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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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The Nangarhar Massacre

Written by Chris Floyd
Thursday, 17 July 2008
Imperial Wizards: The Nangarhar Massacre and U.S. Plans for Central Asia by Chris Floyd At first, the Pentagon denied that American planes had slaughtered dozens of Afghan civilians on their way to a wedding in the Nangarhar mountains. The mourning groom Shah Zareen (L) and his father described the day "Pure propaganda," said the usual media and blogosphere sycophants. "It's always 'a wedding' being hit, the same old story." Read More Add Comment (0)

Plame: The Scandal Bush Can't Outrun

Written by Jason Leopold
Thursday, 17 July 2008
Bush Asserts Exec Privilege; Blocks DOJ From Releasing CIA Leak Documents by Jason Leopold In the latest twist in the “Plame-gate” scandal, President George W. Bush has asserted executive privilege to block release of Vice President Dick Cheney’s interview with a special prosecutor about possible criminal violations in the leaking of a CIA officer’s covert identity. Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, promptly denounced the White House legal reasoning as “ludicrous,” noting that executive privilege covers advice that an aide gives the President, not responses to legal questions posed by a prosecutor about a possible crime. Read More Add Comment (0)

Torture American Style: Omar Khadr's Tale of the Tape

Written by Chris Cook
Wednesday, 16 July 2008
Torture American Style: Omar Khadr's Tale of the Tape by C. L. Cook Last week, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper refused to entertain petitioning the United States for the return of "child soldier" Omar Khadr, the last "coalition of the willing" country citizen held at Guantanamo Bay's infamous Camp X-Ray. Today, Khadr's legal team released video tape of his "interrogation" by members of Canada's secret service, CSIS. The video is below, and not for the squeamish. By refusing to intercede, Harper is complicit in the violation of a number of international treaties Canada, unlike the United States, is a signatory to. Below the break is an article I wrote on the Khadr case in May of this year. Read More Add Comment (0)

Lessons Lawyers Teach on Torture

Written by American News Project
Wednesday, 16 July 2008
Ten Lessons from Recent Torture Hearings by ANP Lawyers who approved "enhanced interrogation tactics" are under increasing pressure to explain them. Read More Add Comment (0)

Iran: More War or Talk?

Written by William Bowles
Monday, 14 July 2008
War, war, war or Jaw, jaw, jaw? by William Bowles It’s amazing isn’t it how the media, given the appropriate cues from the state, so readily slips into a warring state of mind. I’m talking of course about Iran. All the major media outlets have shifted into top gear over the past couple of weeks and, for the first time, talked about Israel’s role as the frontline ‘dog of war’ on behalf of its paymaster, the US. You have to ask, what’s changed? Read More Add Comment (0)

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