The Bulletin: September 24-30, 2025
This past week’s articles of interest…
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The Terracotta Pot Heater: A DIY Guide To Cozy Emergencies
Confronting devastating myths: The Missile in Degrowth
The Past and Future of Societal Collapse: Why Civilizations Fall and What We Can Learn From It
The planet, and human social life, depend on peasant farmers | Aeon Essays
‘Red Queen Syndrome’ Hits Global Oil Production | OilPrice.com
Peak Oil for Gen Z: Seven Questions and Answers for a New Generation – resilience
#311: Putting it together, part two | Surplus Energy Economics
Goliath’s Curse | Damn the Matrix
The New Nuclear Fever, Debunked | The Tyee
NATO Has Already ‘Declared Real War’ On Russia Through Ukraine, Lavrov Says | ZeroHedge
The politics of renewables are getting stranger. ‘Sun Day’ celebrates them anyway – resilience
Species did nothing to deserve this… we decide what happens next
Zelensky Is Manipulating Trump Into A Disaster Of Epic Proportions
Global water cycle: increasingly erratic and extreme | Climate & Capitalism
The undeniable science of extreme weather
What Good Is A Pollinator Garden
Digital ID UK: Starmer’s Expanding Surveillance State
Lessons From Red Dawn: What the 1980s Still Teaches About Survival and Resistance
China’s Green Dreams Shattered | ZeroHedge
Died Of A Delusion: The Fate Of Modern Civilisation?
Managed Decline: Why You Must Practice Not Falling
Why Better Is Less – by Pieter de Beer
The Great and Silly Oil Glut Meme | Art Berman
Preparing for Scarcity – TomDispatch.com
Intense groundwater flow destabilizes ice in North America’s Great Lakes, simulations show
Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”
Argentina Visited By the Economic Hitmen
The Electrification of Road Transport Will Turn Out to Be…
U.S. Preparing Possible Drone Strikes On Drug Cartels Inside Venezuela | ZeroHedge
If You Are Reading This Article You Might Be A Terrorist
The Nuclear Bomb is Back! | Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse
Outraged Farmers Blame Ag Monopolies as Catastrophic Collapse Looms/ Ag Web
Is Trump Going to Declare Martial Law?
Canada To Revive Online Censorship Targeting “Harmful” Content, “Hate” Speech, and Deepfakes
Trump’s NSPM-7 Alarms Law Firms While Congress Is Silent
Learning from Ants – Doug Casey’s International Man
On Peak Oil BS | Damn the Matrix
Pentagon orders arms makers to ‘quadruple’ missile production amid push for war: Report
Imagine A World Free Of Monsanto
Ageing farmers, problem or symptom? – by Gunnar Rundgren
My Senate Testimony on Surveillance – by Matt Taibbi
CO2: Death by Asphyxiation – by Ugo Bardi – Living Earth
The US Must Prepare For War–No Adversary Mentioned
PLEASE NOTE: This list is just ‘of interest’. It does not mean I personally endorse or agree with the content of a listed article; in fact, some I certainly do not agree with. But these are all part and parcel of stories told by our species about our world. Some are published by the authors for ‘educational’ and/or ‘informational’ purposes, some are for far more nefarious ‘narrative management’ ones–you, the reader, can decide which is which. Keep in mind a relevant passage from a Bill Rees paper: “We begin with a reminder that humans are storytellers by nature. We socially construct complex sets of facts, beliefs, and values that guide how we operate in the world. Indeed, humans act out of their socially constructed narratives as if they were real. All political ideologies, religious doctrines, economic paradigms, cultural narratives—even scientific theories—are socially constructed “stories” that may or may not accurately reflect any aspect of reality they purport to represent. Once a particular construct has taken hold, its adherents are likely to treat it more seriously than opposing evidence from an alternate conceptual framework.”
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