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By Eugene Robinson
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by Cristina Marcano and Alberto Barrera Tyszka
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Who made your week by speaking truth to power, blowing the whistle or standing up to injustice? Let us know here.
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Flickr / Felipe Bachomo (CC-BY)
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Who made your week by speaking truth to power, blowing the whistle or standing up to injustice? Let us know here.
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Flickr / Felipe Bachomo (CC-BY)
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Who made your week by speaking truth to power, blowing the whistle or standing up to injustice? Let us know here.
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Flickr / Felipe Bachomo (CC-BY)
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Who made your week by speaking truth to power, blowing the whistle or standing up to injustice? Let us know here.
Posted on Jan 9, 2012
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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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Flickr / Felipe Bachomo (CC-BY)
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Who made your week by speaking truth to power, blowing the whistle or standing up to injustice? Let us know here.
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Flickr / Felipe Bachomo (CC-BY)
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Who made your week by speaking truth to power, blowing the whistle or standing up to injustice? Let us know here.
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Every social movement needs to guard against the inevitable attempts of mainstream media sources to warp its message, defend its targets and recast its members as lazy, crazy or fringy malcontents. Luckily for the Occupy movement, British journalist Laurie Penny is more than capable of taking on, and taking down ... (more)
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Flickr / Felipe Bachomo (CC-BY)
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Who made your week by speaking truth to power, blowing the whistle or standing up to injustice? Let us know here.
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Flickr / Felipe Bachomo (CC-BY)
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Who made your week by speaking truth to power, blowing the whistle or standing up to injustice? Let us know here.
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Flickr / Felipe Bachomo (CC-BY)
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Who made your week by speaking truth to power, blowing the whistle or standing up to injustice? Let us know here.
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Occupy Wall Street protester Jesse LaGreca, our Truthdigger of the Week, responded to the provocative questions of a Fox News reporter with such clarity and fortitude in support of the movement that his message gained viral attention.
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Flickr / Felipe Bachomo (CC-BY)
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Who made your week by speaking truth to power, blowing the whistle or standing up to injustice? Let us know here.
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Flickr / marniejoyce (CC-BY)
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Thousands of protesters have crowded Wall Street for the last 12 days, decrying the effects of corporate greed on a functioning democracy. Those protesters, Occupy Wall Street, are our Truthdiggers of the Week.
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Flickr / Felipe Bachomo (CC-BY)
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Who made your week by speaking truth to power, blowing the whistle or standing up to injustice? Let us know here.
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Flickr / Felipe Bachomo (CC-BY)
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Who made your week by speaking truth to power, blowing the whistle or standing up to injustice? Let us know here.
Posted on Sep 20, 2011
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Flickr / Felipe Bachomo (CC-BY)
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Who made your week by speaking truth to power, blowing the whistle or standing up to injustice? Let us know here.
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Retired Republican congressional staffer Mike Lofgren outed the “political terrorism” of the lunatics and crackpots who make up the GOP today, and that’s why he’s our Truthdigger of the Week.
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Flickr / Felipe Bachomo (CC-BY)
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Who made your week by speaking truth to power, blowing the whistle or standing up to injustice? Let us know here.
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Flickr / Felipe Bachomo (CC-BY)
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Who made your week by speaking truth to power, blowing the whistle or standing up to injustice? Let us know here.
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Flickr / Felipe Bachomo (CC-BY)
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Who made your week by speaking truth to power, blowing the whistle or standing up to injustice? Let us know here.
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Flickr / Felipe Bachomo (CC-BY)
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Who made your week by speaking truth to power, blowing the whistle or standing up to injustice? Let us know here.
Posted on Aug 16, 2011
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Flickr / Felipe Bachomo (CC-BY)
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Who made your week by speaking truth to power, blowing the whistle or standing up to injustice? Let us know here.
Posted on Aug 9, 2011
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This week’s Truthdigger of the Week award goes to the cantabile group that interrupted President Obama in song over the detention of alleged WikiLeaks’ source Pfc. Bradley Manning.
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democracynow.org
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This week we tip our hat to Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, who once helped calculate the true cost of the Iraq War, and more recently has been calling attention to the radical redistribution of wealth from middle- and working-class Americans to the richest among us.
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Flickr / Felipe Bachomo (CC-BY)
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Who made your week by speaking truth to power, blowing the whistle or standing up to injustice? Let us know here.
