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
How many of these global events that took place in the last 31 days, January 2020, do you remember? The world is changing. Are you paying attention?
In today's podcast episode we are joined by Dr Idayat Hassan Director for the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) in Abuja, Nigeria. Dr Hassan explains the growing violence in West Africa including Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger.
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THIS PAGE TRACKED THE GROWTH AND SPREAD OF THE CORONAVIRUS FROM JANUARY TO MAY 2020. THIS PAGE IS BEING ARCHIVED AT THIS TIME. DAILY UPDATES CAN STILL BE FOUND HERE.
WE ARE KEEP THIS PAGE UP FOR AN ARCHIVE/HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE.
This Coronavirus (COVID-19) timeline will track the spread of the virus and...
Since 2011 Libya has been torn apart by civil war. Today the Libyan Civil War is approaching a dangerous threshold of breaking out into a wider regional war with Turkey, Russia and various European powers taking different sides in the struggle. The breakdown of the Libyan state has already...
On December 12, 2019, in the city of Wuhan, China (population 11 million) a new disease was identified. Authorities have described it as a "virus never seen before in humans" and it is the mystery illness in China that suddenly has the world on alert.
JB Shreve is joined by...
Who was Qassem Soleimani? What are the implications of his death at the hands of a US airstrike this past Thursday? In today's podcast discussion JB Shreve is joined by Jonathan Webster and Jerusha Gittlen. You have heard the pundits and the polarization. This discussion aims to find a...
Our final podcast episode of 2019 looks at the decade in review. For better or for worse, the second decade of the 21st century was packed with history-making events and actors.
In America this decade held the Tea Party and the Occupy Movement, President Obama and President Trump, the end...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Christian theologian, pastor, writer, and ultimately martyr. As Hitler and the Nazis rose to power in Germany in the 1930s and 40s Bonhoeffer was among a minority of voices who took a conscientious stand against the Nazi ideology and specifically Adolf Hitler. He warned that...
Yesterday at least 14 people were slaughtered by terrorists at a church in Burkina Faso. This briefer explains the emerging crisis taking shape in Burkina Faso, Mali and the wider Sahel region of Africa.
In my newest book How the World Ends – Understanding the Growing Chaos I explained that...
In the last week of October, the civil war in Yemen reached a new measurable depth of horror and tragedy. The total death in Yemen’s civil war has now reached 100,000. That death toll includes more than 12,000 civilians. Twenty thousand of those deaths occurred this year. Last year,...