The Bulletin: September 10–16, 2026
This past week’s articles of interest…
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U.S. Finds A War It’s Willing to Declare
Animals regulate water, land, and climate : ecologist and wildlife consultant Simon Mustoe
Climate Attribution Has Reached the Death Count
The Internet is Evil — by Max Wilbert — Biocentric
The Density Threshold: The Parable of The Wolf
THE PRIVILEGE MACHINE HAS NO STEERING, REVERSE OR BRAKES
Planned Descent or Violent Collapse
How Many Narratives Can You Spot
Why We Need Forests For Their Vital Role in Climate Dynamics, Rain, and the Biotic Pump
The IMF Doesn’t Believe In Green Growth
Living Under a Permanent Dictatorship | how to save the world
Five Things to Know If Banks Close Tomorrow
Microplastics transport toxins and antibiotic resistance across ecosystems
The Oil Supply Shock Hiding in Plain Sight — Peak Prosperity
Sean Foo: U.S. Allies Dumping Bonds — Is the Dollar Next?
Yemen’s Ansarallah “aka Houthi’s” Take Mokha — global geopolitics
Australia Wants to Remake the Internet in the Name of “Safety”
US Officials Confirm Saudi East-West Pipeline Attacked By Drones, Badly Damaged | ZeroHedge
It’s What You Know For Sure That Just Ain’t So
The Era of Material Scarcity Has Arrived
The Human Predicament: What Would Change My Mind
West Asia is Tip-Toeing Towards Total War
Piper Sandler Sounds Alarm: Shrinking Oil Buffers To Collide With Winter Demand | ZeroHedge
Beijing Preps for Currency Wars — The Daily Reckoning
Energy Aspects: Oil Market Has Reached an “Inflection Point” | OilPrice.com
Saudi Confirms Pipeline Attack by Iraq Widening Multi-Front Iran War — MishTalk
Things that caught my eye. — New Zealand Energy
Collapse–Part 2: Holding Up the Mirror
How to Become Less Dependent on Systems You Don’t Control
Last Week in Collapse, September 6–12, 2026
Manifesto Destiny — by Jordan Perry
Campbell’s and Conagra Warn Higher Food Prices Are Coming for Rest of the Year — MishTalk
The Quiet Disappearance of Porcupines
A REGENERATIVE DESIGN STRATEGY FOR THE METACRISIS
Arab Spring 2.0? Fuel Riots Erupt In Syria As Instability Spreads Across Mideast | ZeroHedge
10 Premises Behind Collapse 2050
Are We Wrong About the Great Simplification?
Science Snippets: We are in Overshoot — by Guy R McPherson
The Seneca Collapse of the Biosphere — by Ugo Bardi
9 Terrifying Truths About Long-Term Economic Crises — Preppgroup
Since We’re All On Board the Hyperinflation Ship, Will It Sail As Expected?
$6 Diesel Flashes 2008 Warning As Energy Shock, AI Slowdown Fears Fuel Perfect Storm | ZeroHedge
And Now For the Rest of the Story
Chas Freeman: US Alliances Collapse
The Nerd Reich: Nation States | Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse
Is the AI Apocalypse for Real? — Ken Klippenstein
Societal Collapse and AI Swarms. The Apex Predator Creates Its Prey
Communicating Societal Collapse: Strategies for Effective Dialogue
The Efficiency of Ruin — Collapse of Industrial Civilization
The Internet is Evil, Part 2 — by Max Wilbert — Biocentric
The Road to Armageddon — Global Research
Money-Supply Growth Accelerated in July to a 59-Month High | Mises Institute
THE STRATEGY — by Ernesto Van Peborgh
Russia warns Denmark after near miss in Baltic Sea | Conflict News | Al Jazeera
Iran War Has the U.S. Military on the Brink of a “Breakdown”
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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