The Bulletin: May 13-19, 2026
This past week’s articles of interest…
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US Unleashes Another Wave Of Crude From Strategic Reserve As Gas Prices Soar | ZeroHedge
The Price Isn’t Right: Fundamentals Don’t Support $100 Oil | Art Berman
50+ years of World Models: Collapse, Collapse, Collapse
The Uninvestable Singularity: Why the Elite Lifeboats are Thermodynamic Tombs
U.S. Wheat Crop Forecast To Hit Half-Century Low As Drought Hits Breadbasket | ZeroHedge
A World On the Precipice: The Last Oil Tanker From the Strait of Hormuz has Arrived – Now What?
Kagan and Boot: The Guilty Are Writing the Verdict – Global geopolitics
Slightly Up From Slavery – Doug Casey’s International Man
Europe’s Dependence on U.S. LNG Is Set to Surge | OilPrice.com
Change Your Culture to Change the World – by Matt Orsagh
Sink the Ships: The Only Way to Stop Deep Sea Mining
The Curse of the Sincere Believer – by Steve Keen
Canada’s Pay-to-Play Press Pass
Do You Know The Bilderberg Group? – Global GeoPolitics
The Empire’s Mask Is Slipping – Global geopolitics
OPEC Fractures, the Draft Returns, and the Age of Consequences Begins
It’s Not About “Blood Libel”, It’s About Narrative Control
Energy Shock, Oil Markets and the New Commodity Cycle
The Hormuz Hangover: Bend Not Break?
US Gasoline Inventories Plunging On Surging Exports, Resilient Demand | ZeroHedge
Science in Trouble: Plagiarism, Artificial Intelligence, and the Silly Theatre of Peer Review
The Collapse Chronicle 05.16.26
Sensemaking: Part 7 – The New Unhinged
Humanity is about to conduct a dangerous experiment on the planet
The crunch is coming – by Catherine Knight
We’re At Tank Bottom by the Fourth of July
The Second Shock Coming Out Of Hormuz
Realistic Energy Transition Is To Get Better At Using Less Of It
The Energy Density of Fuels: a Critical Concept
Cut the fuel, cut the future – by No1
We’ve Optimized Fragility, Failure, Denial–and Rage
Top Economist: The Unthinkable Is About to Happen to the Global Economy
China as the first predictive state – by Michel Bauwens
Changing the Money System. Changing Everything
Canada Rethinks Selling Its Crown Jewel Pipeline | OilPrice.com
US Oil Rig Count Jumps amid Rising Crude Prices | OilPrice.com
Shortages Are Coming – by Matt Smith @ Crisis Investing
Order out of Chaos. The reasons for a war – by Ismaele
The Origins of the Roman Empire… the Mystery Cults Migrate to a New Host
Oceans Face Triple Threat: Pollution, Warming Earth, and Biodiversity Loss
Face-Ripping Inflation Is Coming Your Way!
The Metabolic Theory of Civilisation
On spiritual questions – by Elisabeth Robson
Recession Watch: Inflation Spikes, Bonds Rebel
The Hormuz ‘dry run’: life without oil and petrochemicals
The Great Awakening – by Ernesto Van Peborgh
When “nothing to worry about” starts to look a bit too confident
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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