Truthdiggers

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: Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift

Staff / Truthdig Dec 16, 2006 Truthdig tips its hat to the Navy lawyer who on Dec. 11 won a major ACLU award for his successful defense in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the U.S. Supreme Court case that dashed Bush administration efforts to try terror suspects in special military courts. Dig deeper ( 5 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: John Murtha

Staff / Truthdig Nov 18, 2006 He may have lost the race for House majority leader, but he still earns our vote for leading the way in calling for an end to the Iraq war. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Truthdiggers of the Week: The Architects of Nov. 7

Staff / Truthdig Nov 11, 2006 Truthdig salutes the individuals and organizations that swept the Democrats to victory: the members of the Democratic leadership, and the progressive netroots. Kudos all around. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Truthdiggers of the Week: The Voting Machine Crusaders

Staff / Truthdig Nov 4, 2006 Truthdig salutes all the journalists, activists and researchers who have been working to expose the security flaws of electronic voting machines -- an underappreciated endeavor that is essential to the safeguarding of our democracy. 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: Mohamed ElBaradei

Staff / Truthdig Oct 21, 2006 Truthdig salutes Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the U.N.'s nuclear agency, who warned the world that up to 30 more countries could soon possess the technology necessary to produce nuclear weapons. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Truthdiggers of the Week: The Lancet Study Researchers

Staff / Truthdig Oct 14, 2006 This week Truthdig celebrates the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Al Mustansiriya University in Baghdad and the Center for International Studies at MIT as well as The Lancet for their commitment to documenting the real number of Iraqi deaths that have resulted from the 2003 U.S. military invasion of Iraq. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Mayor Ross ‘Rocky’ Anderson

Staff / Truthdig Sep 1, 2006 Truthdig salutes Rocky Anderson, the Salt Lake City mayor who spoke out against the war and reminded the world that "blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism." Anderson welcomed Bush to his city with a fiery protest speech and these searing lines: "A patriot does not tell people who are intensely concerned about their country to just sit down and be quiet; to refrain from speaking out in the name of politeness or for the sake of being a good host; to show slavish, blind obedience and deference to a dishonest, war-mongering, human-rights-violating president." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Ann Beeson

Staff / Truthdig Aug 20, 2006 Truthdig salutes Ann Beeson, the American Civil Liberties Union officer and lead attorney for the plaintiffs in ACLU v. NSA, the case that persuaded a Detroit judge to order a halt to the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Rep. John Conyers

Staff / Truthdig Aug 12, 2006 Truthdig salutes Rep. John Conyers Jr., a Democrat who has compiled and released a 371-page report that attempts to detail every alleged instance of wrongdoing that the Bush administration made during the run-up, prosecution and aftermath of the war in Iraq. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )