Holodomor – Ukraine’s Genocide by Starvation
The word Holodomor translates to death by hunger or killing by starvation. It is the name given to the genocide carried out by Stalin...
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...
Worse Than COVID
For a year and a half, the world has been struggling against the coronavirus. Lockdowns. Vaccines. Facemasks. These words and issues are now pieces...
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...
Mass Killings Under Mao – One of History’s Most Evil Men
In our recent podcast episode Evil Men, we examined the two worst killers of the 20th century. Many listeners were surprised that Hitler was...
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...
Crisis Response Systems
The past 18 months of global crisis have taught us many things, but chief among these is a startling revelation regarding the weakness of...
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....
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,...