Erasing History
The establishment of the permitted narrative is the telling of history itself and it tells a lot about our own modern society. The efforts to hide parts of our history are not simply to protect us but to tell a new story and define a new future. It is a strategy that has been used before and it has always led to disastrous results.
Iran’s Child Soldiers
Children were used to clear mine fields or in the "human wave" strategy of attack where hordes of bodies were more or less just thrown at superior Iraqi artillery in an effort to overcome them.
Alan Greenspan Dies – One of the Architects of Modern Economic Paradigms
Few public officials have shaped modern American thinking about money, markets, and prosperity more than Alan Greenspan. For nearly two decades, Greenspan stood at...
The Rise in Scale and Frequency of Natural Disasters
Older readers will remember a time when natural disasters were significant events. Today, they seem all too common. Does it feel like it is...
7 Numbers That Tell the Story of Deaths of Despair in America
Deaths of despair are deaths that result from drugs, alcohol, and suicide. It is a number that has grown at alarming rates in the last 20 years.
Sins of the Parents: The Crumbley Trials
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...
Kashmir Conflict Backgrounder
This post is part of my wider History of India series. Today we look at the history of the Kashmir conflict and also answer...
The Popular, Successful, Terrible, Horrible True Story of the Scientific Theory of Eugenics
The eugenics movement was a belief that fostered racism, discrimination, abortion, and genocide. It was embraced by academics, politicians, and celebrities.
A Look of Destiny
As a person who places his faith in front of his politics, I do not see how one can fail to see the hand...
The Golden Age of Conspiracy Theories
Each year, Gallup tracks American trust in its institutions. That trust has declined significantly over the last two decades, but in 2022, it took...
Crisis in the Red Zone
I finished the book, Crisis in the Red Zone, this week and was very surprised not only by how informative it was but how...
The Fractured States of America
This is our America. This is why we are growing more stressed out and frustrated every day. It is why we are avoiding each other more and isolating to our corners of the fractured pieces of American identity and ideology. It is why the echo chambers of political perspective are gaining ground and influence but independent thought and the peacemakers are losing ground.
Executions in Iran – A Story By The Numbers
The brutality of the Islamic Republic of Iran is seldom questioned but in case it ever is, here are some numbers that demonstrate the...
What Caused the Syrian Civil War?
The questions of what caused the Syrian Civil War and ongoing chaos we are experiencing today do not seem to be a challenge to...
History of the Christian Right – Part 2: The Christian Nation, America in the...
There is a reason why American conservatives and Christian conservatives look back to the 1950s as the golden age of America. The 1950s were...
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Timeline
THIS PAGE TRACKED THE GROWTH AND SPREAD OF THE CORONAVIRUS FROM JANUARY TO MAY 2020. THIS PAGE IS BEING ARCHIVED AT THIS TIME. DAILY UPDATES...
Massive Dust Storm Hits Beijing – But That’s Only Half the Story
A massive dust cloud covered Beijing, China, earlier this week. Multiple commentators noted the “apocalyptic” feel that the images provoked.
This event was not an...
Three Steps to World War III (Intelligence Brief)
This intelligence brief from JB Shreve & the End of History lays out a hypothetical scenario of realistic events that could occur in the...
Water Bets – Investing In Water Scarcity
In my book How the World Ends – Understanding the Growing Chaos, I traced the source of growing unrest and crisis across the world...
Middle East Water Crisis
When most people think of the Middle East, they imagine sand dunes and rolling deserts. While that is true of a nation like Saudi...
Divided We Stand
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
Abraham Lincoln
Yesterday’s podcast episode (11/9/16) looked at the issue of social divisions in America that have been...
Is This Offensive to You?
Friday afternoon, I tuned in with millions worldwide to watch the opening ceremonies of the 2024 Paris Olympics. I thoroughly enjoyed the organizer’s decision...
History of the Christian Right – Part 1: Before We Were Republicans
The origin of Christian involvement in American politics has a longer history than most people realize but it probably does not begin where you...
