The Bulletin: April 22-28, 2026
This past week’s articles of interest…
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Food, Energy, Capitalism, Collapse
Who Owns the Seed? – by Dr. Robert W. Malone
Manipulators Understand That Narrative Control Is Everything
The Ecological Crisis: An Unsolvable Wicked Problem
The Truly Sustainable Alternative, Julia Steinberger
Diagnosing earth’s tipping points: where we stand in the Anthropocene
Our Way Of Life Is Coming To An End
Oil 201: What Happens When the Oil Stops Flowing (essay)
Clouds: A Neglected Reservoir Of Pesticides
Everyone Else Is Rationing. We’re Still Motoring On.
PIMCO Privately Lends Over $10 Billion To Dollar-Strapped Gulf States | ZeroHedge
Iran Announces First Hormuz Toll Fees Successfully Transferred To Central Bank | ZeroHedge
NO KINGS, SAME THRONE – by Ismaele – GeoPolitiQ
The Myth of American Energy Independence
How to Think About the Future (Part 2): Four Variables Shaping the Coming Decades
Oil Infrastructure Warfare, Energy Attrition, And The Struggle For Global Primacy
RED ALERT: The Food Crisis Is Already Here—And No One Is Talking About It | Daily Pulse
Americans Think The Environment is Getting Worse. The Data Show Otherwise
Well Being: Source Your Food More Deliberately
A Very Brief History of Taxation and the State | Mises Institute
When Predictability Collapses, a Plan Is Good But Adaptability Is Even Better.
Preparedness Is Shifting From Storage to Skills – by Craig
The World’s Refineries Are Burning—and It’s Not the War
The Largest Energy Shock On Record Is Worse Than You Think
No One Tracks the Total – by Lyle Lewis – Lyle’s Substack
Resource Insights: The Iran conflict and our Wile E. Coyote moment
Dire Straits, A Shock That Reveals the System
Financial Crash Expert: A Once In a Lifetime Crisis Is Coming – YouTube
World Fossil Fuels Discoveries and Production
Next Stop: Strait of Malacca – Global geopolitics
The Roman Empire and the Western Empire: Collapsing Along Parallel Paths
Earth Destroying Corporations Flood Oregon Election with Dark Money
Why Iran Can’t Be Bombed, Invaded, or Nuked Into Submission
The AMOC Is About to Become Famous Again, and Almost Everyone Will Tell the Wrong Story
Alastair Crooke: Iran War Is Now a Global War for World Order
Hope Is the Most Socially Acceptable Form of Gaslighting
The small farm technology challenge – by Gunnar Rundgren
Texas Responds to Federal Demand for Mining
Three Recent Examples Of AI Being Used For Empire Propaganda
The Year Our Civilization Began to Die
First Of Many? UAE Exits OPEC As Iran Chaos Triggers Nationalistic Realignment Among Producers
[Essay] Oil 301: The World After Cheap Energy
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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