JB Shreve
JB Shreve is the author of "How the World Ends: Understanding the Growing Chaos." He has been the host of the End of History podcast since 2012. He has degrees in International Relations and Middle East Studies. His other books include the Intelligence Brief Series. Regular posts and updates from JB Shreve are available at www.theendofhistory.net
The emergencies in Myanmar are piling up and pushing the country toward devastating ends. The 2021 coup took shape as the pandemic was surging across the globe. Half a year later, the effects of these two crises are compounding into a calamity for the south Asian country.
On February 1,...
From the Tigray Crisis to the current spread of regional ethnic violence throughout Ethiopia, this backgrounder and explainer on the crisis in Ethiopia explains what is happening and how we got here.
Violence is spreading in Ethiopia, increasing concerns that the tragedy of the Tigray Crisis could soon spread...
In our recent podcast episode Evil Men, we examined the two worst killers of the 20th century. Many listeners were surprised that Hitler was not included in the list. Instead, it was Mao and Stalin. When evil is measured simply by the total death count a single leader initiated...
This post looks at the Great Terror, sometimes called the Great Purge, that Joseph Stalin unleashed upon the Soviet Union beginning in 1936. Learn more from our podcast episode, Evil Men, in our Never Again, Again history of genocide series.
The immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution left Vladimir Lenin...
Between 1967 and 1970, an estimated 2 million Igbo Nigerians were killed by the Nigerian military after seceding to form the Republic of Biafra. After the failure of military attacks on the region known as Biafra, a military blockade induced famine and the Biafra Genocide. The Nigerian military added...
In my 2019 book How the World Ends, I laid out three central crises: food, water, and population, that would serve as the foundation for a convergence of crises and chaos over the next half-century. The repercussions of these crises would compound. We are witnessing that today. This series of...
In late May, our family exited a year of pandemic lockdown for a 5,000 mile road trip of the west. Our vaccination cards secured, we toured three of the largest national parks, including the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, and Yellowstone. Our tour took place only weeks before much of the...
The growing status of global crisis as a new normal finds multiple systems of the world pushed to the limit.
After a year and a half of the global pandemic, we learned how quickly the human mind and consciousness could adapt to a new normal. More Americans died in...
In my 2019 book How the World Ends, I laid out three central crises: food, water, and population, that would serve as the foundation for a convergence of crises and chaos over the next half-century. The repercussions of these crises would compound. We are witnessing that today. This series...
In our final episode that looks at the Holocaust in our series Never Again…Again, The Ongoing History of Genocide, JB Shreve and Brian Butler look at the stages of the Holocaust as it unfolded. Most of us have mental images that spring to mind when we consider the Holocaust,...