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Pacific Free Press was launched in March 2007 by Dutch-Canadian Richard Kastelein of V.O.F. Expathos, in the Netherlands along with  Chris Cook - CFUV radio journalist and Editor in Chief of Pacific Free Press. Cook is based in , Victoria, British Columbia.

The site is a sister to Atlantic Free Press and Brick Ogden an American Expatriate in Amsterdam has been a key supporter of this project.

The mission of Pacific Free Press is simple: to dig out nuggets of truth from the slag-heap of lies, ignorance and witless diversion that has buried public discourse today. Pacific Free Press provides a new venue for disseminating hard news and insightful, fact-based analysis of the harsh realities too often ignored or distorted by the mainstream press.

 

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Bio: Chris Floyd is the Editor and co-founder of Atlantic Free Press. He is an American journalist now based in Great Britain and the UK correspondent for Truthout.org. For 10 years, he wrote the weekly Global Eye political column for The Moscow Times and St. Petersburg Times. His writings also appear in The Nation, Columbia Journalism Review, The Baltimore Chronicle, The Bergen Record and elsewhere around the world. His book, Empire Burlesque, is published by Expathos Books.

His report, Into the Dark: The Pentagon Plan to Foment Terrorism, was chosen as one of ProjectCensored's Top 25 Stories of2002/2003. His pieces have been anthologized in Media Democracy in Action: Censored 2004 and his work attracts a wide international audience, particularly in Europe, North America, and Australia. His columns are regularly featured on many other sites on the internet at sites including ICH, Lewrockwell.com, Bradblog, Salon, Counterpunch, Democratic Underground, The Smirking Chimp, Booman Tribune, William Bowles, Political Cortex and many more.

His career began in the hills and valleys of Tennessee and down in the piney swamps of southern Mississippi, covering moonshine raids, shotgun murders, drug-running evangelists, racial conflicts, the economic ravages of the Reagan Administration, and the relentless, turbulent campaign of the Religious Right to gain political power and cultural dominance throughout the "heartland." He returned to his home ground in the late 1990s, where he won awards for his coverage of a deadly hostage shootout and a bloody melee between county officials – swapping charges of corruption and adultery – at a school board meeting. Floyd spent several years in the depths of the military-industrial complex, working for a security-restricted federal research laboratory on projects dealing with energy conservation, global warming, space travel, transportation, robotics, artificial intelligence and military logistics. On the side, he published fiction and poetry in various now-forgotten journals and taught Russian literature at the University of Tennessee. Later, he annotated Shakespeare, 19th century British poetry and American literature for a start-up company producing multi-media CD editions of literary works for colleges and schools.

In 1994, he made his way to Russia, where he joined the Moscow Times, an English-language daily and one of the first independent newspapers of the post-Soviet era. There he spent two years – the high casino of the tumultuous Yeltsin era – and began writing the "Global Eye" column, which he continued after returning to the United States in 1996. He was also the Times' movie reviewer from 1996 to 2000. From 1998 to 2000, Floyd, a writer for over 20 years, was the editor of Science & Spirit, an Oxford quarterly journal dealing with the contentious relationship between science and religion.

His work there included interviews with such thinkers as Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Steven Pinker, Frans de Waal, V.S. Ramachandran and other contributors from around the world including Islamic scientists, Jewish theologians, militant atheists, Nobel Prize-winning physicists, as well as authors such as Freeman Dyson, Paul Davies, Lisa Jardine, A.N. Wilson, John Polkinghorne.

