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
This intelligence brief provides an overview of the crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR). Patreon supporters can access the podcast deep dive that explores the history and current threats for this global hot spot that could quickly escalate to a global concern.
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In this intelligence brief podcast episode available exclusively to the End of History's Patreon supporters, JB Shreve takes a deep dive into the crises of the Uighurs and the Rohingya. We take a look at what is happening in each of these humanitarian crises and how we got here. ...
It did not start with peace summits and oil. It also did not begin with unconditional US support of Israel and Saudi Arabia. The history of American foreign policy in the Middle East is a story of misguided strategies, misinformed leaders, and sometimes simple badk luck. Unfortunately, men and...
Years before the coronavirus pandemic, experts repeatedly warned the United States was not ready for the next major disease outbreak and that another significant outbreak was inevitable. The US political establishment failed to respond, and we are seeing the results today. Similarly, experts have repeatedly warned for more than...
In my book How the World Ends – Understanding the Growing Chaos, I traced the source of growing unrest and crisis across the world to three root causes – food distribution, water scarcity, and population distribution. In the final chapters of the book, I explained that each of these...
When Barry Goldwater is recalled to today's popular imagination, he is remembered as an extremist, a danger, and a war hawk. In his 1964 acceptance speech at the Republican convention, he famous said, "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice." Critics heard the threat of nuclear war in...
Thirty years before Abraham Lincoln was elected President, a Congressman named Henry Clay was doing everything he could to address the American states' growing divisions. The story of Henry Clay is next in our podcast series on The Losers, the people who ran for President and lost.
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When the Great Depression hit, everyone saw their political philosophies and ideologies upended. Franklin Roosevelt himself said much of the New Deal was just trying a little bit of everything to find what would work. In that environment, many people toyed with socialism and communism in the 1930s. A lot...
This first episode in our podcast, The Losers, tells the story of William Jennings Bryan. Bryan is what you would get if you combined Pat Robertson and Alexandria Octavio-Cortez into one person? Ok, maybe that’s a little bit of stretch – but just a little.
Bryan ran for President three...
The Losers tells the story of people lost to the pages of popular American history. They once presented the country with a vision of the future. They offered a unique interpretation of what America meant to the world. This short podcast series tells the story of candidates who stood...