The Bulletin: December 10–16, 2025
This past week’s articles of interest…
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U.S. Army Looks to Build Small Refineries for Critical Minerals | OilPrice.com
White House Draws Up Post-Maduro Plans As Trump Warns His “Days Are Numbered” | ZeroHedge
Not Responsible For the Shit You Experience While Reading This
An Illustrated Guide to Knocking Out Viruses
The best way to reduce your carbon footprint is one the government isn’t telling you about | Science
Number Facing Starvation Tripled In the Past Decade
BREAKING: Trump Elevates Fossil Fuels in National Security Plan — Global Research
The Myth of Progress | Samuel Miller McDonald
Trump administration switches from murdering fishermen to piracy
The Economy Is Completely Rigged — Here’s How
You are not imagining it, the world’s insects are rapidly vanishing
Waking Up To What Others Don’t See
How We Fail: The Empire Is Forever
Prepare For Coming World War, NATO Chief Says | ZeroHedge
Putin Doubles Down On Backing Maduro As US Prepares To Seize More Oil Tankers| ZeroHedge
US ‘Answers’ China By Sending Pair Of Nuclear-Capable Bombers Over Sea Of Japan | ZeroHedge
The Seven Richest Billionaires Are All Media Barons
Why Is Europe Feverishly Preparing For World War III?
Technological Somnambulism and the Failure of the Scientific Imagination
Sunk Cost and the Superorganism — by Nate Hagens
A Seneca Cliff for Global Democracy? — by Ugo Bardi
Gringo Piracy in the Caribbean? Venezuela Strikes Back — Global Research
The Gravity of the Situation — by Steven J. Newbury
Why Some People See Collapse Earlier Than Others
Deadly heatwaves will intensify for 1,000 years after net zero | Climate & Capitalism
Propane shortages during cold outbreak trigger state of emergency in New Jersey, U.S. — The Watchers
60,000 multimillionaires own 3 times more wealth than half the world’s population
To Feed Data Centers, Pennsylvania Faces a New Fracking Boom — Yale E360
BREAKING: Canada Just Launched a 300,000-Person Civilian Army. Ask Yourself Why.
Ozymandias on the Potomac: American Decline in the Fossil Fuel Age | Common Dreams
Don’t worry, be happy. All those who feared a dystopian future got it wrong
Dearth Of Progressive Voices In Canada
2025: The Year Energy Sanity Returned | Schiff Sovereign
Orbital Data Centers Will “Bypass Earth-Based” Constraints | ZeroHedge
Martin Armstrong: Hyperinflation is Probable
Let’s not become attached to collapse — Prof Jem Bendell
How Much Additional Power Will Data Centers Need by 2035? — MishTalk
A Frantic Search for the Pause Button
Ecology, Public Health, and Peak Oil
At the Beginning of Credit Destruction Cycle — Ed Dowd | Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog
Three Years Ago I Predicted Europe’s Collapse. I Was Right.
Science Snippets: Nanoplastics Proliferate in the World Ocean
An Illustrated Guide to Growing Food
Links of the Month: December 2025 | how to save the world
The flatness of it all. — by Claire Hartnell
America’s 350,000 Unregulated Chemicals — by Justin McAffee
Cory Doctorow and How To Get Control Of Technology
The Wile E. Coyote Insight: What We “Know” Is More Dangerous Than the Unknown
AI/Data Center Backlash Vs. the ‘Progress’ Myth
How To Prepare Your Apartment for a Four Day Winter Blackout
Linking the Past with the Present: Resources, Land Use, and the Collapse of Civilizations
Pruning for the Future — by Nate Hagens
Ford Takes Record $19.5 Billion Charge As EV Bet Implodes, Pivots To Grid Batteries | ZeroHedge
Brussels Slams Brakes On 2035 Combustion Engine Ban | ZeroHedge
Decoupling …… again — degrowthUK
The Consequences of Stealing Russia’s Money — Global geopolitics
Earth’s oceans have officially crossed another crucial planetary boundary
How the Pandemic Accelerated the Geopolitical Breakdown | naked capitalism
Toxic chemicals in food cost the world $3 trillion a year, new report finds
U.S. Special Forces Attack and Destroy Chinese Cargo in the Indian Ocean
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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