Articles

DateTitleHits
Thursday, 15 May 2008Fomenting War in Lebanon49
Saturday, 10 May 2008Rules of Engagement: Shoot, Kill, Lie, Repeat82
Friday, 09 May 2008Fallujah Comes to Sadr City168
Friday, 02 May 2008Feeding Moloch203
Thursday, 01 May 2008Protection with Extreme Prejudice176
Saturday, 26 April 2008Glad Embrace: America and the Dictator189
Wednesday, 23 April 2008SEX and CARS and SEX and GUNS and Somalia261
Sunday, 20 April 2008Team Torture: Accounting for Bush and Co.265
Thursday, 10 April 2008In Defense of John Yoo244
Saturday, 05 April 2008A Radical Unremembered223
Thursday, 27 March 2008Ignorance Puts Iraq on the Cross240
Wednesday, 19 March 2008Iran in the Shadow of War294
Thursday, 13 March 2008More than Sex: Spitzer Meets the Real Governor265
Saturday, 01 March 2008Obama and the Delicate Balance of Reality265
Thursday, 28 February 2008Death and Chaos No Problem for Profit-Seekers in Iraq253
Sunday, 24 February 2008Empire and Burlesque368
Sunday, 17 February 2008Praise Judge Scalia, Who Gives Us Hope in This Dark Hour292
Saturday, 16 February 2008Return of the Empire Burlesque281
Sunday, 10 February 2008An Elite Exposed in an Exit Speech314
Thursday, 07 February 2008Criminal Intent: America's Air War over Baghdad326
Saturday, 02 February 2008Electing The Great American President349
Saturday, 26 January 2008Why We (Canadians) Fight in Afghanistan354
Tuesday, 22 January 2008Crime Without Arrest296
Sunday, 20 January 2008Front Lines of a War Crime301
Monday, 14 January 2008Number Crunching the Death Count361
Saturday, 12 January 2008Warrior on Drugs: War without Tears539
Thursday, 10 January 2008Shadows: Proliferation, Corruption and the Way of the World491
Sunday, 06 January 2008Haditha: No Justice for Iraq Atrocity347
Thursday, 03 January 2008War Parties United348
Sunday, 30 December 2007Not Alright, Jack: A State of the Union330
Saturday, 29 December 2007Al Gore and the Bali Ballyhoo317
Sunday, 23 December 2007Clarity and Truth Resurrected240
Sunday, 16 December 2007The Democrat's Progress: No Progress359
Friday, 14 December 2007Bailing out Again the Billionaires324
Wednesday, 05 December 2007An Expert Dissection of the NIE Report457
Monday, 03 December 2007The (other) War Party591
Wednesday, 28 November 2007Cluing in on the Racist Effete662
Sunday, 25 November 2007Passing: Howard the Schmuck685
Thursday, 22 November 2007Martin Amis and the Gentile Racists674
Monday, 12 November 2007Defending the Constitutional Right to Torture546
Wednesday, 07 November 2007A Cowed Nation's Wilful Surrender613
Saturday, 03 November 2007Just Shoot Me591
Wednesday, 31 October 2007NRA Gun Cult Goes South of the Border824
Saturday, 20 October 2007Rebuking the Truth, Mocking the Dead548
Sunday, 14 October 2007Torture World: Laying Back and Enjoying It476
Thursday, 11 October 2007Plan Opium: Afghanistan's Coming Fumigare672
Monday, 08 October 2007Marching Into Nightmare with 'King David' General Petraeus583
Thursday, 04 October 2007 Back From the Hack, and Once More Into the Breach680
Thursday, 27 September 2007Iraq: Plumbing the Depths562
Wednesday, 19 September 2007The Cash of Civilizations: Bombs and Baksheesh550
Thursday, 13 September 2007Britain: Clinging to the War Wagon658
Wednesday, 12 September 20079/11: Swamp Gas692
Saturday, 01 September 2007First Tucker Came for the Fags588
Wednesday, 22 August 2007Catch-22 Redux748
Monday, 20 August 2007Bushists Through the Looking-Glass on Iran774
Saturday, 18 August 2007Torture State: The Returns of Tyranny612
Friday, 17 August 2007Silber: A Final Word on Iran712
Wednesday, 15 August 2007Rove Goes But the Malevolent Machine Rolls On661
Monday, 13 August 2007Panic Attack: Rove Packs Bags in Big-Time Bushist Bug-Out686
Thursday, 09 August 2007FEMA Writ Large: Masters of Disaster832
Sunday, 05 August 2007Further On Bush's Anti-Dissent Order820
Sunday, 05 August 2007Money Power and the Minneapolis Bridge825
