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The Untold Legacy of Western Culture: The Bad News and the Good News

Making Sense of the Human & Planetary Condition

The Untold Legacy of Western Culture

The Bad News and the Good News

Within the framework of emergent culture dynamics, The Work, refers to the social and ecological domains most afflicted by the catastrophic policies of the prevailing culture. The purpose of The Work is to identify and act upon the socio-ecological spheres in need of urgent reform and or, restoration.

The agencies in greatest need of reform are the governmental institutions responsible for promoting disastrous, backwards, unjust and or, corrupt policies. The areas in need of restoration are the socio-ecological domains bearing the brunt of prevailing culture policies.

We will be faced with one mounting crisis after another as long as people remain indoors with eyes glazed over as the pretty anchor woman smiles and cajoles with co-anchors after reporting the dismal scene encountered by billions the world over.

Little do they (TV viewers) know that every social and environmental crisis reported is due to the actions of the same organizations  filling the airwaves with every sort of nonsense, distraction and falsehood imaginable.

The bad news is:

There are no human or ecological domains left untouched by the scorched earth policies of the prevailing culture.

The problem is entrenched political and corporate power structures hell bent on doing business as usual regardless of the consequences.

The good news is:

There are many organizations and individuals working for social and ecological justice.

The problem is there are not enough of us involved in the clean-up, salvage and reform effort.

This news section of the Emergent-Culture News website delivers reports and headlines which identify…

• the sources of our social and environmental problems;
• the solutions currently in use or available;
• where and what the needs are;
• socio-cultural deficiencies;
• the people in action;
• justice served.

INDEX

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• Main Story: The Untold Legacy of Western Culture: The Bad News and the Good News
• Featured Story: Goldman Prize Winner Saves One of the World’s Most Important Drinking Source
• Corporate & Political Corrections
• Education Reform
• Economic Crisis
  
• Economic Reform
  
• Energy Policy Reform
• Environmental Policy Reform
• Food Policy Reform
• Gender Issues
• Government Reform
• Injustices to Correct
  
• The Obsolete, Unproven or Disproved
• Socio-Cultural Decay
• Standing up to Goliath
• Swords to Plowshares
• Understanding Religion
• Untamed Technologies
• Useful Ideas – What you can do
• Workplace
• World Crisis

The Work

Featured Story

Goldman Prize Winner Saves One of the World’s Most Important Drinking Source

Via AlterNet.org How one activist took on President Putin and oil interests to save 20 percent of thew world’s freshwater reserve.  Moscow — In a land where oil dominates politics and environmental issues barely make the agenda, it was a veritable coup.

Concerned with plans to route a major oil pipeline within 900 yards of pristine Lake Baikal, Marina Rikhvanova and her Baikal Environmental Wave advocacy group led thousands of people into the streets of nearby Irkutsk; collected over 20,000 petition signatures; and summoned “flash mobs,” which used tactics such as handing bottles of murky “Baikal water” to embarrassed officials.

After two months of protests, President Vladimir Putin pointedly asked the chief of state-owned oil company Transneft on TV whether an alternative route was possible. “If you are hesitating, then there is such an opportunity,” Putin told the quavering official. The pipeline was subsequently rerouted.

Corporate & Political Corrections

Hampshire College divests from corporations with involvement in Israel

Philip Morris Ordered to Pay $8 Million to Widow of Chain Smoker

Prosecuting Bush Administration Officials for War Crimes

Ecuador: Expelled diplomat was CIA

‘Superpower’ Isn’t a Boast, It’s a Death Warrant…

IAEA Inspectors: Iran not Producing Weapons-grade Uranium

BP to pay $179m to end pollution case

Education Reform

Nobelist Slams Education

Do children get a broad enough education?

LOCAL HEROES: SOME WHO HAVE STOOD UP AGAINST SCHOOL TEST MANIA..

Behaviourism, Psycho-Analysis and Physiological Manipulation in Education.

Peer-led sex education does not reduce abortions among teenagers

Economic Crisis and Reform

The Anti-Economy: How the Pursuit of Private Fortunes is Destroying Community Wealth.

Robert Kuttner on the Failures and Successes of the Stimulus: Democracy Now!

