The Bulletin: November 12-18, 2025
This past week’s articles of interest…
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Chris Hedges: The Empire Self-Destructs – Consortium News
The seminal papers on water – by Alpha Lo
Trump Admin Expands Oil & Gas Drilling In Gulf Of America, Eyes Alaska Next | ZeroHedge
Will We Artificially Cool the Planet? The Science and Politics of Geoengineering
QE Is Coming: The 2008 Roots Of Fed Dominance
A Giant Problem Emerges For the AI Trade: A Power Shortfall Of 44 Nuclear Power Plants By 2028
Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse
Britain Halts Intelligence Sharing With US Over Caribbean Killings
Doomberg: Critiquing the “Energy Transition’
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince May Provide Boost To US Nuclear Industry | ZeroHedge
Why “Solutions” Fail | Dave Snowden
Are We Running Out Of Road, Part Two
New databases and testing theories of social evolution
The Social Costs Of Inflation – by Quoth the Raven
Venezuela Mobilises For Asymmetric Warfare
World Oil and Gas Demand Could Grow Until 2050 IEA Says
A New Oil Price War Is Now Underway | OilPrice.com
End of American Empire Nears – David Morgan | Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog
RFK Jr. Exposes Big Pharma’s Stranglehold On American Media | ZeroHedge
Climate Collapse, Imperialism, and Technological Solutionism in Academia with Aashis Joshi
The Making of a Too-Big-to-Fail Bubble – by Lau Vegys
Imperial Violence and Greenwashing in the Era of Climate Collapse with Aashis Joshi
White House insiders knew of 2020 Venezuela coup in advance, files show
11 Discoveries That Changed My Worldview – by Nate Hagens
Key Ocean Current Faltering, Raising Risk Of “Ice Age”-Like Cooling | ZeroHedge
Iran’s Elite IRGC Seizes Tanker In Strait Of Hormuz | ZeroHedge
Video: Meta Is Reading Your Private Messages to Feed Its AI – Global Research
Poll Of The Month: Are All Involuntary Governance Structures Inherently Ecologically Degenerative?
We Tried to Save Elephants — and Ended Up Choking the World
“The Arrogant Ape”: A Strong Case Against Human Superiority | Psychology Today
The US military’s plan to revive old bases in Latin America
Video: How Big Tech is reviving colonialism – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
In Canada, the Free Market Fairy failed to cut emissions. As expected. | Climate & Capitalism
Talking With Friends and Family About Collapse and Prepping
Germany Marches Toward Reinstating Military Conscription, Starting With Fitness Database | ZeroHedge
The Problem with Problems: Solutions Real and Fake
The Hard Landing Ahead – Why Current Disaster Strategies Are Doomed to Fail – Adapt Research Ltd
Prophecies of Doom – by Nathan Knopp – System Failure
Fatal delusions and the curse of ‘maximum power’
Will oil and gas consumption keep rising through 2050?
The EU’s new censorship machine – UnHerd
Is it Happening All Over Again? – by Eric Salzman
Will there be food? – by Gunnar Rundgren
Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media?, by Jelani Cobb, Taylor Lorenz, Jack Shafer, Max Tani
GLOBALSHIFT – Global Oil Production Charts
What We Burn To Speak To Machines
When everything sells off together – by No1
David Suzuki on Systemic Collapse
Severe floods cut global rice yields, threatening food security for billions
Rising CO2 is quietly weakening the nutrients in our food – Earth.com
Sachs & Mearsheimer on ‘Spheres of Security’
Poland Suspects Russia In “Unprecedented Act Of Sabotage” Of Rail Line | ZeroHedge
“Modern Humans: Unsustainable by Nature and Nurture” – William E Rees, PhD, FRSC
Thinking About Starting a Garden?
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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