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We live in a complex world. Mainstream media rarely tells us the whole story. At WantToKnow.info, we go beyond today's headlines to uncover the hidden forces shaping history and driving global events today, regardless of who's elected in office. Our organization serves a dual purpose: exposing verifiable information on high level corruption and cover-ups and highlighting the best of humanity with solutions and stories that remind us of our innate goodness and collective power.
Welcome to WantToKnow.info
Our organization was founded by White House whistleblower Fred Burks in 2003, after he testified in a high-profile terrorism trial about how U.S. government officials repeatedly lied to the international press during his time as a language interpreter for presidents and top government officials around the world. This website has received over 24 million visits since it was first established in 2003, with a dedicated mission to provide our readers with reliable, verifiable information.
In our weekly newsletters, we uncover and summarize key news stories overlooked by the mainstream—highlighting both the darker forces shaping society as well as the powerful forces that are creating positive change and transformation on Earth. Our weekly newsletters are carefully curated, drawing from the best of the corporate and independent media landscape. These news summaries get entered in our comprehensive database of over 13+ news articles, which has been used by thousands of journalists, researchers, and everyday truth seekers since our founding.
Substack Archive
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Transforming Media Polarization, One Echo Chamber At A Time
Working Together To End the War On Peace in Ukraine
Beyond Elon Musk: How Blockchain Technology Can Fix Government Waste and Restore Financial Freedom
Transforming the War Machine, One Human Story at a Time
Healing the Culture Wars–One Conscious Conversation at a Time
The Dark Truths Behind the US War on Drugs That Mainstream Media Ignores
Make Our Communities Healthier Again—Inspiring Remedies to the Chronic Illness Crisis
Epstein Was Just the Tip of the Iceberg: How Blackmail Subverts Democracy
"No society can understand itself without looking at its shadow side."
— Gabor Maté
Latest News
All information on WantToKnow.info is taken from the most reliable sources available, both corporate and independent. They can be verified using the links provided to their original, respected sources.
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Inspiring News
Understanding the magnitude of secrecy, corruption, and power abuses hidden from public awareness is vital to a democratic society. Yet reporting on the problems of the world is not enough. Solutions to society's problems are often under-reported and reforms go unrealized. Since 2003, we’ve documented some of the best insights, resources, and thousands of inspiring news articles on the powerful role of art and creativity in social change, solutions to the world’s most pressing problems, mysterious explorations into consciousness and spirituality, and incredible stories of human goodness and resilience.
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"We became so enamored of topple-the-mighty journalism that we forgot about raise-up-the-people journalism."
— Geneva Overholser, award-winning journalist, educator and scholar
Video Series
We host a variety of engaging video series which explore the news and controversial topics with uncensored investigation, nuance, and mindful inquiry. And no matter the topic, we always end our news briefs on an inspiring, constructive note.
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We also create brief video recaps of our weekly news summaries, where we save you time by summarizing important news articles buried by the mainstream— revealing both the darker forces shaping society and the best of human goodness, creativity, and possibility.
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"Propaganda ends where simple dialogue begins."
— Jacques Ellul, French political and social scientist
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Our newsletters are carefully curated, drawing from the best of the corporate and independent media landscape. Each week, we research and summarize over a dozen key media articles that challenge mainstream narratives on important issues shaping society. Once every two weeks, we also send out an inspiring story or news to a separate email list as a balance to the challenging material on cover-ups and corruption. Explore our newsletter archive to see past messages.
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"The collective fear, secrecy, polarization, and loss of purpose within all of us have allowed leaders to subvert democracy, and to take away our freedoms. By each one of us making a commitment to work on these issues both inside ourselves and out in the world, we are changing our collective dinrection for a brighter future."
— Fred Burks, PEERS Founder
Information Centers
This website has received over 24 million visits since it was first established in 2003, with a dedicated mission to provide our readers with reliable, verifiable information.
We compile information from trustworthy sources. The perspectives we draw upon are varietal, and they’re not always aligned with social consensus. Our approach invites our readers to make better sense of the complex issues society is facing, in order to be informed and balanced in our thinking. To help with this sensemaking, we’ve put together Information Centers on a dozen of the most critical topics.
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Key Members of the PEERS Team
WantToKnow.info is a website of the nonprofit Public Education and Empowerment Resource Service (PEERS). We are a small organization with a large network of volunteers of people with diverse backgrounds in media activism, journalism, high-level government work, academia, social justice advocacy, grassroots organizing, and metaphysics and spirituality work. The work of WantToKnow.info relies on a group of courageous, dedicated researchers and concerned citizens from around the globe who have made key contributions to our site. Some of these people have written key books which are concisely summarized on this website. Others have sent valuable information revealing major cover-ups.
Our website was founded by Fred Burks, who served as a language interpreter for presidents and other government officials around the world including G.W. Bush, Clinton, Gore, and Cheney. Late in his career, he stumbled down a rabbit hole where he discovered significant levels of global deception and manipulation. His courageous whistleblowing was reported on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. Learn more about the fascinating history of PEERS and WantToKnow.info.
Individuals Who Have Made Key Contributions to WantToKnow.info
- Kristina Borjesson - Emmy award-winning journalist and media activist
- Fred Burks - Presidential interpreter, website manager, cover-up researcher
- Norma Carr-Ruffino, PhD - Professor of management, author of nine books
- Steven M. Greer, MD - ER physician, author, founder of Disclosure Project
- Leonard Horowitz, DMD - Author, speaker, authority in public health education
- Michael Levine - 25-year veteran of DEA, award-winning author, radio show host
- Peter Lindemann, DSc - Author, researcher, expert in field of new energy
- Pamela J. Monday, PhD - Professional counselor, lecturer, researcher
- Peter Phillips, PhD - Professor specializing in media, director of Project Censored
- Carol Rutz - Author, lecturer, researcher, recovered mind control survivor
- Peter Dale Scott, PhD - UC Berkeley professor, author, cover-up researcher
- Paul Thompson - Author, researcher, creator and manager of the 9/11 Timeline
- Charles S. Viar - Expert in intelligence and counterintelligence, 30 years experience
