereignty

Part 3: Gaza as Commodity — Erasure for Profit

Why it matters

Gaza’s devastation isn’t random.
It’s strategic — a systematic clearing of land for control, commerce, and long-planned development.

This isn’t about Hamas.
It’s about real estate, gas fields, trade routes — and erasing Palestinian presence.

What’s really happening

The bombardment of Gaza:

  • Targets homes, hospitals, schools, cemeteries
  • Destroys infrastructure essential for civil life
  • Displaces millions — permanently

This isn’t just war. It’s deliberate erasure.

Follow the money

Beneath the rubble lies unimaginable profit:

  • Trillions in offshore gas reserves already contracted to BP — with zero benefit to Palestinians
  • Luxury real estate developments planned along Gaza’s coast
  • Ben Gurion Canal project in the works — a rival to the Suez Canal, cutting through Gaza to the Mediterranean
  • Major infrastructure deals already in play with UAE and Saudi Arabia

Palestinians? Not consulted. Not compensated. Not allowed to return.

Settler enthusiasm on display

Israeli settler leaders have been caught on video:

  • Celebrating the potential of a “Palestinian-free” Gaza
  • Planning luxury beachfront communities on flattened neighborhoods
  • Lobbying Netanyahu for rapid land clearance

Developers have literally camped outside the Prime Minister’s office, eager to move in once the “cleansing” is done.

The canal connection

The Ben Gurion Canal, long imagined, would:

  • Provide Israel with global shipping control
  • Sideline Egypt’s Suez Canal
  • Reinforce Western military and commercial dominance in the region

And Gaza? It sits directly in the path.

The visual blueprint

Imagine:

  • A “smart city” built on Gaza’s ruins
  • Lush resorts where refugee camps once stood
  • Surveillance infrastructure and corporate towers replacing homes, schools, mosques

All under the banner of “progress.”

⚠️ Apartheid meets capitalism

This is not a war for peace.
It’s a war for privatized gain — in the name of national security, wrapped in a false narrative of terrorism.

What we’re seeing is:

  • Racial supremacism + military occupation
  • Corporate greed + land theft
  • Modern colonialism, engineered for profit

Pattern recognition

The Gaza blueprint echoes across the globe:

  • Displaced indigenous peoples
  • Resource extraction by elites
  • Digital surveillance and gated control in “smart cities”
  • The language of safety used to justify apartheid and exclusion

This isn’t an anomaly. It’s a prototype.

Coming next:

Part 4: Sovereignty or Surveillance — The Choice Before Us

We explore what Gaza teaches us about global systems, rising authoritarianism, and the fight for planetary justice.

Share if you care. Truth demands light.

PART FOUR

Gaza: The Struggle for Human Sovereignty

Part 4: Sovereignty or Surveillance — The Global Fork in the Road

Why it matters

What’s happening in Gaza isn’t isolated — it’s a mirror for the world.
If we look closely, we see the outlines of a future where sovereignty is replaced by surveillance, and freedom is traded for control.

Gaza is not just a tragedy — it’s a warning.

The Gaza blueprint

What we see in Gaza:

  • Total loss of freedom of movement
  • Militarized borders and lockdowns
  • Access to food, water, electricity — all controlled
  • Dissent criminalized
  • Survivors branded “terrorists” for resisting occupation

Now zoom out.

The pattern repeats

Look across the globe:

  • “15-minute cities” proposed under the guise of sustainability
  • Digital IDs and social credit systems modeled after China
  • Farmland acquisition by corporate elites
  • Speech, movement, and bodily autonomy increasingly restricted
  • All enforced through tech-driven control systems

The Gaza model isn’t an exception.
It’s a prototype for a global surveillance regime.

The shift is systemic

Under the banner of “progress,” we are seeing:

  • Privatization of public goods
  • Militarization of everyday life
  • Replacement of human governance with automated systems of compliance
  • Weaponization of crises (pandemics, terrorism, climate) to justify control

It’s not just Gaza on lockdown.
Humanity is next — unless we intervene.

✊ A different path is possible

The future does not have to be engineered by billionaires and backed by bombs.
We can build systems that prioritize:

  • Local self-governance
  • Human dignity over digital dominance
  • Resource-sharing over hoarding
  • Spiritual vision over racial or religious supremacy

Reclaiming the narrative

The Rothschild-backed vision of colonial domination was multi-generational.
Why shouldn’t justice be as relentless?
Why shouldn’t love, liberation, and neo-humanism be as strategic?

