The Bulletin: August 27-September 2, 2026
This past week’s articles of interest…
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U.S. Refiners Face New Crude Squeeze as Canada Cuts Oil Sands Output | OilPrice.com
ll It Takes Is One Crack In The Lie We’ve Been Sold
Peter Kuznick: Entering the Age of Nuclear Wars
The Psychopathic Selection Hypothesis: The Rules of the Game Keep Us Trapped
Hormuz And The Law Of Diminishing Returns: When Leverage Burns | ZeroHedge
ONLY WESTERN DEMOCRACIES ARE FULLY-FLEDGED KLEPTOCRACIES
Iran and Oman Close America’s Hormuz
Global Diesel Breakdown — by Larry C Johnson
US Tungsten Scrap Export Ban Takes Effect As Global Supply Crisis Deepens | ZeroHedge
The curious case of cloud pulsing and plume exhalation
THEY KNOW WHAT’S COMING, BECAUSE THEY PLANNED IT — The Burning Platform
It Ain’t Gonna Happen — by Prof. Eliot Jacobson
Martin Armstrong: Economic Collapse Has Started & the EU Will Break Up
Tending What Remains | Collapse of Industrial Civilization
How Far Has Tech-Authoritarian State Capture Advanced?
Five Signs America Is Running on Momentum — Preppgroup
The Great Barrier Reef’s breaking point
Norway Warns Oil and Gas Output Could Collapse After 2030 | OilPrice.com
US REVIVES PIRACY To Steal Iran Oil
Just Stop Oil!?: The Economic Foundation We Ignore
America is running out of a mineral that crops cannot grow without
Nodes, Not Poles: Why the New Geoeconomic Order Is Multinodal, Not Multipolar
Ratcliffe’s Moscow Trip: A Visit Before the Storm
The Great Discontinuity Has Arrived
John Mearsheimer: Russia & Iran — The West’s Escalation Trap
I Built an App to Answer One Question: How Prepared Are You?
The Collapse Chronicle 08.30.26
Conflict Combines With Climate Change
Eight Centuries of Wages in Britain I
The Outlaw US Empire is seriously considering the use of nuclear weapons in Europe and in Iran!
The Evolution of the Inverting Scarcities
The U.S. Bombed Larak Island in Iran — Return to All-Out War?
Science Snippets: Scars in Arctic Might Require Decades to Heal
Why Venezuelan Crude Cannot Fill the SPR’s 424-Million-Barrel Gap
We Finally Got the Carbon Price Everyone Wanted and Emissions Went Up Anyway
Blame Churchill for World War II, Not Hitler — Global Research
Breaking Loose — by David Haggith — The Daily Doom
Carney’s Dagger: How Ottawa’s Trade Brinkmanship Threatens US National Security
Olduvai Theory: The End of Modern Civilization Is Near
Ominous Warning as AI Swarms Threaten Civilisation
Sacrifice for the Future or Sacrifice the Future
Trumpy’s Venezuelan Tar Baby — History’s Dumbest Heist
Sachs and Fares: Operation Economic Outcast
Is Germany Preparing To Unveil A Wealth Tax? | ZeroHedge
Thieving Matters — by Binoy Kampmark — Savage Minds
The Great Sorting | Collapse of Industrial Civilization
Climate Change Destroys Habitat for Tropical Invertebrates
[Essay] Unordinary Interventions: How to Plant Seeds for a Better Future
The Irresistible Temptations of Centralized Power
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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