Tuesday, 31 July 2007More on Bush's Anti-Dissent Order878
Thursday, 26 July 2007Failed Surge: Death from Above634
Saturday, 21 July 2007Pervert's Parade: Executive Privilege579
Wednesday, 18 July 2007Bad, Bad, Vlad786
Friday, 13 July 2007Iran: Senate Issues Unanimous War Cheque1437
Monday, 09 July 2007Hanging on to the Holocene Days675
Monday, 09 July 2007Bone Dance: A Late Epiphany at the New York Times728
Monday, 02 July 2007Iran: Another Turn of the Propaganda Screw2120
Sunday, 01 July 2007Liberate with Extreme Prejudice955
Wednesday, 27 June 2007Law Gone South1171
Monday, 25 June 2007Tragic Legacy882
Saturday, 16 June 2007Pawns743
Wednesday, 13 June 2007Somalia: "Kill Them All"633
Monday, 11 June 2007Sami al-Haj: The Last King of Cuba873
Sunday, 10 June 2007Bandar Bush and the Bandergate Revelations927
Saturday, 02 June 2007Lost Kitt Hitchens917
Sunday, 27 May 2007The Lie of Lebanon Refugee Crisis783
Thursday, 24 May 2007Iran: Surfin' the Surge778
Monday, 21 May 2007Riding the Regime Change Trail776
Thursday, 17 May 2007A Farewell to Falwell690
Sunday, 13 May 2007Britons Pay for Bush Crimes842
Tuesday, 08 May 2007Hacking Dissent938
Wednesday, 02 May 2007Shock and Yawn842
Friday, 27 April 2007Somalia: Getting the Real Story1175
Monday, 23 April 2007Somalia: Filling the Streets with the Dead1115
Saturday, 21 April 2007Walling In Iraqis794
Sunday, 15 April 2007No Refuge989
Thursday, 12 April 2007Hello. Goodbye. Kurt Vonnegut Off to Tralfamador1207
Monday, 09 April 2007Somalia Terror War Spreading918
Friday, 06 April 2007All the Perfume of Arabia...977
Thursday, 05 April 2007Iraq: Again Claiming the Prize922
Wednesday, 04 April 2007Slavery Now!942
Sunday, 01 April 2007Black Hawk Up: Back to Club Mog1000
Saturday, 31 March 2007The 'Post Human' Society846
Monday, 26 March 2007That 'Other' Regime Change891
Friday, 23 March 2007Rendered Unto Caesar871
Friday, 09 March 2007Oprah's Mysterious Hole on America975
Friday, 09 March 2007A Tip o' the Hat937
Monday, 05 March 2007A Free Press1114
Saturday, 03 March 2007Operation Enduring Idiocy996
Monday, 26 February 2007Bush Faction Arming Al Qaeda818
Thursday, 22 February 2007Riverbend: The Rape of Sabrine al-Janabi922
Sunday, 18 February 2007Dirty War, Dirty Warriors767
Wednesday, 07 February 2007Ersatz Apocalypto: Slaughter and Spin in the Battle for Najaf736
Saturday, 03 February 2007Bush Backers Offer Bribes to Undercut Global Warming Report843
Tuesday, 30 January 2007Shooting Party: Big Bangs in Little Bushworld804
Monday, 29 January 2007Untruth and Consequences: The Reality Behind Iran War Rhetoric930
Sunday, 28 January 2007Friendly Fire? Another Look at Brazen Raid in Iraq817
Friday, 26 January 2007Death and Dishonor: Bush's New Assassination Order968
Wednesday, 24 January 2007Blogging a Dead Horse; or The Ballad of Luther Baldwin1022
Friday, 19 January 2007Burnt Offering: 3,000 Sacrifices to Greed and Folly1063
Thursday, 18 January 2007Court Circular: Richard Cohen and the Apologists of Power1135
Tuesday, 16 January 2007Iran and Reality: A Flickering Light on the Edge of Disaster1204
Sunday, 14 January 2007Get Your War On: Bush Plays Casus Belli Card Against Iran1238
Saturday, 13 January 2007Marching to Persia: First Blows Struck in Bush's War on Iran1009
Wednesday, 10 January 2007Mondo Apocalypto: Somalis Sacrificed for Bush's Speech1029
Wednesday, 10 January 2007Blood Meridian: Bush's High Crimes of Torture and War1281
Tuesday, 09 January 2007US Attacks Somalia, Taking Sides With Former Enemy Warlords964
Tuesday, 09 January 2007Claiming the Prize: Bush Surge Aimed at Securing Iraqi Oil981
Thursday, 04 January 2007Thug Bones in Bushland and Babylon920
Monday, 01 January 2007CYA for the USA: The Coverup of Complicity Continues1101
Sunday, 31 December 2006Hang Times: A Whitewash of White House Complicity1549
Sunday, 31 December 2006 Illegal Procedure: The Quick and the Dead803