The call

Let Gaza be more than grief.
Let it be the awakening spark of a global shift toward:

  • Collective sovereignty
  • Decentralized power
  • A future rooted in justice, empathy, and shared stewardship of the Earth

The end of vaeshyan capitalism can be our beginning.

TL;DR: The series recap

  • Part 1: Gaza’s roots in displacement and erasure
  • Part 2: The colonial strategy behind Zionism — and its backers
  • Part 3: Gaza’s destruction as a land grab for gas, real estate, and shipping dominance
  • Part 4: The global stakes — and the path to planetary liberation

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Empower your Inner Einstein

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How would Albert Einstein solve  our ongoing crises?

Hint: Not with the same systems that caused it.


The problem

  • We’ve had 30+ global climate conferences.
  • Thousands of panels, books, webinars.
  • And yet… the crisis grows.

Why?

We’re applying outdated thinking to system-wide collapse.

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein

What we’re doing wrong

We’re fixing potholes instead of redesigning the road.

Band-aid strategies:

  • Patch the economy
  • Offset emissions
  • Tweak policies

But the system is the crisis.
Our global economy is rooted in:

  • Extraction
  • Exploitation
  • The illusion of independence

What Einstein understood

Nothing in the universe is independent.
Everything is interconnected, interdependent, and shaped by universal laws.

⚠️ The disconnect:
We build institutions and economies as if nature doesn’t exist.

✅ The fix:
Rebuild human systems to follow the logic of living systems.

Nature’s playbook

Einstein would start here:

  • ♻️ Waste = Food
    In nature, nothing is wasted.
  • Diversity = Resilience
    Monocultures collapse. Networks thrive.
  • Feedback loops matter
    Ignore them, and collapse accelerates.
  • Interdependence is non-negotiable
    No species, system, or structure survives in isolation.

️ So what can YOU do?

Start by thinking differently:

  • Question systems built on domination and separation.
  • Learn how ecosystems function.
  • Recognize your interdependence — with people, place, and planet.

Take local action:

  • Build a community resilience hub
  • Host a systems literacy workshop
  • Audit your town’s policies — do they mirror nature or defy it?

The Einstein Move

We don’t need smarter tech.
We need smarter thinking.

  • Build like a forest.
  • Lead like a mycelium.
  • Design like an ecosystem.

Bottom line

Einstein wouldn’t be attending the next summit.
He’d be prototyping a new paradigm — one rooted in nature’s intelligence.

Empower your inner Einstein.
→ Join the regenerative shift at MobilizedNews.com
→ Think different. Act interdependent. Build what works for all.

 

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A Call for Public Media in a Broken Democracy

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Courtesy of Pressenza

To confront the barrage of executive orders and undiplomatic policies from the U.S. government, the opposition is focusing on restoring institutions to their pre-Trump state—without recognizing that it was precisely those institutions that created the conditions for the current crisis.

The democracy they claim to defend was largely formal: it worked for some while leaving millions marginalized. For decades, no serious action was taken to stop the relentless concentration of wealth, the decline in living standards, or the dehumanizing effects of unchecked technological development. These issues remain unaddressed.

Now, the new administration is threatening to cut federal funding for public radio and television, accusing these outlets of being too “leftist” or “woke.”

But perhaps even more revealing than the threat itself is the reaction of public media institutions. WNYC in New York, for example, has leveraged this threat primarily as a fundraising opportunity, urging listeners to donate out of fear rather than conviction.

This response exposes a fundamental contradiction. These institutions speak of “democracy” and “public service,” yet they are unable—or unwilling—to mount a truly democratic response. Why aren’t they calling on people to stand up for public goods? Why not organize a large-scale campaign, like a concert in Central Park, to advocate for a federal public funding system that remains independent of presidential politics? New York has plenty of artists ready to contribute and stand up for others.

The question becomes clear:

Will institutions like WNYC and NPR help advance genuine democracy, or will they gradually transform into privatized versions of non-profit entities? If we want democracy, we need active public participation. If we accept privatization, we merely need people’s money.

Today, there is no visible leadership in our so-called democratic institutions that is mobilizing the population to build a new democratic system—one that addresses economic redistribution and real public participation. This isn’t just about public broadcasting. What future awaits Social Security, Medicare, the U.S. Postal Service, public libraries, and other essential public services?

These institutions cannot be privatized. No modern society can develop without deepening democracy, improving standards of living, and ensuring collective well-being. A society governed primarily by self-interest ultimately undermines itself.

So today, my call is to WNYC and NPR: Please stop trying to merely save yourselves in a collapsing system. Instead, help move the country forward. Mobilize people. Inspire engagement. Become a force in building a new, inclusive society for all.

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