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 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.
This week; Jon Elmer on the dramatic escape from Gaza, and the subsequent re-imposition of the wall breached; Justin Podur on Canada's theatrical border security; Janine Bandcroft brings us up to speed with all that's good to do in and around Victoria in the coming week.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific
Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at:
http://cfuv.uvic.ca . He also serves as a contributing editor to the
web news site, www.pacificfreepress.com . And, you can check out the GR
blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com
Brick by brick, rivet by rivet, spool by endless spool of razor and
barbed wire, the wall enclosing the Palestinian detainees of Gulag Gaza
is being again sealed against a repeat of last month's dramatic prison
break into Egypt.
The Canadian government, along with its allies
America and those other remnants of the "democratic" Western world are
applauding the government of Egyptian dictator Hosne Mubarek for
refusing to allow the starved and desperate passage out of Palestine
that the hungry would replenish life's necessities, encouraging Mubarek
reinforce further the siege organized by the Israeli government.
That
this deliberate policy amounts to collective punishment against a
people long-brutalized by the self-avowed ethnic puritans of the Jewish
State seems of little matter to the men of letters ruling from Ottawa,
Washington and Number 10 Downing Street. That these actions, comprising
complicity in genocide, are not mentioned in the corporate and State
news organs of the conspirators in this great sin is little wonder;
that the knowing citizens of those nations aiding this abomination
against humanity are not in the streets demanding "their"
representatives in government cease and desist is more difficult to
fathom.
Jon Elmer is a Vancouver-based freelance writer and
photojournalist who has lived in and reported from Occupied Palestine.
He is the creator of the news website, From Occupied Palestine.org, and
his home site, Jon Elmer.ca, each providing copious evidence of Israeli
State criminality. Jon Elmer and what more can be done for Palestine in
the first half.
And; Canada's border too is the subject of
intense scrutiny and demands for reinforcement against the evils of the
world, ever lurking in the shadow of the 49th parallel, waiting to
descend howling upon the heads of the good citizenry. But in Canada's
case, the threat is more fiction than reality.
More precisely, Canada's
border woes are the creation of State television in the form of the
Canadian Broadcast Corporation's new "instant hit" drama 'The Border,'
wherein suspiciously American looking plot lines play out the need for
State vigilance, violence, and the granting of ever-expanding powers to
police and security actors that we cowering Canadians be safe to go
about our cross-border shopping.
Justin Podur is a Toronto-based
writer, editor, and long-time contributor to ZNet, one of the original
alternative internet media organizations dedicated to countering
corporate and State news disinformation. He has reported from Haiti,
South and Central America, and the Middle East. Justin Podur is
published at numerous internet sites and in progressive print
publications, and is a founding member of Peublos en Camino collective.
His home site is Killingtrain.com. Justin Podur and blurring the lines
of fact and fiction on the border in the second half.
And;
Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour to bring us up
to speed with all that's good to do in and around Victoria in the
coming week. but first, Jon Elmer and rearing up again the Palestine
wall.
G-Radio is dedicated to social justice, the environment, community, and providing a forum for people and issues not covered in the corporate media.
Some past guests include: M. Junaid Alam, M. Shahid Alam, Joel Bakan, Maude Barlow, David Barsamian, Rhoda Berenson, William Blum, Luciana Bohne, William Bowles, Vincent Bugliosi, Helen Caldicott, Noam Chomsky, Michel Chossudovsky, Diane Christian, Juan Cole, David Cromwell, Murray Dobbin, Jon Elmer, Reese Erlich, Anthony Fenton, Jim Fetzer, Laura Flanders, Chris Floyd, Connie Fogal, Glen Ford, Susan George, Stan Goff, Amy Goodman, Robert Greenwald, Denis Halliday, Chris Hedges, Sander Hicks, Julia Butterfly Hill, Scott Horton, Robert Jensen, Dahr Jamail, Chalmers Johnson, Diana Johnstone, Kathy Kelly, Naomi Klein, Anthony Lappe, Frances Moore Lappe, Jason Leopold, Jeff Leys, Dave Lindorff, Jim Lobe, Jennifer Loewenstein, Wayne Madsen, Stephen Marshall, Linda McQuaig, George Monbiot, Loretta Napoleoni, John Nichols, Kurt Nimmo, David Orchard, Greg Palast, Mike Palecek, Michael Parenti, Robert Parry, John Pilger, Kevin Pina, William Rivers Pitt, Justin Podur, Jack Random, Sheldon Rampton, Paul Craig Roberts, David Robb, Paul de Rooij, John Ross, Danny Schechter, Vandana Shiva, Norman Solomon, Starhawk, Grant Wakefield, Paul Watson, Bernard Weiner, Mickey Z., and many others.
