JB Shreve & the End of History

The history of Ethiopia is also the story of ethnic conflict, with Eritrea and others. The wide diversity of ethnic groups within the nation has posed a constant source of friction for the last century. Learn more about the End of History at our website https://theendofhistory.net.

As this podcast was being recorded, Ethiopia is entering its second year of brutal civil war that launched on November 3, 2022, when Ethiopian forces invaded Tigray province. This terrible war is the latest occasion of ethnic violence in the history of Ethiopia. This two-part podcast special episode in our History of Africa podcast series tells the story of Ethiopia's history as well as the histor...

One year after the assassination of Haiti’s president, the country’s political and economic systems are in a state of free fall. The most recent evidence of this is a surge of gang violence in some of the major cities where two rival gangs are making life more and more dangerous for the public at large. The UN reported that 99 people were killed in gang violence last week. This weekend the Washing...

Yesterday Abdul Qadeer Khan (AQ Khan) died in Pakistan after being hospitalized for COVID19. Khan is the man responsible for facilitating turning Pakistan into a nuclear power and just as significant, providing countries like North Korea, Libya and Iran with the science and technology they needed for their own nuclear programs. Most believe North Korea would never have become a nuclear power witho...

Throughout this series, we have asked why and how people could commit such evil as genocide, how societies could allow genocide, and why no one stops genocide. It keeps happening again and again despite each generation’s promise for Never Again. In this final episode, we encourage listeners to pay attention to current situations that will likely be called genocides in the near future (some already...

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. Conversely, Hitler noted how no one remembered the Armenians and justified his assault on the Jews by the success of the Turks against the Armenians. Except for the Holocaust, t...