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
Most of us have grown up in the shadow of fear regarding climate change and global warming. These themes became so prevalent over the last 30 years that it became difficult to know which threats and warnings to take seriously and which were mere hyperbole. But in 2023, something...
Our biggest story in the Global Review for July 2023 is climate change. Across the planets, heat records are falling, and new extreme weather patterns are being reported. The head of the United Nations this month said, "Climate change is out of control." He later added, "The era of...
The civil war in Sudan has now surpassed 100 days in duration. If you missed this milestone, it is no surprise. The violence occurring in Ukraine is abominable, but the disproportionate attention given to that war in Eastern Europe compared to the atrocities in Sudan suggests the Western world...
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 nation has already seen the largest protests in its history. Today, 150 major firms, including banks, are striking ahead of the vote. On Sunday, tens...
Our monthly global review podcast looks at the state of the chaos around the world during the preceding month. Our May Global Review podcast begins with a look at the growing financial crisis. While the debt ceiling debates are featured in most media outlets that is only the most...
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 to history as the Green Revolution.
The Green Revolution actually began earlier in the 1960s, but its transfer to the underdeveloped world was often hand in...
In our last post in this series, we looked at how benevolent aid became dysfunctional politics and began reshaping the global food system in the 1960s and 70s. Two significant factors contributed solutions to the crisis as well the perpetuation of the dysfunctional global food system. The first was...
Our monthly global review podcast looks at the state of the chaos around the world during the preceding month. Our April Global Review podcast looks at the growing geopolitical conflicts in the shadow of a world system that broke new records for military spending in the last year. We...
By 1956, food aid accounted for half of all US economic aid throughout the world. From the 1950s onward, food became a central piece of American aid throughout the world and a foundational element in the evolving US-dominated global economy. By 1960, one-third of the world’s trade in wheat...
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 over the course of the prior century. It was only a few years into the postwar period when Great Britain withdrew from almost all of...