What's happened to truth-out.org?

[Ghost in the Machine]

All I'm getting is a "site offline" message...

:shrug:

Hopefully it's a scheduled outage?

[katanalori]

1. I got an email from them a few hours ago

Dear Truthout Community,

On Wednesday afternoon, Truthout published a major investigative story I’d spent the past two months working on. The report centered on the brutal torture of one of the first Guantanamo detainees, Australian David Hicks.

Hicks, who has never spoken publicly before, has been bombarded with interview requests from major media organizations around the world. But he turned them all down and granted Truthout his very first interview, because of the groundbreaking work we have done over the past several years to spotlight the crimes committed in our name.

My conversations with Hicks and the two Guantanamo guards who came forward to support his account took an enormous toll on me, and resulted in one of the most difficult stories I have ever written.

What sets Truthout apart from our media colleagues is that long after the 24-hour news cycle has stopped paying attention to a crucial issue, we continue to hammer away. I'm so grateful to work for an independent news organization that understands and values the importance of sticking with the story. And I'm truly appreciative of you, our incredibly loyal readership, for making these efforts possible.

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[Ghost in the Machine]

2. Wow, I didn't even get that email..

The last one I got was their daily update with all of their headlines:

Thursday 7 February 2011

Wisconsin Crowds Swell to 30,000; Key GOP Legislators Waver
John Nichols, The Nation: "'I have never been prouder of our movement than I am at this moment,' shouted Wisconsin AFL-CIO President Phil Neuenfeldt, as he surveyed the crowds of union members and their supporters that surged around the state Capitol and into the streets of Madison Wednesday, literally closing the downtown as tens of thousands of Wisconsinites protested their Republican governor's attempt to strip public employee unions of their collective bargaining rights."
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Bahrain Police Crack Down; Five Dead and Hundreds Hurt
Michael Slackman and Nadim Audi, The New York Times News Service: "Without warning, hundreds of heavily armed riot police officers rushed into Pearl Square here early Thursday, firing shotguns, tear gas and concussion grenades at the thousands of demonstrators who were sleeping there as part of a widening protest against the nation's absolute monarchy."
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News in Brief: Unrest and Police Brutality Continues in Arab World, and More ...
Protests and violence continue in several countries in the Middle East and North Africa; unrest and protests continued to spread through several cities in Iraq on Thursday; a local teachers union reported that 20 protesters were injured during clashes with police in the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca yesterday; BP complains about compensation fund for oil disaster victims; Baghdad wants US to pay for damages.
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Thanks for the info, katanalori. I hope they are back on soon..

Peace,

Ghost

[Ghost in the Machine]

3. It's back up now..

I guess it was just a scheduled maintanence outage or something..