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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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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
Thursday, 15 May 2008 Fomenting War in Lebanon 49
Saturday, 10 May 2008 Rules of Engagement: Shoot, Kill, Lie, Repeat 82
Friday, 09 May 2008 Fallujah Comes to Sadr City 168
Friday, 02 May 2008 Feeding Moloch 203
Thursday, 01 May 2008 Protection with Extreme Prejudice 176
Saturday, 26 April 2008 Glad Embrace: America and the Dictator 189
Wednesday, 23 April 2008 SEX and CARS and SEX and GUNS and Somalia 261
Sunday, 20 April 2008 Team Torture: Accounting for Bush and Co. 265
Thursday, 10 April 2008 In Defense of John Yoo 244
Saturday, 05 April 2008 A Radical Unremembered 223
Thursday, 27 March 2008 Ignorance Puts Iraq on the Cross 240
Wednesday, 19 March 2008 Iran in the Shadow of War 294
Thursday, 13 March 2008 More than Sex: Spitzer Meets the Real Governor 265
Saturday, 01 March 2008 Obama and the Delicate Balance of Reality 265
Thursday, 28 February 2008 Death and Chaos No Problem for Profit-Seekers in Iraq 253
Sunday, 24 February 2008 Empire and Burlesque 368
Sunday, 17 February 2008 Praise Judge Scalia, Who Gives Us Hope in This Dark Hour 292
Saturday, 16 February 2008 Return of the Empire Burlesque 281
Sunday, 10 February 2008 An Elite Exposed in an Exit Speech 314
Thursday, 07 February 2008 Criminal Intent: America's Air War over Baghdad 326
Saturday, 02 February 2008 Electing The Great American President 349
Saturday, 26 January 2008 Why We (Canadians) Fight in Afghanistan 354
Tuesday, 22 January 2008 Crime Without Arrest 296
Sunday, 20 January 2008 Front Lines of a War Crime 301
Monday, 14 January 2008 Number Crunching the Death Count 361
Saturday, 12 January 2008 Warrior on Drugs: War without Tears 539
Thursday, 10 January 2008 Shadows: Proliferation, Corruption and the Way of the World 491
Sunday, 06 January 2008 Haditha: No Justice for Iraq Atrocity 347
Thursday, 03 January 2008 War Parties United 348
Sunday, 30 December 2007 Not Alright, Jack: A State of the Union 330
Saturday, 29 December 2007 Al Gore and the Bali Ballyhoo 317
Sunday, 23 December 2007 Clarity and Truth Resurrected 240
Sunday, 16 December 2007 The Democrat's Progress: No Progress 359
Friday, 14 December 2007 Bailing out Again the Billionaires 324
Wednesday, 05 December 2007 An Expert Dissection of the NIE Report 457
Monday, 03 December 2007 The (other) War Party 591
Wednesday, 28 November 2007 Cluing in on the Racist Effete 662
Sunday, 25 November 2007 Passing: Howard the Schmuck 685
Thursday, 22 November 2007 Martin Amis and the Gentile Racists 674
Monday, 12 November 2007 Defending the Constitutional Right to Torture 546
Wednesday, 07 November 2007 A Cowed Nation's Wilful Surrender 613
Saturday, 03 November 2007 Just Shoot Me 591
Wednesday, 31 October 2007 NRA Gun Cult Goes South of the Border 824
Saturday, 20 October 2007 Rebuking the Truth, Mocking the Dead 548
Sunday, 14 October 2007 Torture World: Laying Back and Enjoying It 476
Thursday, 11 October 2007 Plan Opium: Afghanistan's Coming Fumigare 672
Monday, 08 October 2007 Marching Into Nightmare with 'King David' General Petraeus 583
Thursday, 04 October 2007 Back From the Hack, and Once More Into the Breach 680
Thursday, 27 September 2007 Iraq: Plumbing the Depths 562
Wednesday, 19 September 2007 The Cash of Civilizations: Bombs and Baksheesh 550
Thursday, 13 September 2007 Britain: Clinging to the War Wagon 658
Wednesday, 12 September 2007 9/11: Swamp Gas 692
Saturday, 01 September 2007 First Tucker Came for the Fags 588
Wednesday, 22 August 2007 Catch-22 Redux 748
Monday, 20 August 2007 Bushists Through the Looking-Glass on Iran 774
Saturday, 18 August 2007 Torture State: The Returns of Tyranny 612
Friday, 17 August 2007 Silber: A Final Word on Iran 712
Wednesday, 15 August 2007 Rove Goes But the Malevolent Machine Rolls On 661
Monday, 13 August 2007 Panic Attack: Rove Packs Bags in Big-Time Bushist Bug-Out 686
