The Bulletin: April 15-21, 2026
This past week’s articles of interest…
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Western Australia Establishes Strategic Fuel Reserve | ZeroHedge
The Avatar and the Entropy Dump: Why the ‘Deep State’ Needs a Mad King
Consciousness Of Sheep News: Spring 2026
Means Of Extinction: Global Mass Starvation
The fertilizer shortage, and it isn’t just nitrogen
Earth is Heating at a Rate of Over One Million Hiroshima Bombs Every Day!
You Are Eating Plastic. Every Single Day.
Dissecting Corpses of Past Empires
They Always Tell You Why The Empire Uses Violence, But Never Why Its Enemies Do
Beyond Oil: Global Food Crisis Emerging From Hormuz — Why Brazil and BRICS Matter
The Petrogas-Dollar: The Secret US Strategy Behind the Iran War
Iran, China & Russia vs Trump – Glenn Diesen’s Substack
Knowing more, understanding less – by Jonathan Tonkin
IMF Warns Australia Set For One Of Highest Inflation Rates In Developed World | ZeroHedge
Drought Engulfs 60% Of U.S. As Farmers Begin Spring Planting | ZeroHedge
LAST PLANTING SEASON: What to Grow Now for the Famine Ahead
Critical shortage of jet fuel, European airline market has 6 weeks of supply remaining
China At An Ecohydrological Crossroads
How to Think About the Future (Part 1): Changing the Future Starts with How You Think
The Fantasy of Space Colonization: The Spaceship We’re Already On – The Great
Predatory economies in the Spodocene – by Ismaele
Hormuz Blockade, Fertilizer Shock, Food Crisis — What Most People Don’t See Coming
Miscalculation, Hypocrisy & The Collapse of Western Power
Warning: US Petroleum Inventories Are Being Raided
Greenwashing and Resistance Tactics with Justin McAffee and Jeff Gibbs
This Is Your Brain On Chaos | how to save the world
Surviving the The Coming Struggle: Book Recommendations
One Of Us Is Delusional, But Which One?
Super El Niño Is Coming: Climate Denial Is About To Run Out Of Weather
Canada’s Carney Revives Online Censorship Bill
Sharon Astyk: Thoughts From Last Nights Energy Crisis Zoom
Below the Surface: the Structural-Demographic Roots of the Current Political Crisis
The small water cycle papers – by Alpha Lo
Population: Can Collapse be Predicted? – by Ugo Bardi
A Banana Republic: A Rogue Nation Pretending to Be a Democracy, “Addicted to War” – Global Research
What the AMOC Shutdown Means for You. – by Matt Orsagh
What comes after Civilization ? From Cosme via Civitas to the Planetary Civium
Fuel Crisis – Nathan’s Media Coverage Roundup
Kuwait Declares Force Majeure as U.S. Seizure of Iranian Ship Escalates Tensions | OilPrice.com
Strait Of Hormuz Will Cause “Ripple Effects” For The Whole World
The Thermodynamic Endgame of Industrial Civilization
Monday Lament: Overwhelming Complexity – by Mike Meyer
How Is This Possible? Seriously
Mything out on ‘sustainable development’— why it ain’t happening
[Essay] Oil 101: What You Actually Need to Know About Oil
Science Snippets: Self-Reinforcing Feedback Loop Triggered
Biden Official: Biden Was Preparing To Bomb Iran If Re-Elected
Gold vs. An Erupting Financial Volcano
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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