Rod Helle

The United States’ next oil war will likely take place in Iran, so now might be a good time to look back at the history of our involvement in that country. What the United States did in Iran in 1953 set in motion a chain of events that led to the 1979 hostage crisis and […]

A recent study by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has shown that since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, an estimated 100,000 more civilians have died in that country than would have died if the invasion had not taken place. Most of these deaths have been the result of violence, most […]