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by James Buchanan

There’s only one reason for having tens of thousands of laws on the books. The government wants to be able to use these laws to punish political opponents.

When the Indonesian dictator Suharto wanted to put an opponent in jail, he simply had his version of the IRS determine if the targeted individual had failed to obey every single tax law on their books. Odds were that the political dissident had missed one of the thousands of laws and regulations, and another political opponent was sent to jail without the stigma of admitting that there were politicial prisoners.

Both Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton had political opponents audited by the IRS as a form of intimidation. Clinton systematically targeted right wing political organizations for audits while NOT ONE leftist political organization was audited while he was president. (more…)

by Ian Mosley

The war in Iraq drags on and on and on. This could be George Orwell’s “war without end” predicted in his book “1984.” A few days ago both houses of Congress conducted an absolutely farcical “debate” on the disastrous Iraq war. The construction of four huge permanent bases and the mammoth US Embassy in Baghdad continues. The body bags and the flag-draped coffins keep coming back, although we are still not allowed to photograph them, and it is clear that the neocons mean for America to stay in Iraq forever. They do not care how many die.

A recent news article reports “The number of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq war has reached 2,500, the Pentagon said Thursday, more than three years into a conflict that finds U.S. and allied foreign forces locked in a struggle with a resilient insurgency. In addition, the Pentagon said 18,490 U.S. troops have been wounded in the war.” (more…)