Sunday, 31 December 2006Rope Trick: Burying America's Collusion With Saddam868
Wednesday, 27 December 2006The Enduring Legacy of Gerald R. Ford888
Monday, 25 December 2006Escalation and Expansion: Bush's "Great Leap Forward" Into Hell864
Saturday, 23 December 2006Last Bad Deal Gone Down: War Profits Trump the Rule of Law789
Friday, 22 December 2006A Chronicle of Escalation Foretold: The Red Crescent Assault846
Wednesday, 20 December 2006Let It Come Down: Forcing the Constitutional Crisis of Liberty976
Monday, 18 December 2006Annals of the Damned Human Race: Liberating Afghans, Body and Soul1000
Saturday, 16 December 2006Tears of Rage, Tears of Grief: Mass Death Returns to Ishaqi989
Wednesday, 13 December 2006Presidential Tyranny Untamed by Election Defeat930
Tuesday, 12 December 2006America's Shame: Brought Low By a Gang of Cretins1203
Thursday, 07 December 2006Meese of Arabia and the Baker Group's Grab for Black Gold1094
Wednesday, 06 December 2006Voices Carry: Metaphysics as a Guide to Murder948
Monday, 04 December 2006 Pale Fire and London Fog: Illuminating Outliers in the Death of Alexander Litvinenko1005
Friday, 01 December 2006Pale Fire and London Fog: Illuminating Outliers in the Death of Alexander Litvinenko1136
Wednesday, 29 November 2006Hideous Kinky: The Genocidal Fury of Thomas Friedman1008
Monday, 27 November 2006"Our War Against Canada": Alex Cox and the Long March of American Militarism1182
Monday, 27 November 2006Women and Children First: The Lessons of Iraq1054
Thursday, 23 November 2006Giving Thanks in the Shadow of the Terror War1090
Tuesday, 21 November 2006 Who Killed RFK? New BBC Documentary Points to CIA1126
Monday, 20 November 2006Snow Blind: American-Backed Murder in Colombia997
Friday, 17 November 2006Family Feud: Little Bush Hits Back at Daddy1016
Friday, 17 November 2006Freshman Class War: New Senator Sends Message on Economic Injustice996
Thursday, 16 November 2006 Bush's "New" Iraq Strategy Revealed: More Troops, More War1041
Thursday, 16 November 2006Sympathetic Labour Pains: Tony Blair's Post-Election Panic Attack961
Wednesday, 15 November 2006No Exit: The Baker Commission and the Trap of Reality1009
Friday, 10 November 2006A Beacon of Hope and Unity in the Middle East921
Thursday, 09 November 2006The Deeper Reality Behind Rumsfeld's Resignation1078
Wednesday, 08 November 2006Election 2006: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me1043
Tuesday, 07 November 2006Armagideon Time: Bush's Nuclear Folly and the National Security Lie920
Tuesday, 07 November 2006Sandinista! How Will Bush Make Nicaragua Pay for its Disobedience?768
Monday, 06 November 2006Behind Bush's Nuclear Gift to Terrorism1090
Monday, 06 November 2006Paper Trail:Turning the Corner With a Timely Verdict901
Friday, 03 November 2006Endgame: The Lights Are Going Out All Over Baghdad939
Wednesday, 01 November 2006Postcards of the Hanging: Race and Sex in Tennessee1111
Tuesday, 31 October 2006The "War for Oil" Comes Home1055
Friday, 27 October 2006Catapulting the Propaganda with the Washington Post1043
Wednesday, 25 October 2006Blood and Gravy II: The Jackal's Feast Goes On1320
Tuesday, 24 October 2006Brutality and Reality: The American-Israeli Arrangement1059
Wednesday, 18 October 2006Sentimental Education: Academia Signs Up for Tracking Down Dissent1162
Tuesday, 17 October 2006Why Bush Smiles: Victory is at Hand in Iraq979
Thursday, 12 October 2006Text Sex and Context: Foleygate in Perspective1062
Tuesday, 10 October 2006Red October: Killing the Truth in Moscow1371
Tuesday, 10 October 2006Swing Blades: Don Rumsfeld Bats Both Ways885
Monday, 02 October 2006War in Heaven: Woodward's Book and the Establishment Insurgency984
Saturday, 30 September 2006Thunder on the Mountain: The Murderers of Democracy1118
Thursday, 21 September 2006Immaculate Conception: A Squirt in the White House1147
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