Posted on Apr 6, 2011
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Flickr / Felipe Bachomo (CC-BY)
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Who made your week by speaking truth to power, blowing the whistle or standing up to injustice? Let us know here.
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Flickr / Felipe Bachomo (CC-BY)
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Who made your week by speaking truth to power, blowing the whistle or standing up to injustice? Let us know here.
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democracynow.org
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This week, we salute fellow journalist Glenn Greenwald for lending his voice to the cause of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the alleged WikiLeaks source whose life may well be on the line if the U.S. Army’s newest and most severe charges play out against him in court.
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If you can’t say it any better than Ted Kennedy, why try? We certainly won’t. Here, the former Truthdigger of the Week speaks for us all as he lays out the case against Mukasey.
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For decades Burma’s ruling military junta has governed through terror, determined to meet dissent with intimidation, detention and murder. It is because of the military’s particular cruelty that the story of the Buddhist monks of Burma is so compelling.
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Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer and contributors James Harris and Josh Scheer celebrate the dignity and tenacity of Truthdigger of the Week Valerie Plame Wilson.
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In honor of Sen. Ted Kennedy’s passing, we’re re-posting one of his classic moral stands. This 2007 speech against the escalation of the Iraq war was so good we had to give him the Truthdigger of the Week award back then.
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Left: josephstiglitz.com / Right: harvard.edu
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This week Truthdig salutes Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes for uncovering the true cost of the war in Iraq. Last year Nobel Prize-winning economist Stiglitz and Harvard budget expert Bilmes estimated the total price tag for Bush’s misadventure in Mesopotamia at $2.267 trillion—a tad higher than the $350 billion to $500 billion so often discussed.
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This week Truthdig salutes the Rev. Joel Hunter, who recently resigned as president of the Christian Coalition because the group was unwilling to accept his agenda on global warming, poverty and AIDS. While we don’t endorse Hunter’s stand on choice and gay marriage, we admire the consistency of his pro-life position. As the pastor himself says, “unless we are caring as much for the vulnerable outside the womb as inside the womb, we’re not carrying out the full message of Jesus.”
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From CBS News
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Truthdig salutes Michael J. Fox, who reacted with grace when right-wing hate-machine Rush Limbaugh accused the actor of faking the symptoms of his Parkinson’s disease in order to curry political favor for stem cell research.
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Truthdig tips its hat this week to Bob Woodward, whose book “State of Denial” plowed over much-trod territory and still managed to surface plenty of fresh headlines. (Video and more after the jump…)
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From Crooks and Liars
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Truthdig salutes Rep. Peter Hoekstra, the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, who rapped Bush in a letter for not briefing Congress on various intelligence-gathering programs. Check out a video of Hoekstra publicly defending the letter on Fox News: “It is not optional for this president ... or people in the executive community not to keep the intelligence committees fully informed of what they are doing.”
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AP / J. Scott Applewhite
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Truthdig salutes the 86-year-old Supreme Court justice who wrote the majority opinion in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which struck down the military tribunals Bush set up to try Guantanamo detainees. But more important, this decision, in the words of a Yale law professor, “effectively undermines the Administration’s strongest claims about Presidential power,” and may constitute the legal framework necessary to halt the more egregious of Bush’s civil liberties-infringing programs—like warrantless wiretapping and holding terrorism suspects without trial.
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Book: Amazon.com / Suskind: virginia.edu
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Truthdig salutes Ron Suskind, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer whose most recent book, “The One Percent Doctrine,” stripped down Vice President Dick Cheney’s counter-terrorism philosophy to its Strangelovian essence: If there is a 1% chance of a terrorist attack, America must respond as though it is a 100% certainty.
Click here for disclosures from the book, Suskind TV appearances, links to other writings and biographical information.
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Truthdig salutes Pa. Rep. John Murtha for his sustained leadership in demanding a pullout of U.S. troops out from Iraq. Particularly inspiring was his conduct during Thursday’s congressional debate over the war. A GOP congressman all but called Murtha a coward, and the 38-year Marine veteran thundered back a response that sent the congressman scurrying for cover. In doing so, Murtha again demonstrated the Republican fallacy of equating a call for withdrawal with weakness. It’s a lesson more Democrats could stand to learn.
Watch the video of Murtha on the House floor
Read Murtha’s words from the day of the debate (Wash Po, AP, N.Y. Times)
UPDATE: Murtha steamrolls over Tim Russert (h/t: Huff Po)
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Truthdigger of the Week: Medea Benjamin
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