The Bulletin: July 15–21, 2026
This past week’s articles of interest…
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I’m Being Fined $49,890.13 for Defending a Sacred Site
Evolutionary Shrinkflation — The George Tsakraklides View
Why the Media Needs Objectivity — Lean Out with Tara Henley
The Bigger Condo Bailout No One Is Discussing | The Tyee
Links of the Month: July 2026 | how to save the world
Briefing for the Descent, Revisited — Ecosophia
P:C ARCHIVES: James Dyke on Net Zero Won’t Save Us
Wetlands,: Nature’s Quiet Heroes We Can No Longer Afford to Lose
Ukraine Intensifies Attacks on Russian Tankers in the Black Sea | OilPrice.com
Russia Struggles To Deliver Crude Oil As It Hits 135 Million Barrel Traffic Jam | ZeroHedge|
Towards a Thermoeconomically Viable Food System
The New World Order Nobody Expected
AI Is the Apex of Ultra-Processed Life
A Judge Just Recommended Congress Force Apple to Build iCloud Photo Scanning
Built to flood — by Jonathan Tonkin — Predirections
Every oil and gas pipeline moves in the wrong direction — David Suzuki Foundation
Andy Burnham caves to big oil — Grace Blakeley
The next phase of shrinkflation: rolling blackouts | Schiff Sovereign
What are tank bottoms? — U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
What Can’t Be Rebuilt: Irreversible Stakes of an Uncertain Future
The Oil Price “Mystery” — The Honest Sorcerer
The Hidden Costs of Making Everything General Purpose
Land of the Waning Sun — Doomberg
BREAKING: LARRY & PEPE -China’s 72-HOUR Ultimatum to the US -Fix the Iran DEAL by Monday Or It’s WAR
The Great Normalization Nobody Declared
The Predatory Logic of the State | Mises Institute
Cyclospora is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
“We’ve Burned Through All Buffers”: Oil Traders Warn Market Running On Fumes | ZeroHedge
Plato’s Revenge — by Nathan Knopp — System Failure
Healing Back Pain and Ending The Spinal Surgery Pipeline
The Telemetry of Collapse: Sentience, Extraction, and the Immune Response to a Dying Machine
Anticipating the Breakdown of Civilizational Psychosis
The Collapse Chronicle 07.20.26
Famines Ahead? A warning we cannot ignore — by Ugo Bardi
P:C Archive: Media Complicity in the Climate Crisis
A response to the World Inequality Lab: Degrowth for global justice? — Timothée Parrique
Houthis Announce Blockade On Saudi Shipping, Threaten Drone & Missile Attacks On Kingdom | ZeroHedge
Oh My Fucking God, They’re Doing It Again
Narrative control: the collapsing authority of the state
Kazakhstan Stops Piping Oil To Black Sea After Spate Of Ukraine Drone
Tanker Strikes | ZeroHedge
We Are All on Apollo 13 — The Minority Report Publication
Finally a President Who Believes Polluters Should Pay
Signs of Collapse: Things That Can No Longer Be Fixed | how to save the world
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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