The Bulletin: July 8–14, 2026
This past week’s articles of interest…
If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview.
Decline on the World Stage — global geopolitics
Could there be some beauty in collapse? — Prof Jem Bendell
Your Phone Is Now Your Suitcase: Why Every U.S. Traveler Should Prepare for a Border Search
Some Monsters are Real — by Prof. Eliot Jacobson
Why we’re blind to civilizational collapse
Russia Bans Diesel Exports, Assuring Even Higher Prices | ZeroHedge
How the Global Economy Became the World Most Dangerous Battlefield
The Land-Based Living Collective | James Bullen
Cities In Dust: The Technosphere Trap Endgame
How Will We See the World Next?
Another Attack on Degrowth — by Matt Orsagh
A Habitable Planet is Possible, but We Must Tackle the Richest — Global Research
US, Japan, And South Korea Push SMR Exports For “Energy Security Needs” | ZeroHedge
Bloom Energy Defends Supply Chain, Calls Hunterbrook Report “False And Misleading”<! — → | ZeroHedge
The Water Crisis in the American Southwest || Peter Zeihan
Your computer already told on you — by No1
Government Environmental Policy: Stalling, Avoiding, and Deflecting
As the world burns, the powerful deny and delay — David Suzuki Foundation
Planet Earth: The Long Goodbye
We Are Not Mining with Renewable Energy
China Dumps US Treasuries and Buys Gold as America’s Debt Explodes
IEA Warns Escalation In US-Iran Hostilities Could Upend Oil Surplus Forecast | ZeroHedge
BP Weighs North Sea Exit Under New CEO | OilPrice.com
Our Emotional Reactions to Collapse | how to save the world
South Korea’s Fake News Law Puts a Price on Online Speech
Part II: The Sour Crude Problem: How Long Can the Salt Caverns Keep Bridging the Gap?
El Niño Lands on a System Already Collapsing
Dan Carlin on the myth of a shared reality — Big Think
The Energy Crisis is Worse Than You Think
Third World War in pieces in the name of Oil — by Ismaele
The Weekly Flail — July 11, 2026
New World Order — by Nathan Knopp — System Failure
The Collapse Chronicle 07.12.26
Last Week in Collapse: July 5–10, 2026
Surplus Elites and Revolution — by Edgar and Co.
“Planet’s Strongest Heat Dome” To Bake America’s Heartland | ZeroHedge
Between Taiga and Civilization — by Anastassia Makarieva
To Fix What’s Broken, Start Here.
Cutting Through the Climate Change Crap | Art Berman
I’m Choosing to Live Knowing That Half of Us Will Be Dead in About 25 Years
Offload Risks onto the Bottom 90% and Immiseration Follows
Brussels Has Opinions About Your Social Media Feed
They Want to Privatise Our Water
The Weekend Emergency Preparedness Challenge: One Small Task Every Saturday
Why the United States is Fighting a War in the Strait of Hormuz It Cannot Win
Before the First Switch Goes Dark
Entropy and the End of Superpowers
Oil market headed into a perfect storm? — by Alex Krainer
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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