The Bulletin: January 14-20, 2026
This past week’s articles of interest…
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You Can’t Taper a Ponzi Scheme
Reclaiming Environmentalism: Saner Responses to the Ecological Crisis – Prof Jem Bendell
Trump is Serious About Greenland – Global Research
BREAKING: Trump DOJ Raids Washington Post Reporters Home To Find Out Who Her “1,169” DOJ Sources Are
More fool you: 10 modus operandi of the mass manipulators – OffGuardian
Why Can’t I Have My Own Money Printer? – by Quoth the Raven
Crude Stocks Rise Most In Two Months As US Oil Production Finally Drops | ZeroHedge
Tensions Surge in the Middle East
Doug Casey: Comparing the 1930s and Today- International Man
The Race to the Bottom | Art Berman
On Nature’s Complexity and Human Morality
How Narrative Shapes Reality: Good Cops and Bad Cops in China and in the US
The US War Machine is Earth’s Greatest Enemy
Water crisis hits Türkiye’s capital as drought, infrastructure issues deepen
A Gangster’s-Eye View of Global Power by Jayati Ghosh – Project Syndicate
At the Crossroads We Pretended Not to See
The Republic is Over – by Justin McAffee
Why Civilisations Collapse: The Existential Paradox of Innovation
Why an invasion of Greenland might cause the end of Canada
Systemic Stupidity Part III: The Physics of Scale
What Breaks First When Systems Get Tight
The Sustainability Conference Where Everyone was Given Truth Serum
Regenerating Earth Through Collapse | by Joe Brewer | Jan, 2026 | Medium
Collapse of Western Power and the Global System in 2026
The Blogs: The Middle East’s Next War Will Be Over Water | Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez
Energy, population, and production – by Jeff McFadden
Critical minerals put East Africa back on Washington’s map | Geeska
We Are Slaves, We Don’t Even Know It
Beyond The Mordor Economy – The Honest Sorcerer
The Real Reason Why Human Population Must, and Will, Crash
The World After Collapse: Healthy, Competent Societies | how to save the world
Academic Entropy: Why the Experts Can’t See the End of the World [EARLY ACCESS]
Is Oil The Ultimate Contrarian Trade in 2026!- Josh Young
NATO’s Greenland Theatrics and Arctic Expansionism – Global Research
German Nuclear Power Phase Out a “Huge Mistake” per Chancellor Merz
Minimal Soil Disturbance Means Maximum Life
Narrative Control Made Easy: Us versus Them
Why Venezuela Was Never Really About Oil – by Deirdre Kent
It Will Happen Suddenly – Doug Casey’s International Man
Gold And Silver Explosion: Something Big Is Happening | ZeroHedge
Are bees booming or dying off? – by Hannah Ritchie
Sabotaging American Fascism – by Max Wilbert – Biocentric
Inside the Brain of a Dictator: Why Trump Will Ultimately Use the Nuclear Codes
Ditching Dualism #9: Reductionism | Do the Math
BREAKING: Canada Has Quietly Modelled a U.S. Invasion — And That Should Terrify You
6 Takeaways from an Actuarial Warning on Planetary Insolvency
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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