Brainwashing in the 21st Century – Walt Disney Company
A look at how modern media owns the rights to influence and manipulate our perceptions from the cradle to the grave.
The Louisiana Ten Commandments Law Is Not A Victory for the Faith
While I am sure it would be nice if more Americans shared my faith and Biblical-based values, the move in Louisiana to require posting...
The American Caste System – Part 1
The recent debates on extreme poverty in America miss the larger realities of the changes and threats within the American economy and caste system.
Genocide Language
A few years ago, my friend Brian Butler and I released a podcast series on the history of genocide called “Never Again, Again.” One...
Natural Disasters and Unnatural Losses
The whole world has watched the tragedy in the Philippines unfold this past week and held our breath together as the death counts rise...
The Age of Polycrisis
Welcome to the age of polycrisis. This is the age when what we once imagined as topics of dystopian fantasy has become the present...
America’s Inevitable Water Crisis – Happening Now
Increasingly the world is waking up to the global water crisis. That US has not escaped that wake-up call. A growing American water crisis...
A Cloud of Devastation Moves Across East Africa
The crises are accumulating in East Africa, with no end in sight. The famine in East Africa is the latest and deadliest pinnacle of...
Discernment In Times of Deception
There is a difference between knowledge and Truth. This is an essential and biblical paradigm for Christians to recognize and embrace. The tree of...
The Things That Matter Most
On election night 2020, I participated in a podcast panel made up of guests from different political backgrounds and leanings. The questions posed included...
History of the Christian Right – Part 3: Christian America Undone the Turbulent 60s...
The idea of a Christian America began falling apart in the 1960s. For the religious right the 1960s and 70 answer the question, when did America...
What It’s Like to Be Poor – The American Caste System Part 3
Part 3 in my series on the American Caste System looks at what it's like to be poor in America. This begins to explain why we have class conflict.
Some Truth About Welfare
We all know what welfare is and as a heated and polarized election season has kicked off we will no doubt hear much about...
History of the Christian Right – Part 6: End of the Christian Right
This final episode in our series looks at how the religious and Christian right lost its influence in America. Picking up with the culture...
A Growing Global 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...
How We Saved the World – Food Crisis Part 3
Human civilization’s relationship to food supply has always been a relatively tense one. A delicate balance between food supply and growing population demand marks...
The Worst Global Food Crisis Since World War II – We Are Entering Phase...
In my 2019 book How the World Ends: Understanding the Growing Chaos, I outlined three core crises found at the root of almost every...
Squashing the Middle Class – The American Caste System Part 2
Increasingly the middle class can be defined less by what a household earns and more by what it no longer has access to. (The American Caste System: Part 2)
History of the Christian Right – Part 4: A Born Again President and the...
After the tumult of the 60s and Watergate, Americans were burnt out by the mid 1970s. Jimmy Carter entered the scene as America’s first...
Truth Shines Brighter Than Fiction
As the 2024 Paris Olympics drew to a close last week, we were served with a real-time case study of what the world looks...
History of the Christian Right – Part 5: The Culture War of the 1990s
The 1980s saw great prominence for the rise of the religious right. The beliefs and politics of this group transitioned from a subculture to...
The Middle Class, Statistics and the Public Debate
The experts want us to believe that confusing middle class statistics are for them alone to understand. It's not as difficult as they make it to be.
Benevolent Aid Becomes Pragmatic Economics – Food Crisis Part 5
By 1956, food aid accounted for half of all US economic aid throughout the world. From the 1950s onward, food became a central piece...
Pandemic Famines
Last week I mentioned in one of the daily updates at the End of History how a high ranking official at the United Nations...
This Is What Happens In An Economic Crisis – Lessons from History and What...
US inflation is rising. In March, US inflation rose to 8.5%, compared to 2.6% one year earlier. We can expect that number to keep...
The Green Revolution – Food Crisis Part 7
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...
Is America Heading Toward Civil War?
As Donald Trump sailed toward the Republican nomination this winter and spring, at his political rallies, speakers and supporters paused to honor the imprisoned...
