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...
Origins of the Holocaust – The Ongoing History of Genocide – Episode 3
It is all too easy, 80 years removed, to look at the holocaust and imagine we would never cooperate or tolerate such evil in our generation. Understanding the origins of the holocaust, the bogus...
The Armenian Genocide – The Ongoing History of Genocide – Episode 2
Raphael Lemkin, the man who invented the word genocide, described the Armenian genocide as one of the textbook examples of genocide that caused him to investigate this crime and phenomenon in human history more thoroughly....
The Herero Genocide – The Ongoing History of Genocide – Episode 1
In this first episode in our new podcast series on the history of genocide, Never Again…Again - The Ongoing History of Genocide JB Shreve and Brian Butler look at the definitions of genocide and the...
Never Again…Again – The Ongoing History of Genocide
Ethnic cleansing. Genocide. Crimes against humanity. These wicked forms of mass murder have existed for as long as human civilization has existed. In the last century, mankind began to label this evil with terms...