The Bulletin: December 31-January 6, 2025
This past week’s articles of interest…
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USA is the worst pirate on Earth: Trump is stealing Venezuela’s oil
The Metacrisis Is Metaphysical: The Fallacies That Doom Our Solutions | Art Berman
2026: Expect a very uneven world economic downturn
Doug Casey on Anarchy and Voluntaryism – International Man
The West has found a way to legally end free speech
Hundreds Of Thousands In Moscow Experience Rare ‘Total Blackout’ After Drone Wave | ZeroHedge
Climate Change is Dead – by Ricky Lanusse 🇦🇶
Electric Vehicles and Nuclear Power Are Fighting Over One Obscure Mineral | OilPrice.com
The Problem with Machado: Assange Sues the Nobel Foundation – Global Research
“The Fed is lying to your face” Top Economist Warns – YouTube
Pretense, Staging, Expediency: the “Solutions” That Implode the Whole Shebang
Anyone knows a good plumber? – by No1
An Apostate Against the Machine-God
Alex Krainer: New York Times Reports CIA Attacks on Russian Tankers
What Have You Done For Your Land This Week?
The Hidden Dopamine Trap – by A Midwestern Doctor
Dropping the Façade: Propaganda, Power, and the Absurdity of Empire
Video: Monroe Doctrine 2.0. Canada and the Militarization of the Americas – Global Research
Why Lists of Extinctions Travel Farther Than Explanations
Trump Is “Locked and Loaded” and Ready to Save Iranian Protesters – MishTalk
SMRs Explained: Real-World Economics, Fuel Bottlenecks, and the Race to Scale | OilPrice.com
The end of 2025 must be the end of the inane rule of climate ‘optimism’ – resilience
BREAKING: Trump Regime Attacks Venezuela, Kidnap’s Maduro Family, Killing Hundreds
The Collapse Chronicle: Collapse In Review, 2025
On Overpopulation and Overconsumption | Damn the Matrix
Five Takeaways From The US’ “Special Military Operation” In Venezuela
Venezuela Attack Raises WW3 Risk
America bombs Venezuela – by No1 – Gold and Geopolitics
Venezuela Invasion, It’s the Oil Stupid! How Much Can We Steal? – MishTalk
Trump kidnaps Venezuela’s president to steal the country’s oil
Visualizing All Of The World’s Oil Reserves By Country | ZeroHedge
Coal Remains King in India While Exports Optimize Domestic Stock | OilPrice.com
While the World Watched Venezuela, China Quietly Won the Oil War | John Mearsheimer
Wetiko: The Psychosis Eating The World Alive
OPEC+ Reaffirms Output Pause as Eight Producers Cite Market Stability | OilPrice.com
Retro-Colonialism: The Thermodynamics of Plunder
Five(ish) charts that give some context to Venezuelan oil
Trump Now Says “We Need Greenland for National Security” and the EU Knows That – MishTalk
Ecomodernism: Modernity Without Ecology | Art Berman
Part 4 Raven Rock. The government abandons plans to aid the public, only the government to survive
Kill the King, Win the Game. The World as a Chessboard
Why collapse is inevitable – by William E Rees
Science Snippets: Megadrought Driven by Our Collective Actions
“We Just Want the Oil” – Dean Blundell
Keep it in the ground? – by Zeke Hausfather
Denmark Freaks Out Over Possible ‘Venezuela Playbook’ In Greenland, Warns ‘End Of NATO’ | ZeroHedge
We Must Face the Escalating Polycrisis
Fascists and Authoritarians Carving Up a Dying Planet, or The World We’re in Now
Same playbook, different target – by No1
Centrus Energy Soars After DOE Awards $2.7 Billion For Uranium Enrichment | ZeroHedge
‘Don’t Be a Duck’: Corporate Media Outlet Reports Collapse
Monetary Policy Is Monetary Piracy
Systemic Stupidity: Why the Political Machine Selects Against Survival [EARLY ACCESS]
From capitalist food systems to degrowth agrarian futures
Samuel Huntington Is Getting His Revenge
Ecological impacts of the war machine
The Realist’s Protocol: Why Physics Does Not Negotiate
Behavioral Thermodynamics Part 1: Beyond the 4th Law? (Essay)
Global Risks Report 2025: Humanity Approaching Point of No Return as Polycrisis Deepens | PeakD
We Can Discern Cycles and Waves, But Not the Outcomes
The Unthinkable Is Now Thinkable: Canada is Preparing to Defend Against US Military Incursion
The Real Reason Why the US Overthrew Venezuela
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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