Thursday, 09 August 2007 FEMA Writ Large: Masters of Disaster 832
Sunday, 05 August 2007 Further On Bush's Anti-Dissent Order 820
Sunday, 05 August 2007 Money Power and the Minneapolis Bridge 825
Tuesday, 31 July 2007 More on Bush's Anti-Dissent Order 878
Thursday, 26 July 2007 Failed Surge: Death from Above 634
Saturday, 21 July 2007 Pervert's Parade: Executive Privilege 579
Wednesday, 18 July 2007 Bad, Bad, Vlad 786
Friday, 13 July 2007 Iran: Senate Issues Unanimous War Cheque 1437
Monday, 09 July 2007 Hanging on to the Holocene Days 675
Monday, 09 July 2007 Bone Dance: A Late Epiphany at the New York Times 728
Monday, 02 July 2007 Iran: Another Turn of the Propaganda Screw 2120
Sunday, 01 July 2007 Liberate with Extreme Prejudice 955
Wednesday, 27 June 2007 Law Gone South 1171
Monday, 25 June 2007 Tragic Legacy 882
Saturday, 16 June 2007 Pawns 743
Wednesday, 13 June 2007 Somalia: "Kill Them All" 633
Monday, 11 June 2007 Sami al-Haj: The Last King of Cuba 873
Sunday, 10 June 2007 Bandar Bush and the Bandergate Revelations 927
Saturday, 02 June 2007 Lost Kitt Hitchens 917
Sunday, 27 May 2007 The Lie of Lebanon Refugee Crisis 783
Thursday, 24 May 2007 Iran: Surfin' the Surge 778
Monday, 21 May 2007 Riding the Regime Change Trail 776
Thursday, 17 May 2007 A Farewell to Falwell 690
Sunday, 13 May 2007 Britons Pay for Bush Crimes 842
Tuesday, 08 May 2007 Hacking Dissent 938
Wednesday, 02 May 2007 Shock and Yawn 842
Friday, 27 April 2007 Somalia: Getting the Real Story 1175
Monday, 23 April 2007 Somalia: Filling the Streets with the Dead 1115
Saturday, 21 April 2007 Walling In Iraqis 794
Sunday, 15 April 2007 No Refuge 989
Thursday, 12 April 2007 Hello. Goodbye. Kurt Vonnegut Off to Tralfamador 1207
Monday, 09 April 2007 Somalia Terror War Spreading 918
Friday, 06 April 2007 All the Perfume of Arabia... 977
Thursday, 05 April 2007 Iraq: Again Claiming the Prize 922
Wednesday, 04 April 2007 Slavery Now! 942
Sunday, 01 April 2007 Black Hawk Up: Back to Club Mog 1000
Saturday, 31 March 2007 The 'Post Human' Society 846
Monday, 26 March 2007 That 'Other' Regime Change 891
Friday, 23 March 2007 Rendered Unto Caesar 871
Friday, 09 March 2007 Oprah's Mysterious Hole on America 975
Friday, 09 March 2007 A Tip o' the Hat 937
Monday, 05 March 2007 A Free Press 1114
Saturday, 03 March 2007 Operation Enduring Idiocy 996
Monday, 26 February 2007 Bush Faction Arming Al Qaeda 818
Thursday, 22 February 2007 Riverbend: The Rape of Sabrine al-Janabi 922
Sunday, 18 February 2007 Dirty War, Dirty Warriors 767
Wednesday, 07 February 2007 Ersatz Apocalypto: Slaughter and Spin in the Battle for Najaf 736
Saturday, 03 February 2007 Bush Backers Offer Bribes to Undercut Global Warming Report 843
Tuesday, 30 January 2007 Shooting Party: Big Bangs in Little Bushworld 804
Monday, 29 January 2007 Untruth and Consequences: The Reality Behind Iran War Rhetoric 930
Sunday, 28 January 2007 Friendly Fire? Another Look at Brazen Raid in Iraq 817
Friday, 26 January 2007 Death and Dishonor: Bush's New Assassination Order 968
Wednesday, 24 January 2007 Blogging a Dead Horse; or The Ballad of Luther Baldwin 1022
Friday, 19 January 2007 Burnt Offering: 3,000 Sacrifices to Greed and Folly 1063
Thursday, 18 January 2007 Court Circular: Richard Cohen and the Apologists of Power 1135
Tuesday, 16 January 2007 Iran and Reality: A Flickering Light on the Edge of Disaster 1204
Sunday, 14 January 2007 Get Your War On: Bush Plays Casus Belli Card Against Iran 1238
Saturday, 13 January 2007 Marching to Persia: First Blows Struck in Bush's War on Iran 1009
Wednesday, 10 January 2007 Mondo Apocalypto: Somalis Sacrificed for Bush's Speech 1029
Wednesday, 10 January 2007 Blood Meridian: Bush's High Crimes of Torture and War 1281
Tuesday, 09 January 2007 US Attacks Somalia, Taking Sides With Former Enemy Warlords 964
Tuesday, 09 January 2007 Claiming the Prize: Bush Surge Aimed at Securing Iraqi Oil 981
Thursday, 04 January 2007 Thug Bones in Bushland and Babylon 920
Monday, 01 January 2007 CYA for the USA: The Coverup of Complicity Continues 1101
