dissidents
U.S. Attorneys Rally in Support of Pakistani Brethren
November 14, 2007
November 14, 2007
The steps of the New York County Courthouse in downtown Manhattan were a sea of black and white Tuesday as hundreds of New York City attorneys gathered in support of their counterparts in Pakistan, thousands of whom have been...
Bollinger: No Badass, but not Bad as, He Might Have Been
September 24, 2007
It’s never wise to debate a nut job, especially a vicious one. The very act of debate implies there is something to be discussed, some shred of basis to the attacker’s position which, if in fact there is none, gives that unreasonable and...
Freedom Fighter
May 16, 2005
They killed Mithal Al-Alusi’s sons, but he won’t stop. He believes truth and freedom are too precious. Al-Alusi is the founder of the nine-month-old Democratic Party of the Iraqi Nation (DPIN), a grassroots political party that...
Iraqi Politician’s Support for Israel Costs Him Dearly, But He Presses On
May 9, 2005
May 9, 2005
For daring to visit Israel, Mithal Al-Alusi has paid with more than his life: It cost him his two sons.
A Sunni Moslem who founded the Democratic Party of the Iraqi Nation, or DPIN, Al-Alusi believes the new Iraq should defy...