Is Economic Recovery Even Possible on a Planet Headed for Environmental Collapse? Martin Khor on the Global Economic Meltdown: “

Sharpness of Global Downturn Alarms Economists

US intelligence chief: World capitalist crisis poses greatest threat

Economic Crisis: Brzezinski warns of riots in US

Energy Policy Reform

EXPERTS BEGINNING TO QUESTION WHETHER RENEWABLE ENERGY IS ENOUGH CHANGE

New Research Ranks Top Renewable Energy Options

Environmental Policy Reform

So Long, Salamanders in Mesoamerica

Ban on mountaintop mining overturned

Canadian Activists Urge Obama to Reject Environmentally Destructive Oil Extraction from Alberta’s Tar Sand

Catastrophic Fall in 2009 Global Food Production

Honeybees under attack on all fronts

The hidden costs of better fuels

Climate models predicted Australian bushfires

Food Policy Reform

The Hidden Costs of Meat

If We Do Not Change the Way We Produce Food, There Will Be Crisis Within Ten Years.

Gender Issues

U.S. military reports 2,688 sex assault claims in 2007

Want to End War? Give Women Leaders a Chance

Motherhood ‘affects women’s pay’

Women Are Treated Less Frequently Than Men With Statins, Aspirin And Beta-blockers

Government Reform

NAOMI KLEIN ON OBAMA.Ron Paul: ‘War on Drugs must end’

Amnesty seeks Israel arms embargo

Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig Bets ‘Wikipedia’ Approach Will Transform Congress

Injustices to Correct

Injustice at Justice

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: ‘Democracy,’ American Style

Errors and Extremist Sources on Lou Dobbs Tonight

America’s Immigration Gulags Overflowing With Mentally Ill Prisoners

State of the Dream 2009: Report Finds People of Color in US Endure Silent Economic Depression.

Beaten, Tortured and Sentenced 25-to-Life for Minor Drug Offe

The Obsolete, Unproven or Disproved

Abstinence-Only Sex Education Statistics – Final Nail in the Coffin

Beyond the Drug War.

THE MELANIN OBSESSION The Catholic Church’s Roll in World Population Human Misery.

Socio-Cultural Decay

U.S. Teens Portrayed as Violent, Unethical

Fame! I Wanna Live Forever: How Narcissism Conquered Reality Civil Rights Leaders Address Hate Crime Spike Sticks and Stones

Standing up to Goliath: People in Action Against Oppression & Injustice

Over 120,000 march on Dublin

U.S. CATCHING HELL ON FOREIGN POLICY

Chileans Face Off Against Brazilian Mining Giant

Destroying GM Crops as an Act of Self-Defense

Human Rights Investigator and Rwandan Expert Alison Des Forges Dies in New York Plane Crash

Fighting the Banks to Counter Foreclosures

Swords to Plowshares: Disarmament & Demilitarization

Foreign policy bigs in bid to eliminate nukes Global Arms Trade Treaty One Step Closer? ed:……..

Understanding Religion

Reproductive Justice and Gender: Christian Right’s Demographic Nightmare: Muslims are “Out-Breeding” Us

Evolution of Religion

Help bring compassion back to religion: Karen Armstrong’s TED Prize wish on TED.com

How the Council of Nicea Changed the World

The Hypocrisy Gospel: Get Rich for Jesus?

Untamed Technologies

Blind Spot Documentary

Social and ethical issues concerning nanotechnology

Carbon Nanotubes That Look Like Asbestos, Behave Like Asbestos, Could Lead To Asbestos-related Disease

Global Limits Of Biomass Energy

Useful Ideas – What you can do

The Change Congress Project

Gandhi’s Top 10 Fundamentals for Changing the World

Breaking the Silence: Israeli Soldiers Speak

Challenging Authority

Activists Place Homeless in Vacant Homes

Workplace

Bullying More Harmful Than Sexual Harassment On The Job, Say Researchers

Hazardous particles emitted from common laser printers identified Dumbest Reason Ever for Not Supporting Paid Parental Leave

Poultry workers losing body parts

David Sirota: How to Solve America’s Wage Crisis

Toxic Smoke and Mirrors

World Crisis

Mexico: Obama’s Biggest Foreign Policy Challenge?

Criminal investigation of Halliburton’s Nigerian operation widens Evidence of corruption during Cheney’s tenure

Juan Cole’s Informed Comment: War without End

A Land Where CEOs Have Stopped Smiling The Victimization of Egyptian Women and Children

Peru to protect isolated tribes

The Roots of ‘Necklacing’: Why White Farmers in Zimbabwe Are Responsible for the Killings in South Africa

Ecuador expels 2nd US diplomat

Mexico spins toward ‘civil war’

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