Author: Patrick Lang

70 US Senators Back Hamas

by W. Patrick Lang (bio below) WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (Reuters) – Seventy U.S. senators on Wednesday called on President George W. Bush to make it clear to Palestinian leaders that Hamas and other groups that the United States...

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Democracy Is a Sometimes Thing

by Patrick Lang (bio below) I have been careful not to say that anyone ever lied about any of this Iraq business in the Bush Administration or nearby in the “Bushes” (as the Rev would say). I have done so because I...

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“Something Wicked This Way Comes?”

by Patrick Lang “Hamas extended big local election gains from the fractured ruling Fatah party Friday, buoying the group ahead of a Palestinian parliamentary election next month. Israel said that if Hamas achieved...

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Sherman on Journalists

The expulsion by U.S. military officials of two embedded journalists in Kuwait, reportedly for photographing a shot-up military vehicle, has prompted outrage from Military Reporters and Editors (MRE), which is calling for a...

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