Pacific Free Press is a new sister site to Atlantic Free Press (already a Google News Source). Like AFP, PFP is not a simple news aggregator. All of our writers have been contacted, have joined the site and said they will contribute their editorials that appear on their own blogs or are syndicated elsewhere - and - some have stated they will provide original work that will be initially exclusive to Pacific Free Press. The sheer amount of writers working with Atlantic Free Press has brought us to the point where we felt we need to divide some of the material by starting a new site.
Using our Open Source content management system (CMS), Joomla, our writers use a WYSIWYG editor to contribute their submissions and images and we publish upon review - it's cutting edge participatory journalism.
We have set up an Author's Guide which is used for training the writers on Joomla, podcasting (yes we podcast), and other emerging methods to communicate their media.
We don't comb the net, hunting down articles, that we would 'like' to appear in our publication and have been working for over a year to put together a core team of people to work with us.
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. We have over a dozen PHD's on our writer's list - from all parts of the globe.
Key writers who are onboard and will provide original work include:
Some of our other writers include Andrew Bard Schmookler, Anwaar Hussain, Chris Floyd, Craig Murray, Dave Lindorff, David Swanson, Doug Mitchell, Frank Pitz, Ingmar Lee, James Kunstler, James Petras, Jason Miller, Jennifer Matsui, Jeremy R. Hammond, Joel S. Hirschhorn, Joshua Frank, Katherine Hughes, Kevin Harris, Larry C. Johnson, Linda Milazzo, Manuel Valenzuela, Mark Crispin Miller, Mel Seesholtz, Michael Wills, Mickey Z, Mike Whitney, Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Nicola Nasser, Norman Solomon, Paul J. Balles, Paul Lehto, Paul William Roberts, Phil Rockstroh, Ramzy Baroud, Richard Kastelein, Richard Marsden, Robert Jensen, Rod Amis, Rosemarie Jackowski, S. Artesian, Sam Welch, Seth Sandronsky, Shahid Alam, Shepherd Bliss, Stephen Lendman, Tom Chartier, Tom Engelhardt, Walter Brasch, Weldon Berger, Will Durst, William Bowles, William A. Cook, William Blum, Winter Patriot and many others found here.
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Our strategy for Pacificfreepress.com is to provide pennings from dissident and alternative writers (Libertarian and Left) whose work does not appear in Google News due to the lack of solid, reputable sources for work of this kind. Google News is a rather fair and level playing field - with mathematical algorithms as it's objective editors rather then inherently subjective humans. Hence the importance of us being part of the roster at Google News.
We feel that creating another vehicle for the West Coast and East Asia Region (as opposed to Atlantic Free Press) will allow more direction towards producing works from a variety of Asian and Pacific West Coast voices which would be a great resource for Google News and an outlet for alternative and dissident journalists that don't normally get mainstream media coverage.
Best
Richard Kastelein
V.O.F. Expathos, The Netherlands
www.pacificfreepress.com
www.atlanticfreepress.com
www.chris-floyd.com
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This week; Jon Elmer on the dramatic escape from Gaza, and the subsequent re-imposition of the wall breached; Justin Podur on Canada's theatrical border security; Janine Bandcroft brings us up to speed with all that's good to do in and around Victoria in the coming week.
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