The Bulletin: October 1–7, 2026
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That’s it. It’s all over bar the shouting… | Damn the Matrix
Europe Races To Contain Energy Crisis With Patchwork Measures | ZeroHedge
Peak oil and rising costs — by Keith Akers
The Night the EMP Almost Ended America — John Walter
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Iran War Spreads — Could Israel Fall?
Climate Uncertainty: The Coolest Year for the Rest of Our Lives?
We Have Entered Winter Unprepared — by Ernesto Van Peborgh
Larry Johnson: Europe-Russia War is now “Inevitable”
When the gasoline is gone — by Jeff McFadden
Trump’s Finger Gets Closer to Nuclear Button
The Gulf Restart Trap: Why Reopening Hormuz Won’t End the Energy Crisis
Everything Is Fine, Except For Everything
Drifting Apart, Nations and Communities
When All Else Fails, Start a War
Russia Made It Clear That Nuclear War Would Follow Any Serious Aggression Against Kaliningrad
How the Fed’s Printing Press Created Today’s Wall Street Casino
Putin: Ready To Use ‘All Weapons’ Including Nuclear, If Kaliningrad Attacked | ZeroHedge
Resource Nationalism: China Halts October Fuel Exports, Tightening Global Diesel Squeeze | ZeroHedge
Iran is going after America’s debt — by Jay Martin
Rising Complexity Cannot End In Any Other Way
Pre-emptive Nuclear War: The Role of Israel in Triggering an Attack on Iran — Global Research
Iran’s Disappearing Oil Is Becoming Everyone’s Problem | OilPrice.com
If the Strait of Hormuz Is Gushing, Why Is Trump Raiding Europe’s Diesel Tanks?
A Ringside Seat For Climate Change
A Massive EMP Could Leave 90% of the US Population at Risk, Experts Warn
Trump Just Told You How He’ll Pay Off the Debt
Your Stored Water is Probably Fine. It’s Probably Also Undrinkable.
Iran War Has Moved to Yemen For Now
Zelensky Vows To Hammer More Russian Refineries As G7 Greenlights Emergency Fuel Dump | ZeroHedge
The Biophysical Margin Call: Why the Bond Market is Pricing in a Metabolic Deficit
How We Hosted a Community Convergence
100,000 Soldiers Are Moving Toward Yemen
Who Gets the Next Barrel? — Shanaka Anslem Perera
The Five-Year Fuel Crisis: Why the World Economy Is Paying for a War It Thinks Is Ending
The Cannibal Economy — global geopolitics
Seyed M. Marandi: If Saudi Arabia Collapses, the Entire Region Will Transform
Pentagon Backs Ambitious Plan to Beam Solar Power From Space | OilPrice.com
Massive Fires Along Saudi Oil Export Pipeline, Regional Outlet Says | ZeroHedge
Video: How Empire Manufactures Global War
Trump, Inflation and a Wheelbarrow
The Petrodollar Could Break Soon and Upend the Global Financial System
Understanding Money — Bryan Bruce Investigates
America’s Wile E. Coyote Moment
Ecomodernism and the Illusion That We Are Separate From Nature
An Uncomfortable Reality: China’s Rare Earth Chokehold May Outlast This Decade | ZeroHedge
You Don’t Like the Word DegrowthThe Collapse Chronicle 10.06.26
Signs of Collapse: A Pathology of Denial
[Essay] The Human Predicament: What Would Change My Mind?
Einar Tangen: The U.S. Economic Model Is Breaking Down
The Leading Theory of How Life Began
Asia’s Gold Producers Start Hoarding Their Own Metal As Faith In The Dollar Erodes | ZeroHedge
Germany’s Former Spy Chief Arrested In Biggest Espionage Scandal Of The Century | ZeroHedge
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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