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 more from our podcast episode, Evil Men, in our Never...
Biafra Genocide – A Forgotten History
Between 1967 and 1970, an estimated 2 million Igbo Nigerians were killed by the Nigerian military after seceding to form the Republic of Biafra. After the failure of military attacks on the region known...
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 a convergence of crises and chaos over the next half-century....
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, we toured three of the largest national parks, including the...
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 a half of the global pandemic, we learned how quickly...
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 for a convergence of crises and chaos over the next...
Stages of the Holocaust – The Ongoing History of Genocide – Episode 5
In our final episode that looks at the Holocaust in our series Never Again…Again, The Ongoing History of Genocide, JB Shreve and Brian Butler look at the stages of the Holocaust as it unfolded....
The Crisis in Haiti
Last Wednesday the president of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse was killed when a group of assassins forced their way into his home. Moïse was shot 12 times. His wife was also shot but she survived....
History of Haiti
This article explores the history of Haiti that brought us to the present status.
The assassination of Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse this week is only the latest drama to erupt from a nation built through...
Ordinary Men and the Others – The Ongoing History of Genocide – Episode 4
It is easy to imagine the perpetrators of the holocaust as vile, wicked, evil people. The truth is more disturbing. The holocaust occurred because a society and culture allowed it to occur. Evil men...