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Truthdigger of the Week: Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis

2012-02-17T17:09:01+00:00

It may seem quaint that a high-ranking Army officer with a career spanning some 27 years would look to Jimmy Stewart’s everyman hero in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” for inspiration in his own life, but it’s a darned good thing that Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis holds such old-fashioned ideals as truth-telling in high regard.

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Truthdigger of the Week: 9th Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt

2012-02-10T15:28:40+00:00

Just in time for a certain prefabricated, romance-related holiday that shall remain nameless, we offer you a little valentine (oops!) of our own with a Truthdigger winner who truly brought the love in one inspiring gesture he made in a federal appeals court, of all places.

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Truthdiggers of the Week: Planned Parenthood Supporters

2012-02-03T18:12:00+00:00

With all the worries about corporate colonization of the Internet and the specter of online censorship getting spookier all the time, it’s important to acknowledge the ways in which the Web can still be used for the greater good.

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Truthdigger of the Week: Stephen Colbert

2012-01-27T19:16:58+00:00

Yes, he’s a funny guy, and granted, he’s a celebrity and thus already commands an absurd amount of attention and bandwidth, but we’re quite serious about our pick of Stephen Colbert as this week’s Truthdigger.

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Truthdigger of the Week: Chris Hedges

2012-01-20T19:13:29+00:00

Late last year, President Obama pulled a fast one by changing his stance on the National Defense Authorization Act so suddenly and drastically that Americans were left with a bad case of legislative whiplash—and a very serious state of affairs with regard to our civil liberties.

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Truthdiggers of the Week: Indiana University Poverty Researchers

2012-01-13T17:45:42+00:00

Here’s a sobering dose of reality: Poverty in America has risen to the 27 percent mark in the last half-decade and, perhaps worse, the prospects for our nation’s poorest won’t necessarily get better as the economy picks up. It’s not news many want to hear, but we’re glad a group of researchers at Indiana University were gutsy enough to release it.

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Truthdigger of the Week: Daniel Ellsberg

2012-01-06T19:31:29+00:00

For our first Truthdigger installment of 2012, we salute Daniel Ellsberg, who has taken a page from his experience with the Pentagon Papers and is still busy serving up a bracing dose of truth to power, most recently with his support of accused WikiLeaker Bradley Manning.

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Truthdigger of the Week: Rep. Dennis Kucinich

2011-12-30T18:03:47+00:00

As the year draws to a close, the U.S. government risks repeating the costly mistakes of the recent past by ratcheting up tensions with Iran, emphasizing risky sanctions over diplomatic negotiations and making fact-challenged claims about Iran’s nuclear program. Good thing Rep. Dennis Kucinich is on Capitol Hill to call Congress on its deadly war addiction.

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Truthdiggers of the Week: Marissa Gaeta and Citlalic Snell

2011-12-23T16:48:39+00:00

After a year that brought so much bad news, we’re pleased to warm things up for this holiday Truthdigger installment by celebrating two women who put a fine point on the end of the U.S. military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy and made headlines—not to mention an iconic photo—with a simple and moving show of love.

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Truthdiggers of the Week: NDAA Dissenters in Congress

2011-12-16T18:12:03+00:00

Though they couldn’t stop the freedom-crushing National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 from becoming law, Truthdig salutes the efforts of the members of the U.S. Congress who took a stand against the NDAA in the final round of voting this week.

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