The Bulletin: October 22-28, 2025
This past week’s articles of interest…
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Japan Pushes Back on U.S. Pressure to Halt Russian Energy Imports | OilPrice.com
American Oligarchs: The Media Consolidation Timeline
Microplastics May Be Tied to Vascular Dementia Cases, Review Finds : ScienceAlert
UN pushes for worldwide disaster alerts as extreme weather ‘spirals’ | Weather News | Al Jazeera
Green water, blue water, silvergreen water, silverblue water
#313: Building the Biggest Bang | Surplus Energy Economics
What Does an Economy Without Growth Look Like?
How to live sustainably in an unsustainable world? – resilience
ZeroHedge: Farmers are facing their worst economic downturn in at least 50 years
Trump Now ‘Fully On Warpath With Russia’ With Oil Sanctions, Medvedev Says | ZeroHedge
La Niña Just Erased Patagonia’s Winter. What Will She Do to the North?
Oil Wars – by Lau Vegys – Doug Casey’s Crisis Investing
Not Trying to ‘Fix’ Predicaments Isn’t Defeatism | how to save the world
5 Steps for Listening to the Land – by Max Wilbert
Living Beyond Growth – by Pieter de Beer
Recession Watch: Shadow Banking Crisis … and So Much More
The U.S. Isn’t Even Bothering With Its Usual Lies to Sell Its Regime Change War in Venezuela
Plastic pollution could linger at ocean surfaces for over a century, new research finds
Dimming the Sun Like a Volcano? This Climate Fix Could Backfire Horribly
The 7-Stage Collapse Pattern: Spain, Britain, USSR… USA Is At Stage 5
Why The Bad Guys Keep Winning: A 500-Word Manifesto Against The Shitocracy
Talking With Friends and Family About Collapse and Prepping
From Relic to Renaissance: Why Oil’s Repricing Could Define the Next Decade
2035: Permanent Crisis – The World After American Unraveling | Collapse of Industrial Civilization
The Revolution Trilogy – Charles Hugh Smith’s Substack
If You Think Groceries Are Expensive Now… Just Wait
Over 100 ‘BSL-4’ Bioweapons Labs Now Operate Worldwide
The Black Death – by Nathan Knopp – System Failure
What Comes After The Current Financial System Ends?
THE DEEPER DIVE: Inflation Has Become a Hidden Menace
Retail Leverage Goes to Extremes – RIA
Energy Reality: What Can’t (and Won’t) Happen | Art Berman
New Satellite Data Reveal a Shift in Earth’s Once-Balanced Energy System – Eos
The US Is Weaponizing Energy Geopolitics In A Bid To Break Apart BRICS
Science Snippets: The Disadvantage of Reducing Air Pollution
What does the government know?
Trump Unleashes the CIA on Venezuela – Global Research
Visa Launches Biometric Digital Identity Initiative For Payments
Problems, Predicaments, and Tipping Points
The Fed’s Pivot: The Return of Easy Money and the Inflation Storm Ahead
The Hidden Architecture Of Debt: How Private Banks Captured The Global Economy | ZeroHedge
I Don’t Know – by Nate Hagens – The Great Simplification
Please Consider the Environment Before Printing This Email
Why “Dimming the Sun” Might Be the Most Dangerous Climate Fix Yet
Drought is quietly pushing American cities toward a fiscal cliff | Grist
October 27, 1990: The Economist Admits Nobody Is Gonna Seriously Cut CO2 Emissions
America’s First Bioregionalist – by Matt Orsagh
Biosphere Theatrics | Do the Math
The Guillotine Still Falls – by Mike Brock
What we could do – by Jeff McFadden – A Systemic Approach
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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