Audio Tribute to Valerie Plame Wilson

Staff / Truthdig Mar 17, 2007 Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer and contributors James Harris and Josh Scheer celebrate the dignity and tenacity of Truthdigger of the Week Valerie Plame Wilson. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Classic: Truthdigger of the Week: Ted Kennedy

Staff / Truthdig Jan 13, 2007 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. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Truthdiggers of the Week: Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes

Staff / Truthdig Dec 23, 2006 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. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: The Rev. Joel Hunter

Staff / Truthdig Dec 3, 2006 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." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Michael J. Fox

Staff / Truthdig Oct 28, 2006 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. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Rep. Peter Hoekstra

Staff / Truthdig Jul 10, 2006 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". Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: John Paul Stevens

Staff / Truthdig Jul 1, 2006 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. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Ron Suskind

Staff / Truthdig Jun 25, 2006 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. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: John Murtha

Staff / Truthdig Jun 17, 2006 Truthdig salutes Pa Rep John Murtha for his sustained leadership in demanding a pullout of US 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 Times) UPDATE: Murtha steamrolls over Tim Russert (h/t: Huff Po). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )