Truthout

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Truthout was started after the 2000 election to establish a platform for news that was buried or not otherwise reported. Among many impactful reporting topics, Truthout broke major stories contradicting the WMD claims of the Bush administration in the run up to the Iraq war, revealed serious discrepancies between the official statements and the actual facts on the ground during the invasion and occupation of Iraq including descriptions of war crimes and covered the US Attorney scandal indepth.

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Our focus during the Obama administration has been the insidious influence of money in American politics, the corporate takeover of our country and the citizen-based efforts to fight back and create the new world that we all know is possible.

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