This past week’s articles of interest…

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EXCLUSIVE: Secret Leak Suggests Elites Are Planning a New War | Daily Pulse

Borrowed Time: The ‘Extend and Pretend’ Economy Must End

Organic agriculture at crossroads — by Gunnar Rundgren

Accepting Loss as Fair

How Many People Can Live on Earth?

Trump and the Iran Deal — Another Programmed Deception

America’s Global War

Putin Warns the West: Russia is Ready — by Larry C Johnson

How much deforestation is your country importing through trade?

EROEI — Running out of Easy — by Seeing Clearly

We Weren’t Expecting This: What Does a Super El Niño Mean For the Climate?

Is Europe Preparing for War? — Judge Napolitano & Glenn Diesen

Top Economist: What’s Coming Is WORSE Than the 1973 Inflation Crisis

Medvedev Calls For International Law Mechanism Banning Western Military Bases Abroad | ZeroHedge

Bodycam Shows Moment Cops Arrested a Man for Speaking Too Long at Data Center Meeting

Can Energy Become Money? — by John Hunt, MD

What Finite Looks Like

13–18 DAYS: THE PRACTICAL DIESEL BUFFER… Does It Preclude Bombing Iran?

What Could Climate Change Change? — by Steve Keen

BREAKING: The Supreme Court Just Derailed Thousands of Lawsuits Against Monsanto Over Glyphosate and Cancer — Global Research

Mordor to the Long Repair: How Might Daily Life Feel in the Next Decades?

The Big Picture — The Honest Sorcerer

Healthy Soil is the Foundation of on Land and is Key to Cooling Our Climate

The road not that cannot be taken — by William E Rees

The Collapsologs Diner

Debt Tsunami: The Alan Greenspan Legacy | The Epoch Times

Regenerative Agriculture: A National Revolution or an Experiment?

Architecture of the Cool

The Only Way Is Down

The Shooting in the Strait Ain’t over, But…

Past, Present, and Future Dead — by Max Wilbert

Overheated food prices

Gilbert Doctorow: Kremlin Hawks Demand Escalation Against Ukraine & Retaliation Against Europe

Below replacement fertility is fine — by Mark Fabian

Heat Dome Halts German Trains After Track Sealant Liquifies | ZeroHedge

They Are Working: Forests, Rainfall, and Rethinking “Sustainable Forestry”

54 Years Ago We Were Warned

Rights groups criticise Turkey protest ban ahead of Nato summit | Middle East Eye

Towards a degrowth policy sequence

Why Oil Shortages May Bring Lower Prices — and Recession

Catabolic Capitalism: Profiting From Collapse — CounterPunch.org

The verdict is in. Degrowth is the only path that lands humanity back inside the planetary boundaries.

The Present We Cannot Bear: Modernity, Progress, and the Stories We Tell to Escape Reality | Art Berman

Welcome To the Blackout — The George Tsakraklides View

[Essay] Uphill Futures in a Downhill World — by Nate Hagens

[Saving the world from bad ideas: the continuing failure of food ecomodernism

[Our Forests Are Being Degraded at Public Expense. Here’s How That Works.

[#323: They first make mad | Surplus Energy Economics

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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