The Bulletin: July 22–28, 2026
This past week’s articles of interest…
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The Forty Million Barrels That Did Not Clear
“Gradually and then suddenly”- How the age of oil is ending
The Fabian Society: — by Dr. Robert W. Malone
Who Will Solve Our Real Problem — The US is a Neofeudal Autocracy
Energy Department Issues Emergency Order As Hot Weather Conditions Threaten Blackouts | ZeroHedge
The Four Pillars of Civilisation
India Blocks Mobile Internet In Central Delhi As Youth Protests Escalate | ZeroHedge
How America’s Corporate Class Became Unaccountable
$1.8 Trillion in Off-Balance Sheet AI Risk Reminiscent of Enron — MishTalk
Roger Hallam: Climate Revolution, Civil Resistance, and the Future of Democracy
Extended ALERT: Oil Supply Collapse, Exponential Debt, and Why You Must Prepare Now
Watch With Both Eyes Open: The Beauty and the Horror of Our Moment
No Oil, No Transition, No Economy — The Honest Sorcerer
We are Already Fighting World War III and You are the Target — Global Research
How the US Pulled off an Armed Robbery of the World’s Energy Supply and Created the Petrogas-Dollar
Remaking the World in an Age of Overshoot
Oil Shortages: Blunder or Plunder?
Who Canceled the Oil Apocalypse?
Colossal Financial Pyramid: Blackrock and the WEF “Great Reset”
The Rules-Based Order Was Never Meant to Apply to Its Architects — global geopolitics
Faustian Bargain — by Nathan Knopp — System Failure
All Civilisations Fall. Ours is Special Though, Obviously.
A Detective Story: How Much Work Does the Atmosphere Do?
Metacrisis Salon With Rupert Read, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Will Self, Michel Bauwens, and Jem Bendell
The Most Dangerous Climate Is The One Between Climates
More Fucked Today than Yesterday — by Prof. Eliot Jacobson
The 5% Line in the Sand: Treasury Yield That Could Break the Fiat System
Yemen is Destroying Oil Infrastructure
How Total Surveillance Conquered the Last Sanctuary of Human Privacy — Preppgroup
The Strategic Logic of American Energy Warfare and the Destruction of Global Stability
THIRTY WAYS TO BUILD A COMMUNITY — by Margi Prideaux, PhD
Feynman’s Sentence | Do the Math
[Essay] Mordor to the Long Repair: How Might Daily Life Feel in the Next Decades?
How economists ignore that we’re on a finite planet
The Secret Society Running Britain
Coming at You from All Sides: Credit Deflation AND Monetary Inflation
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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