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The Bulletin: September 17-23, 2025
The Bulletin: September 17-23, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. How to think about the prospects of truly green growth | Aeon Essays UN Sessions on Solar Geoengineering Trigger Unease – Inside Climate News Book Review: Small is Beautiful – by Shane […]
The Bulletin: May 1-7, 2025
The Bulletin: May 1-7, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. A Key Longevity Antioxidant Is Fading From Our Food Supply The Limits of Business-as-Usual in AEO 2025 | Art Berman Complexity, Collapse, and the Lessons of Late Antiquity More Than 150 Nobel-Prize Winning Scientists […]
The Bulletin: January 23-29, 2025
The Bulletin: January 23-29, 2025 Collapse or Extinction: The Unholy Double Bind of the 21st Century US Will Likely Stop Buying Oil From Venezuela: Trump | The Epoch Times The End of the Regenerative Illusion? Germany’s Outgoing Economy Minister Warns Europe Not to Over-Rely on US Energy | The Epoch Times Modern Civilization is Proving […]
Odds Are High You’re Going To Need Your Survival Supplies In The Next Few Years
Odds Are High You’re Going To Need Your Survival Supplies In The Next Few Years In 2020 at the onset of the covid pandemic scare and right before the lockdowns I’ll never forget going on a grocery run on a Friday afternoon only to find near empty roads and near empty stores. The few other […]
Australian Authorities Push for Encryption Backdoors After Internet Censorship Attempt
Australian Authorities Push for Encryption Backdoors After Internet Censorship Attempt Australia ramps up calls for “accountable encryption,” pushing tech giants toward compliance with controversial backdoor legislation. In a relentless bid to give some of the most authoritarian regimes in the world a run for their money where internet censorship is concerned, Australia’s government continues to […]
Leading German politician calls for the state to issue “revocable social media licenses” for the privilege of commenting online
Leading German politician calls for the state to issue “revocable social media licenses” for the privilege of commenting online If only speech were not a right but a privilege granted selectively by the state, our democratic freedoms would be that much more secure. You may remember this man. His name is Mario Voigt, and he is […]
Ireland’s Hate Speech Bill Faces Backlash Amidst Authoritarian Fears
Ireland’s Hate Speech Bill Faces Backlash Amidst Authoritarian Fears Ireland’s proposed hate speech legislation sparks fears of an authoritarian police state, with critics voicing concerns about blurred definitions and constitutional rights. Ireland’s proposed hate speech legislation has sparked strong opposition amongst many of its citizens, with individuals complaining to their representatives about the potential risk […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XCIII–Energy Future, Part 3: Authoritarianism and Sociobehavioural Control
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XCIII January 16, 2023 (original posting date) Monte Alban, Mexico. (1988) Photo by author. Energy Future, Part 3: Authoritarianism and Sociobehavioural Control In Part 1, I argue that energy underpins everything, including human complex societies. In Part 2, I suggest that the increasing need for diminishing resources, especially finite or limited ‘renewable’ ones, […]
“One Of The Most Brilliant Explanations Of The Modern World”: Russell Brand Sits With Tucker Carlson For Explosive Interview
“One Of The Most Brilliant Explanations Of The Modern World”: Russell Brand Sits With Tucker Carlson For Explosive Interview Russell Brand flew too close to the sun, it would seem. Just as the popular British comedian was gaining massive attention for confronting global authoritarianism, he was hit with an onslaught of sexual allegations by anonymous […]
Covid Emergency, Climate Emergency: Same Thing
Covid Emergency, Climate Emergency: Same Thing Would a ‘Climate Emergency’ Open the Same Door to Authoritarian Governance as the ‘COVID Emergency?’ I am always happy to welcome new content from The Brownstone Institute, one of the last few beacons of common sense left in the world. This week they published a new piece on how, as […]
Rising authoritarianism and worsening climate change share a fossil-fueled secret
Rising authoritarianism and worsening climate change share a fossil-fueled secret Around the world, many countries are becoming less democratic. This backsliding on democracy and “creeping authoritarianism,” as the U.S. State Department puts it, is often supported by the same industries that are escalating climate change. In my new book, “Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate […]
2022’s Danger Signs: From Totalitarian Paranoia to Authoritarian Madness
2022’s Danger Signs: From Totalitarian Paranoia to Authoritarian Madness The danger signs were everywhere in 2022. With every new law enacted by federal and state legislatures, every new ruling handed down by government courts, and every new military weapon, invasive tactic and egregious protocol employed by government agents, we were reminded that in the eyes […]
Letter From a Young Canadian: Authoritarianism, Media Propaganda and Repression
Letter From a Young Canadian: Authoritarianism, Media Propaganda and Repression Rav Arora, a 20-year-old writer from Canada, offers his perspective on his government’s ongoing despotic response to the convoy protest. A protester walks in front of parked trucks as demonstrators continue to protest the vaccine mandates implemented by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on February 8, […]
Authoritarian Madness: The Slippery Slope from Lockdowns to Concentration Camps
Authoritarian Madness: The Slippery Slope from Lockdowns to Concentration Camps “All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwald, the Auschwitzes—all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled […]
Australia Sends SOS to the World
Australia Sends SOS to the World Feel Free to Send Link to this everywhere to Help Australia This is Coming to Europe and they are Desperate to do this in North America with only 5 Million dead of COVID Worldwide out of a Population of 7.8 Billion – this is the New World Order to […]
