JB Shreve

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...

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...

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...

The 2024 US Presidential election season will kick off tomorrow with the first caucuses in Iowa. This week's current events brief looks at how we can expect 2024 to be unlike any other election, full of confusion at first, then comes the chaos. These video briefs are available exclusively...

In our first episode in this podcast series that explores the six pivotal years that made the modern Middle East, we look at 1919. This is the year of the Paris Peace Conference after World War I. The modern world was born at those meetings and the modern Middle...

Today marks three months since the Hamas invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023. This video brief looks at the current state of the conflict and where it is heading. Read More:  - US Steps Up Diplomatic Effort to Avert Wider Middle East War (Wall Street Journal) - Middle East Is Sliding...