Food Crisis Overview – Part 1
In early 2017, the Secretary General of the United Nations warned that 20 million people were at risk of famine, including 1.4 million children...
Sudan on the Brink
The outbreak of violence this week has brought the world to the brink of a Sudan civil war. Such a conflict poses a risk...
Bank Failures, Government Interventions, and a Dysfunctional Economic System Beginning to Implode (Part 2)
This is part two of this article discussing the coming economic meltdown. You can find part 1 here.
Crazy Stupid Ideas That Lead to the...
Bank Failures, Government Interventions, and a Dysfunctional Economic System Beginning to Implode (Part 1)
This is part one of two articles discussing the next economic meltdown. You can find part 2 here.
At the end of last week, Silicon...
A Two-Headed Crisis in Israel
Israel is facing an unprecedented level of crisis both internally and externally. A rise in violence between Israeli settlers and Palestinians has become the...
The Recurring Debt Limit Crisis – Kicking the Can Down the Road
On Friday, the US Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellen, warned the US must take “extraordinary measures” to avoid defaulting on its debt as...
What Grace Does
So far in this series, we have explored our description of the grace of God as the energy of God. In this episode, we...
The Wagner Group – The Russian Bad Guys Coming Out of the Shadows
The Russian mercenary organization, the Wagner Group, is no longer hiding in the shadows. A recent Washington Post report detailed the acknowledgment and accolades...
Fighting Returns to Libya
The truce and political stalemate that suspended fighting in Libya’s civil war for nearly two years may have toppled into calamity over the weekend....
Bank Runs and Mortgage Boycotts – The Face of China’s New Economic Crisis
In the west, current events stories featuring China tend to focus on geopolitical risk in Taiwan, its Covid Zero strategy, or even the historic...
What is going on in Sri Lanka – A Sign of Things To Come
Protesters occupying the head of the government’s residence. Skyrocketing inflation. Fuel prices more than doubling. Food and medicine shortages. The president of Asia’s oldest...
None of It Worked
When the coronavirus pandemic first began to surge, I posited a thought on one of the podcast episodes in those early days. How could...
Watching A Crisis Unfold in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s security forces confronted protesters over the weekend, raising alarms of more instability in the Asian island nation. The country is facing a...
Backgrounder to The China-Taiwan Threat
China flew a record-breaking number of military flights into Taiwanese airspace to open the month of October. The unprecedented 150 flights included bombers, anti-submarine...
Evergrande, Our Upside-Down World, and the Shape of Things to Come
Readers who give even the most minimal levels of attention to financial news and headlines recognize the name Evergrande from the last week's headlines....
You Should Know About the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)
Crises are beginning to accumulate in Ethiopia. It is only a matter of time before one explodes in a significant regional and perhaps global...
Nightmare Scenario
"Between election day and January 20, 2021, Trump’s last day in office, COVID19, killed another 160,000 Americans. Trump said almost nothing about the virus...
A Crowd of 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...
Ethiopia Disintegrating – Background and Explainer
From the Tigray Crisis to the current spread of regional ethnic violence throughout Ethiopia, this backgrounder and explainer on the crisis in Ethiopia explains...
Water Protests in Iran, And the Shape of Things to Come
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...
President Biden Does Not Understand 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
The growing status of global crisis as a new normal finds multiple systems of the world pushed to the limit.
After a year and...
What Is Happening In Israel – Backgrounder
More than 1,000 Hamas rockets have been fired from Gaza toward Israel since Monday. Israel has responded by carrying out hundreds of airstrikes on...
A Historical Breach of Security
Years before the coronavirus pandemic, experts repeatedly warned the United States was not ready for the next major disease outbreak and that another significant...
Nagorno-Karabakh Backgrounder
Synopsis
The Nagorno-Karabakh region has presented a conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan for more than a century. The Nagorno-Karabakh region sits within the Azerbaijan...
Chinese Oppression of the Uighur People Continues
Those who believed China’s reeducation of the Uighur people had come to a close, as the Chinese government suggested, were mistaken. New satellite images...
