The Bulletin: October 29-November 4, 2025
This past week’s articles of interest…
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New Mexico Officials Report High Rate Of ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Residents Near Air Base | ZeroHedge
Barack Obama Proposes a Scary Idea for Social Media
Censorship Is Now A New Form Of Journalism
When Hunger Is Weaponized: The Age Of Food Terrorism
Terror Management Theory: How Existential Dread Has Shaped the World
Manufacturing Dissent: How America’s Most Popular “Opposition” Media Protects Oligarch Power
Why Capitalism Is Unsustainable — And Headed for Collapse
Material Dependencies | Nina Djukanović
The dance of groundwater and vegetation – by Alpha Lo
Yes, Everything Crashed–Just Not For You
🔴 KEY INTEL: Economic COLLAPSE Being PLANNED RIGHT NOW! (they want your wealth) | Simon Michaux
The Diminishing Returns of ‘Victory’: Empire in the Age of Climate Tipping Points | naked capitalism
Later Is Now: The Speed Of the Sixth Extinction
The Death Of Progress: Liberalism At the End Of the World
Americans Have No Idea Who Their Government Is Bombing, And Other Notes
Digital ID: The Next Step Toward Total Control
Trump’s Nuclear Test Plans Might Be Meant To Manipulate Russia Into An Escalation With Europe
Is This When the AI Bubble Pops? – by David Haggith
A lack of very cheap oil is leading to debt problems
The New Nuclear Fever, Debunked – resilience
Trump Is Moving Relentlessly Toward Illegal War in Venezuela | Truthout
We Found Errors in Lazard’s Firming Cost Calculations
Micro-Survival: Everyday Resilience
Civilisational Collapse: Your Questions Answered
Economics needs a Mark Twain Award – by Steve Keen
Life Is Essential To the Climate
We Have Never Been Austere – by Quoth the Raven
The Emirates Shows Us How Not To Build Solar
Societal Collapse Isn’t an Accident It’s a Predictable Feature of Growth – Daily Neuron
By a strange coincidence, all the countries Trump wants to bomb are rich in oil
11 Charts To Keep You Up Tonight
FOOD SOVEREIGNTY OR BUST: Survival or Servitude
Science Snippets: Localized Aerosol Masking Effect Identified
Oil, Lies, and Videotape – by Mary Geddry
In practice, ‘net zero’ was exactly how much such pledges were worth
How will the invasion of Venezuela end?
When a Train Wreck Is No Accident – Doug Casey’s International Man
A cautionary solar tale: Billions wasted thanks to a rush to market – TEA
The descent – by Gunnar Rundgren
Science Snippets: The Living Planet on the Brink
What kills societies – by Antonio Melonio
Global study reveals soaring freshwater demand in material production
Drinking water in Tehran could run dry in two weeks, Iranian official says | Water News | Al Jazeera
How did the Roman Empire view nature and its seasons? | Aeon Essays
If Solar and Wind Are Now Cheaper than Fossil Fuels, Why Don’t We Have More? – MishTalk
Trust Bill: Climate Change Won’t Lead to the End of Civilization
A Quarter of Americans Now Believe Political Violence is Justified – JONATHAN TURLEY
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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