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Articles of Interest: August 12–18, 2026
Another Earthshaking Financial Collapse Like 2000 and 2008 is Underway
Risk Kills. Will We Ever Learn?
Could the Crashing Yen Trigger Hyperinflation in the U.S.? — Global Research
Homesteading: We All Need to Become Farmers Again
US Now Expects Iran War Oil Supply Disruptions To Last Through End Of 2027 | ZeroHedge
While We Focused on Fripperies, the Foundations Have Rotted Away
The Fundamental Theorem of Doomism
The Collapse Engine : A Critical Mismatch — by Jackrabbit
The art of brainwashing — by POLITICAL SONAR — GeoPolitiQ
Our Foundations Have Rotted Away While the Bubble Benefited the Top 10%
Danube Water Levels Sink To Historic Lows | ZeroHedge
If We Could See Everything, It Would Radicalize Us All Instantly
This is How We Stop the End of the World
The ecosystems that store more carbon than you think
The Greater Good is Not Your Good
Alastair Crooke: Iran & Russia Give Up on Diplomacy & Go on the Offensive
“Worldwide Genocide”? History of U.S. Mass Killings of Civilians
Trump’s Trade War With Canada on Verge of Becoming Economically Nasty — MishTalk
Russia Threatens Reciprocal Ship Seizures as Warship Maintains Permanent Channel Presence
Thatcher warned in 1989 of a climate crisis. She did nothing. Nor will her successors
Don’t Look Up — Grace Blakeley
John Mearsheimer: U.S. Grand Strategy After Hegemony
Who Broke the World? The Villains We Choose and the Work They Give Us
Coal: The Next Chokepoint — The Honest Sorcerer
When the Tourniquet Fails: The Medical Collapse Guide That Will Haunt Your Dreams — Preppgroup
Forest Thinning Isn’t Forest Restoration
The Trillionaire’s World — by Mike Meyer — Future Search
Five Contracts, One River — Craig Tindale
The Petro-less Dollar — global geopolitics
Run to Failure: When Self-Interest Cripples Society’s Self-Correcting Mechanisms
Art Berman: The Global Energy Order Is Breaking
When the World Changes Faster Than We Can Think
Is Being Against Excess CO₂ the Same as Committing Genocide?
The Long Emergency: Unmaking Modern Life | Collapse of Industrial Civilization
Why We Defend the Systems That Are Failing Us
Tokenization of H2O, What’s Next O2
The Colorado River, Lake Powell, Lake Mead Problem Finally Hits Crisis Level — MishTalk
The Things We Once Called Someone Else’s Problem
We All Know This Civilization Is Doomed, But They Keep Telling Us Everything’s Normal
Here are some frameworks for helping each other amidst the mess
Science Snippets: Human Lives Shortened By Extreme Heat
We Are at Serious Risk of Nuclear War
Geopolitical Reality Has Ended The Rush To Renewables | ZeroHedge
14 Charts on Planetary Heating
In Our “Everything is Disposable” Economy, We’re Disposable, Too
The Most Radical Post Growth Text I Read This Year Came From Wall Street
The Yen Crisis is a Tsunami Like No Other on the Dollar Hegemony — global geopolitics
Science Snippets: No Space to Store CO2
The Political Petroleum Reserve
Scientists detect a surprising shift in human blood as atmospheric CO2 rises | ScienceDaily
The Colorado River is Running Dry
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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