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...firm that was hired by U.S.-based contractor RTI International. Talk about outsourcing: a significant percentage of U.S. security guards in Iraq are neither Americans nor Iraqis. Here's a look at how many of these guns for hire can be labeled as mercenaries for fighting under a foreign flag. [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine...
...side, Maung held the Burmese flag while another demonstrator held up a picture of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has not left the country since 1988. In 1990, when she was under house arrest, the junta refused to recognize her party’s victory in the parliamentary elections...
Maung welcomed supporters in front of the John Harvard statue, which had been adorned with a Burmese flag and a picture of Buddha. Two Buddhist nuns began the rally with a prayer and then led students out into Harvard Square...
...latte-drinking,” and “tax-raising” the common epithet “pot-smoking.” A well-stuffed joint is, apparently, a familiar staple in the progressive’s quiver alongside a Che shirt and a burning American flag. Unfortunately, marijuana as political issue goes better to the tune of “Puttin’ on the Ritz” than “The Internationale,” for drug consumption, even if it frees minds, shackles the lower class into economic bondsmanship...
...Even more importantly, Merkel’s project addresses the need for a cohesive foreign policy. Although the name “Union Minister for Foreign Affairs” had to be dropped along with the flag and anthem, the post of “High Representative of the Union for Foreign and Security Affairs” would effectively carry all of its weight. The new position will effectively do much more than save Brussels a redundant salary, since today two bureaucrats share foreign policy responsibilities...