The Bulletin: March 4-10, 2026
This past week’s articles of interest…
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Tucker Carlson unpacks many of the hidden forces affecting the war and the aftermath.
[Essay] The Consumption Pyramid – by Nate Hagens
Iran Just Closed the Strait of Hormuz
What Caused Humans to Destroy the Earth? | how to save the world
The End of the Bureaucratic Era – Ecosophia
QatarEnergy Declares Force Majeure As One-Fifth Of Global LNG Supply Goes Dark | ZeroHedge
It Is Never a War. It Is Always a Business – George Tsakraklides
Introducing: Who’s That Source? – by Matt Taibbi
The Collapse Chronicles. 05.03.26
Strait of Hormuz Oil Bottleneck, Crude Jumps, Tanker Costs Soar 900 Percent – MishTalk
Operation Epic Fury – Cliodynamica by Peter Turchin
Great War in a Time of Economic Collapse
Free Download: Creating a Family Emergency Plan On-Pager
Systemic Risk: A 12-Order Cascading Analysis of a Zero-Flow Strait of Hormuz Closure
THE NORD STREAM ASSASSINATION: A Thermodynamic Bailout
Narratives, Illusions, and Questioning
Countdown to Global Collapse Has Begun
The Dead Hedge–An Old Idea Gets a New Lease of Life
The Stupidest—and Potentially Most Dangerous—War Since 1945
Problems Developing With Uranium Supply
The Planet in Check: Time to Rethink Everything
The Last Empire: Why the Trump-Netanyahu War Signals the Fall of a Civilisation
The Bretton Whoops – by No1 – Gold and Geopolitics
Operation Epic Folly(Fury) – Part 2: The Punic Wars and Impending Nuclear Escalation
Oil Surges $10 to $91 a Barrel, Trump Discuses Manipulating Oil Futures – MishTalk
Rewilding, beavers, and water restoration : Derek Gow
Russia Threatens to Redirect LNG from Europe to Friendly Countries Like China – MishTalk
Cement, Drugs, And Oil – How The Iran Conflict Could Disrupt Global Supply Chains | ZeroHedge
How Empires Turn Cruel Before They Die – by Ugo Bardi
The Unfortunate Truth About ‘Renewable’ Solar Energy
THE THERMODYNAMIC DIMPLE: The Atmospheric Pothole Breaking Europe’s Grid
Kuwait Petroleum Declares Force Majeure on Sales of Oil and Refinery Products – MishTalk
Crash a la Mode – Charles Hugh Smith’s Substack
How the Iran War Ends | Art Berman
Jeffrey Sachs: We Are Now in the Early Days of World War III
Iran War: What We’re In For and Why Logic Is Your Friend
Has the Great Taking Begun? – John Rubino’s Substack
What Actually Kills Village Projects? We’re Finally Getting Data
Kremlin: “We Are Not Neutral. We Support Iran.” | ZeroHedge
Population Collapse: Learning from Ireland – by Ugo Bardi
Amazon Rainfall Declines with Deforestation
Last Week in Collapse: March 1-7, 2026
Hormuz Crisis Deepens One Week In
Crude Jumps By $25 to $115 in Biggest Oil Crisis Since 1970s – MishTalk
Get Ready for Warflation – Grace Blakeley
Homesteading: Small Wonders – by Dr. Robert W. Malone
The Naphtha Heart Attack: Why $120 WTI is a Ghost Signal Preceding a Negative-Price Inversion
Anthropic Did the Right Thing. That’s the Problem.
“Let Them Keep Playing Games”: Iran Warns Of $200 Crude Oil | ZeroHedge
Iran, En-Lai, Napoleon, Mike Tyson and Model Collapse
This Is The End – by Kathleen McCroskey
Coal Prices Surge As Energy Shock Forces Power Plant Fuel Switching In Exposed Countries | ZeroHedge
Science Snippets: Freshwater Declines As Continents Dry
Hormuz War and What Lies Beneath Interpreting the Commercial Logic Behind USA’s Iran Gambit
A World of Hurt | how to save the world
Seyed M. Marandi: Iran Rejects Ceasefire – Demands New Status Quo
The Fragile Systems That Keep Modern Life Running
Wide Boundary News: The Iranian War, Rising Gas Prices, and the Single Point Failure
We Are About To Discover How Interconnected Everything Is
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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