Sunday, 31 December 2006 Hang Times: A Whitewash of White House Complicity 1549
Sunday, 31 December 2006 Illegal Procedure: The Quick and the Dead 803
Sunday, 31 December 2006 Rope Trick: Burying America's Collusion With Saddam 868
Wednesday, 27 December 2006 The Enduring Legacy of Gerald R. Ford 888
Monday, 25 December 2006 Escalation and Expansion: Bush's "Great Leap Forward" Into Hell 864
Saturday, 23 December 2006 Last Bad Deal Gone Down: War Profits Trump the Rule of Law 789
Friday, 22 December 2006 A Chronicle of Escalation Foretold: The Red Crescent Assault 846
Wednesday, 20 December 2006 Let It Come Down: Forcing the Constitutional Crisis of Liberty 976
Monday, 18 December 2006 Annals of the Damned Human Race: Liberating Afghans, Body and Soul 1000
Saturday, 16 December 2006 Tears of Rage, Tears of Grief: Mass Death Returns to Ishaqi 989
Wednesday, 13 December 2006 Presidential Tyranny Untamed by Election Defeat 930
Tuesday, 12 December 2006 America's Shame: Brought Low By a Gang of Cretins 1203
Thursday, 07 December 2006 Meese of Arabia and the Baker Group's Grab for Black Gold 1094
Wednesday, 06 December 2006 Voices Carry: Metaphysics as a Guide to Murder 948
Monday, 04 December 2006 Pale Fire and London Fog: Illuminating Outliers in the Death of Alexander Litvinenko 1005
Friday, 01 December 2006 Pale Fire and London Fog: Illuminating Outliers in the Death of Alexander Litvinenko 1136
Wednesday, 29 November 2006 Hideous Kinky: The Genocidal Fury of Thomas Friedman 1008
Monday, 27 November 2006 "Our War Against Canada": Alex Cox and the Long March of American Militarism 1182
Monday, 27 November 2006 Women and Children First: The Lessons of Iraq 1054
Thursday, 23 November 2006 Giving Thanks in the Shadow of the Terror War 1090
Tuesday, 21 November 2006 Who Killed RFK? New BBC Documentary Points to CIA 1126
Monday, 20 November 2006 Snow Blind: American-Backed Murder in Colombia 997
Friday, 17 November 2006 Family Feud: Little Bush Hits Back at Daddy 1016
Friday, 17 November 2006 Freshman Class War: New Senator Sends Message on Economic Injustice 996
Thursday, 16 November 2006 Bush's "New" Iraq Strategy Revealed: More Troops, More War 1041
Thursday, 16 November 2006 Sympathetic Labour Pains: Tony Blair's Post-Election Panic Attack 961
Wednesday, 15 November 2006 No Exit: The Baker Commission and the Trap of Reality 1009
Friday, 10 November 2006 A Beacon of Hope and Unity in the Middle East 921
Thursday, 09 November 2006 The Deeper Reality Behind Rumsfeld's Resignation 1078
Wednesday, 08 November 2006 Election 2006: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me 1043
Tuesday, 07 November 2006 Armagideon Time: Bush's Nuclear Folly and the National Security Lie 920
Tuesday, 07 November 2006 Sandinista! How Will Bush Make Nicaragua Pay for its Disobedience? 768
Monday, 06 November 2006 Behind Bush's Nuclear Gift to Terrorism 1090
Monday, 06 November 2006 Paper Trail:Turning the Corner With a Timely Verdict 901
Friday, 03 November 2006 Endgame: The Lights Are Going Out All Over Baghdad 939
Wednesday, 01 November 2006 Postcards of the Hanging: Race and Sex in Tennessee 1111
Tuesday, 31 October 2006 The "War for Oil" Comes Home 1055
Friday, 27 October 2006 Catapulting the Propaganda with the Washington Post 1043
Wednesday, 25 October 2006 Blood and Gravy II: The Jackal's Feast Goes On 1320
Tuesday, 24 October 2006 Brutality and Reality: The American-Israeli Arrangement 1059
Wednesday, 18 October 2006 Sentimental Education: Academia Signs Up for Tracking Down Dissent 1162
Tuesday, 17 October 2006 Why Bush Smiles: Victory is at Hand in Iraq 979
Thursday, 12 October 2006 Text Sex and Context: Foleygate in Perspective 1062
Tuesday, 10 October 2006 Red October: Killing the Truth in Moscow 1371
Tuesday, 10 October 2006 Swing Blades: Don Rumsfeld Bats Both Ways 885
Monday, 02 October 2006 War in Heaven: Woodward's Book and the Establishment Insurgency 984
Saturday, 30 September 2006 Thunder on the Mountain: The Murderers of Democracy 1118
Thursday, 21 September 2006 Immaculate Conception: A Squirt in the White House 1147