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JB Shreve

JB Shreve
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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
staline ukraine famine Holodomor
The word Holodomor translates to death by hunger or killing by starvation. It is the name given to the genocide carried out by Stalin...
Emergencies in Myanmar
The emergencies in Myanmar are piling up and pushing the country toward devastating ends. The 2021 coup took shape as the pandemic was surging...
tigray crisis
From the Tigray Crisis to the current spread of regional ethnic violence throughout Ethiopia, this backgrounder and explainer on the crisis in Ethiopia explains...
Mass Killings Under Mao
In our recent podcast episode Evil Men, we examined the two worst killers of the 20th century. Many listeners were surprised that Hitler was...
the great terror joseph stalin

The Great Terror

This post looks at the Great Terror, sometimes called the Great Purge, that Joseph Stalin unleashed upon the Soviet Union beginning in 1936. Learn...
biafra genocide
Between 1967 and 1970, an estimated 2 million Igbo Nigerians were killed by the Nigerian military after seceding to form the Republic of Biafra....
water protests, water crisis
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...
inflation
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,...
pushed to the limit global crisis

Pushed to the Limit

The growing status of global crisis as a new normal finds multiple systems of the world pushed to the limit. After a year and...
food crisis
In my 2019 book How the World Ends, I laid out three central crises: food, water, and population, that would serve as the foundation...