The Bulletin: August 6–12, 2026
This past week’s articles of interest…
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BP Retreats Further From Green Energy With Archaea Sale | ZeroHedge
How Economic Power Has Shifted Over The Past 200 Years | ZeroHedge
De-industrialization | Damn the Matrix
The Optimization Trap: Why Too Much Efficiency Makes Us Fragile
Energy Predicaments and Prospects Revisited
Lawrence Wilkerson: Trump Sacrifices Republic to Preserve the Empire
Where’s The Water? — by Erin Brockovich and Suzanne Boothby
Mining Threat Persists in Raja Ampat
The looming crisis bankers will not escape from
Affordability, Not Scarcity, Is the Real Energy Crisis
China’s Power Demand Hits Records as Heatwave Grips Key Regions | OilPrice.com
End Of Cheap Food? Five Forces Set To Drive Grocery Bills Even Higher | ZeroHedge
Our Anthropocentrism and Psychology
Watching My Country Essentially Commit Suicide
Mexico Bans Fracking in Key Shale Basin | OilPrice.com
Winter Is Coming: Europe Faces Twin Diesel And NatGas Crunch | ZeroHedge
Even If the Strait of Hormuz Opens, the Damage to the Persian Gulf Energy Infrastructure is Enormous
Cognitive Dissonance Underlies Oil and Gas Push
Civilizations Fall When This Mechanism Activates
The implosion of the American empire has begun — by Ismaele
A Deep Time Perspective on Climate Change | Art Berman
Why Haven’t the Tanks Run Dry? What Investors Are Missing in Oil.
Visualizing 75 Years Of America’s Electricity Transition | ZeroHedge
The Earth Beneath US — ZNetwork
Trump Forgot to Run a Massive Propaganda Before Attacking Iran
ADNOC Reports 15 Vessel Attacks as Hormuz Risks Mount | OilPrice.com
The Transition Nobody Will Finance | Collapse of Industrial Civilization
Seeing Through the Paradigm — by Ernesto Van Peborgh
The Green New Deal is not a solution for the real problem: Overshoot
THE DEEPER DIVE: Oil Pressure on Prices Is Rising Dramatically and Has Just Entered the Danger Zone
Government Propaganda Is a Trojan Horse — American Thinker
Decoding our rain: disentangling ocean, land and trees
Financial Armageddon: The Day the Yen Stopped Being Money and Became a Weapon of Mass Destruction
Why Nuclear Power can’t replace fossil fuels | Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse
Lake Mead Hits Lowest Level On Record Amid Decade-Long Western Drought | ZeroHedge
Fire Erupts At Saudi Aramco’s Jazan Refinery As Iran-Backed Houthis Claim Drone Strike | ZeroHedge
Energy, Water, & Climate Change are interdependent | Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse
World War Three is Not Underway, It’s Much Worse Than That
Karin Kneissl: Energy Wars & the Coming Collapse of Europe
How Climate Change Fuels Increasing Wildfire Disasters
How the West Destroys Itself by Conflating Morality with Moralism
Ex Oil-Engineer Turned Climate Whistleblower: We Face COLLAPSE | Aaron Bastani Meets Kevin Anderson
CALAMITY: Oil Blows out. So Does War. So Does Finance. So Will Food.
Europe’s Next Energy Crisis Won’t Be a War, It’ll Be Peak Oil | OilPrice.com
A Dying West is Eating Its Children
[Essay] What Can’t Be Rebuilt: Irreversible Stakes of an Uncertain Future
Is Cognition Inherently Dangerous? | Do the Math
US Fires on Panama Ship. Result Is Upward Pressure on the Price of Oil — MishTalk
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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