The Bulletin: February 18-24, 2026
This past week’s articles of interest…
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Why Cities Won (History 3,000 BCE)
America’s Oligarchic Techno‑Feudal Elite Are Attempting to Build a Twenty‑First‑Century Fascist State | Collapse of Industrial Civilization
Oil Surges On Report Warning US-Iran War Is Far Closer Than Americans Realize | ZeroHedge
CO2 as an Ecosystemic Poison – by Ugo Bardi – Living Earth
The Myth of the West: Democracy and the State
5 soundbites from James Hansen’s latest warning
Derrick Jensen – Endgame (complete lecture in one file)
The Comprador Calculus: Why Europe’s Elites Applaud Their Own Vassalage
The Copper Curtain | Art Berman
Brits Spied on Me, According to Memo Marked “STRICTLY PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL”
IEA Chief Warns Fracturing Global Order Is Splintering Energy Policy | OilPrice.com
Geopolitical Thermodynamics: Why We Misdiagnose Imperial Japan
Limits to Growth Update – by Ian Sutton – Net Zero by 2050
‘Energy Transition’ is the Story We Tell Ourselves While Fossil Fuels Keep Expanding
Biodiversity on the Brink: Ecological Rhythms & Human Urgency – Jonathan Tonkin | Rapid Response #20
Video: Attempting to Control Nuclear Weapons
Going Green, Transitioning, Banning
There is no “away” to run to – by Kathleen McCroskey
When the Boom Hits the Wall: A Commercial Reality Check on Fossil Expansion
When, How, & Why Complex Societies Collapse – Joseph Tainter | #64
Complexity, energy, people and inequality
Financial WMD: How Iran Could Trigger a Global Economic Collapse
The Jevons Paradox, Marx, the Modern Left and Collapse
The Entropy Machine – by Adrian Lambert
Why Social Science Cannot Read a Phase Diagram
Resource Insights: The chemical society and its discontents: Ozone layer edition
Seyed M. Marandi: “War for Survival” – Iran’s Strategy as War Is Imminent
Debt & Sin – by Nathan Knopp – System Failure
Heating Our Greenhouse with Manure – by Brett Gallagher
The Imperial Noble Lie: Translating Thermodynamic Collapse into Geopolitical War
Overshoot: The World Is Hitting Point of No Return on Climate – Yale E360
$845 Trillion Derivative Crisis as U.S. Banks Prepare for Bail-Ins | ZeroHedge
Are we Too Many? Or are we Going to Become Too Few?
Book Review: 22 Cells In Nuremberg A Psychiatrist Examines the Nazi Criminals
Alberta And Switzerland To Vote On Immigration Control Amid Growing Backlash | ZeroHedge
The second after – by No1 – Gold and Geopolitics
The Coming Struggle: How to Survive (and Even Thrive) in a Brutal Economy
‘Civilization’ and the human maladaptation syndrome
Wide Boundary News: Biodiversity Depletion, Iran & the Straight of Hormuz, and the Green Wedge
The Question of Being A Decent Person in an Indecent World
Let’s Eat Cake! 3. Farms as Doom Victims
The Compartmental Fracture of Art Berman
[Essay] The Biophysical Pyramid – by Nate Hagens
Fossil fuel pollution’s effect on oceans comes with huge costs » Yale Climate Connections
Economist Says the World is Preparing to Pull the Rug on the US Dollar
The Rights of Nature: A Short History of Ownership
Former Norway PM Attempts Suicide After Epstein-Linked Raid, Corruption Charges: Report | ZeroHedge
Escobar: The Discombobulated West | ZeroHedge
US Right to Know publishes blockbuster report today on Bayer’s influence peddling
“Cruel Optimism” – by elba – Our New Reality The Plasticene
Robbing the Ocean Blind – by Tony Povilitis – SCALE DOWN
War with Iran is Likely More Imminent than you Think
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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