The Bulletin: October 29-November 4, 2026
This past week’s articles of interest…
If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview.
Revolution Or Extinction. The Choice Is Ours.
The Coming Programmable Cage: Money as Control Eliminating Humanity’s Last Free Exchange
The Dirty Accounting Behind The AI Bubble
A Shattered Market?: The Counterintuitive Story of the Hormuz Oil Crisis
The Strongest El Niño Ever Recorded Is Here. Who Goes Hungry Is Still a Choice, but Not for Long.
The Collapse of Western Civilization Is Accelerating
John Mearsheimer: NATO’s Choice as Ukraine Collapses: Negotiate or War with Russia
Perfect Storm for Banks — And the World — John Rubino | Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog
The Increasingly Rare Earth — by David Haggith
How Censorship Works | ZeroHedge
Matt Kennard on How Corporations Overthrew Democracy
What We Still Need to Know About New Zealand’s Dependence On Nature
The past is no longer a reliable guide to the future
The Great Known Unknown — by Tony Povilitis — SCALE DOWN
They Saw Multinational Corporate Power Coming in 1974
“Uncharted Territory”: Arctic Vortex Could Break Earliest On Record | ZeroHedge
The Persian Polycrisis Unfolds — The Honest Sorcerer
7 Ways Growth Ends — by Nate Hagens
The Climate Adaptation Myth — by Geoffrey Deihl
Maharashtra Farmers Force Government to Act
John Kiriakou: CIA Regime Change from Ukraine to Iran
If we don’t start counting insect populations, we won’t know what we’re losing
Tipping Points — by Steve Keen — Building a New Economics
Alex Krainer: The Economic & Political Unraveling of Europe
The case for ‘Climate Popularism’: A new politics for an age of ecological crisis — resilience
The First 24 Hours of a Winter Power Outage: What Actually Matters?
Oh, By The Way, Private Credit Defaults Just Hit A Record…
How to drain a planet: Globalization and free trade
Dear everyone: 1.50°C is yesterday’s news
25 Foods You Must Hide Before the Disaster
The War Propaganda Is Even Dumber This Time — And Other Notes
Third Russian Refinery Attacked By Ukraine In 3 Days | ZeroHedge
Wind Energy: Conservation or Hot Air?
WW3 Threat Expert: The Warning We Are Ignoring, The Only Way Out Is THIS! | Dr Sarah Paine
“Serious Warning”: Germany Misses November NatGas Storage Levels As Cold Snap Looms | ZeroHedge
Entropy Explained by My Granddaughter
Controlling the Narrative Is Not the Same As Controlling the World
Narrative Control: Everything Is Fake
Decarbonisation: The Fantasy upon which Net Zero is built.
The US’ Claims Of Canadian Meddling Are Interesting & Ironic
5 Signs America’s Systems are Already Breaking Down
Western News Media Propagandists Describe US Bombing Iran As “Defensive”
[Essay] 5 Things That Keep Us Whole: Staying Grounded in an Unraveling World
The Climate Story We’re Not Telling
The Oil Market Gets Trumped Again
Physical Oil Flips From Bidding War To Fire Sale As Gulf Barrels Flood Back | 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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