Intelligence Brief – What’s Going On In Belarus
This week's Intelligence Brief was too big for our normal text version of the Intelligence Brief. Terrell Spencer joins JB Shreve for a special...
Intelligence Brief – Lebanon on the Brink
The massive explosion that rocked Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday has the world’s attention focused on the tiny country. Before the explosion, however, Lebanon was...
This Was Only January 2020 – There Is Cause for Concern
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?
Emerging Crisis in the Sahel – Mali and Burkina Faso
Yesterday at least 14 people were slaughtered by terrorists at a church in Burkina Faso. This briefer explains the emerging crisis taking shape in...
100,000 Deaths and Everything Else You Need to Know About the Yemen Civil War
In the last week of October, the civil war in Yemen reached a new measurable depth of horror and tragedy. The total death in...
Children in Afghanistan – 9 Numbers Tell the Story
A new report from the UN Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict provides a peek into the weight of the conflict being placed upon...
The Other Global Water Crisis
This is part of my ongoing series on the Global Water Crisis which we have been tracking here at JB Shreve & the End...
Water Crisis in the Sahel
This post on the water crisis in the Sahel is part of my ongoing blog series on the global water crisis.
In my last...
Water Wars and the Global Water Crisis
This post on water wars is part of an ongoing series where we are tracking the global water crisis.
In 2012 Adel Darwish, author of...
Chinese Prisons Filling with Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang
A look at the incredible report from the New York Times regarding the Chinese prisons overflowing with Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province.
What Is Going On in Sudan – Sudan Protests Fact Sheet and Backgrounder
This backgrounder on the growing crisis in Sudan explains what is currently taking place, how we got here and what the future might hold.
Drought and the Global Water Crisis
This post on the threat of drought is part of the ongoing series where we are tracking the global water crisis.
Historically Dangerous Events Unfolding in Kashmir
While the western media is largely ignoring this story, a major historical event has unfolded in Kashmir this week. The following briefer explains what is going on in this extremely unstable situation.
Water Crisis in India – The Global Water Crisis
We are heading toward a major disaster in the story of the global water crisis in India – and it all could have been avoided.
9 Numbers – The Threat Against Children in Armed Conflict Globally
These 9 numbers from the UN report to the Security Council on Children in Armed Conflicts tell the toll being taken on children around the world in 2018.
Fact Sheet and Explainer Uighur Muslims in China Prison Camps
As many as 1.5 million Uighurs are reportedly being held in Chinese prison camps. This fact sheet explains what is taking place among China's Uighurs.
Water Crisis in Iran
There is a growing water crisis in Iran. We frequently misunderstand the upheaval in this ancient land through the framework of western politics.
Water Crisis – The Dried Out Nation of Jordan
This post on the water crisis in Jordan is part of a series tracking the global water crisis. Jordan is expected to be the first nation to run out of water.
Global Water Crisis – Draining the Aquifers
This post is part of the ongoing series where we are tracking the global water crisis.
The Global Water Crisis Has Arrived
The Global Water Crisis story is an ongoing series we are featuring here at JB Shreve & the End of History. New aspects and explainers on various aspects of the crisis can be found regularly here.
An American Citizen is Leading a Revolt in Libya – What Is Happening In...
The most recent instigator of the violence in Libya is a 75-year old former resident of northern Virginia, Khalifa Hifter.
What Is Happening In Nicaragua
In April 2018 a protest movement began demanding the removal of President Ortega from office. This backgrounder explains what is happening in Nicaragua.
What Is Terrorism?
Currently, there is no universally accepted definition of terrorism. The many definitions which exist contradict one another and even worse are flexible to shifting policies and priorities. The lack of definition given to this sinister enemy has not prevented countless wars and violent state-sponsored attacks throughout the world in the name of the war on terror.
Understanding the Conflict in South Sudan – Timeline and Fact Sheet
The following is a brief overview for understanding the conflict in South Sudan. Scroll down for a look at the South Sudan conflict timeline...
