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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
As Donald Trump sailed toward the Republican nomination this winter and spring, at his political rallies, speakers and supporters paused to honor the imprisoned “hostages.” These hostages are the men and women arrested for storming the capitol in January 2021. The former President has barely touched the campaign trail,...
This docmenary debuted on the Hulu streaming network in the last week. In November 2021, 15-year-old James Crumbley entered Oxford High School in Michigan carrying a 9 mm handgun and murdered four of his classmates, injuring another seven people. On the heels of the pandemic lockdowns, it was simply another...
why do christians support Israel
Why do Christians in the Western world often give unconditional support to the nation of Israel? Can a Christian believe in a loving and merciful God and still embrace a vision of God that supports oppression and injustice? In this one-of-a-kind video series, JB Shreve and the End of History...
In our Six Years That Made the Modern Middle East podcast series, we come to 2003, the year of the US invasion of Iraq. This would be a game changer for the region, sending it over the edge and into the abyss of chaos. This episode looks at the...
  In our next episode of the Six Years that Made the Middle East, we look at 1979. In the aftermath of the Six Days War, the 1970s saw the rise of a new element to the chaos we know today – extremist Islam. Far from common before 1979, most...
  This week's intelligence brief looks at the growing threat of political, ethnic, and religious violence in India for 2024. (These intelligence briefs are available exclusively to our Patreon supporters.) Links: Narendra Modi, A Man with a Massacre On His Hands Attacks on Indian Muslims Grow After Temple Ceremony India’s Political...
growing border crisis
This week's intelligence brief looks a the growing immigration crisis and a wider perspective of this issue that goes beyond the divisive narratives in the US. Links Texas Seized Part of the Southern Border and Blocked Federal Access Republican Candidates Promote Replacement Theory Biden Border Crisis Is Worst in American...
  Episode 3 in our series Six Years That Made the Middle East, looks at 1967. This is the year of the famous Six Days War. In this episode we look at the instability that spread across the Middle East between 1948 and 1967, the rise of Nasser, and the slow...
isaac and Ishmael
For the last 80 years, a popular teaching has emerged that states the conflict between Israel and the Arabs is Biblical in origin. According to this teaching, the story of Isaac and Ishmael is the seed of a perpetual conflict that has always and will always exist between Israel...
Episode 2 in our series Six Years That Made the Middle East, looks at 1948. This was the year that Israel became a state, but there is a wider story to be told when it comes to the Middle East. The rise, fall, and persistence of colonialism, or at least the...