The Bulletin: December 17-23, 2025
This past week’s articles of interest…
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A slow-motion water crisis is unfolding around the world
Should We Be Talking About Collapse
This Is What It Looks Like When Shit Hits The Fan
Cognitive Collapse: A First Reconnaissance – Ecosophia
Tools for growing the commons – resilience
All the Dominant Models Are Collapsing
The Global Landlord: How the US Just Abolished Sovereignty
Visual Math – Cliodynamica by Peter Turchin
67% Of Canadians Say Cost Of Living In Their Region Is Worst They’ve Seen | ZeroHedge
Memes Are The Masks of Fear | Art Berman
Exergy Economics | Tânia Sousa
Money Is About To Get Cheaper But Life Is About To Get Even More Expensive
From Tehran to Chennai, a city without water is a harbinger of a thirsty planet – The Economic Times
Global Temperature in 2025, 2026, 2027 – by James Hansen
US Approves Largest Taiwan Arms Package In History At Over $11BN | ZeroHedge
Assange Takes Nobel Foundation To Court
Behavioral Thermodynamics Part 1: Beyond the 4th Law?
A Major Climate Unknown: Natural Ecosystems
Food Freedom and What It Means
The Agency Trap: Why We Must Fail To Survive
Insane Financial Imbalances and Social Revolution
AI/data center backlash vs. the “progress” myth
Venezuela Defense Minister Vows To Defend the ‘Homeland at Any Cost’ After Trump’s Blockade Threat – News From Antiwar.com
Ontario and New York Sign Agreement to Build Nuclear Energy and Grow Economies
Watch: US Naval Forces Now Have Suicide Drones | ZeroHedge
China Says Region Closer To War Due To US Record Taiwan Arms Package | ZeroHedge
Western elites fear a ‘globalised intifada’ because they are its targets, not Jews
We’re Fucked, Let’s Escalate – by Max Wilbert – Biocentric
The next Carrington Event would hit a very different world
About Stock Buybacks and Other Scams
Garden First, Ask Questions Later
Gunboat Diplomacy Accelerated: US Seizes Another Oil Tanker Off Venezuela’s Coast | ZeroHedge
Japan Just Raised Rates Again—And a Slow-Motion Crisis Has Begun
How do you deal with the acceptance of collapse?
The Jacques Baud Case: Weaponisation Of Sanctions, An Attack On Free Speech
The End of Reason – The Honest Sorcerer
Jacques Baud is being Sanctioned—and Switzerland is Fast Asleep
James Hansen: A “Super” Record is Coming in 2027
Decoupling, Dumb and Dumber | Art Berman
The challenge of food ecomodernism: a puzzle outlined – resilience
The AI Bubble – by Matt Orsagh – Degrowth is the Answer
The EIA Thinks OPEC Can Pump More Than Anyone Expected | OilPrice.com
Beijing Condemns Trump’s Gunboat Diplomacy After China-Bound Tanker Seizure | ZeroHedge
Maduro Must Go, DHS Secretary Noem Says, Vows More Tanker Intercepts | ZeroHedge
The Theology of Thermodynamics: Why the Meek Inheriting the Earth is a Biophysical Fact (WIP)
Financial Bubbles: How They Make Us Poorer
The Blockade of Venezuela and the Collapse of the Global Maritime Order – Global Research
The Delusion Of Human Separation
US Mulls Sanctions On Spanish-Flagged Vessels | ZeroHedge
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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