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 civil war in Sudan has now surpassed 100 days in duration. If you missed this milestone, it is no surprise. The violence occurring...
Months-long protests and heated divisions will come to a head in an Israeli Knesset vote that has triggered a domestic threat emergency in Israel.
The...
After the unique economic factors (see yesterday's post), the second solution to the crisis of these debtor nations in the early 1980s is known...
In our last post in this series, we looked at how benevolent aid became dysfunctional politics and began reshaping the global food system in...
By 1956, food aid accounted for half of all US economic aid throughout the world. From the 1950s onward, food became a central piece...
The end of World War II resulted in the near total destruction of Europe’s powerful nations and the global complex of colonialism they erected...
Human civilization’s relationship to food supply has always been a relatively tense one. A delicate balance between food supply and growing population demand marks...
While famine rages in one part of the world, in other parts obesity is climbing to record rates. The Centers for Disease Control and...
In early 2017, the Secretary General of the United Nations warned that 20 million people were at risk of famine, including 1.4 million children...
The outbreak of violence this week has brought the world to the brink of a Sudan civil war. Such a conflict poses a risk...