Sentence:  WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, [...]. They also exposed the <WSD>blatant</WSD> discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Obvious, on show; unashamed; loudly obtrusive or offensive.