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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.
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
Saturday, 04 October 2008 Terrorists Launch Economic 9/11 on the American People 92
Thursday, 02 October 2008 Somalia's "Rendition" Pipeline 71
Thursday, 02 October 2008 Bipartisan Terror War Intensifies in Somalia 78
Wednesday, 01 October 2008 First Shot of the Second American Revolution: The Battle for Wall Street 95
Saturday, 27 September 2008 Bush Allies Issue Fatwa on Gays and Lesbians 98
Thursday, 25 September 2008 Next Bad Deal Gone Down 127
Wednesday, 24 September 2008 Cheese for Everybody Else 146
Sunday, 21 September 2008 U.S. Backs Reign of Crime and Death in Somalia 250
Thursday, 18 September 2008 The Solid Core Behind the Financial Crisis 145
Sunday, 14 September 2008 Another Day, Another Gate of Hell 162
Thursday, 28 August 2008 Smirking Towards Washington 339
Tuesday, 26 August 2008 Caging the Dream 301
Monday, 18 August 2008 Permanent War and the American Way 267
Thursday, 14 August 2008 Moving Into Putin's Powderkeg 369
Monday, 11 August 2008 The Kremlin Surge 458
Saturday, 09 August 2008 Georgia: Cold War II Proxy Conflict Turns Hot 315
Thursday, 07 August 2008 The Eternal Now of Hiroshima 352
Thursday, 31 July 2008 Into the Afghan Abyss with Obama 324
Thursday, 17 July 2008 The Nangarhar Massacre 331
Thursday, 10 July 2008 Somalia's American-Made Road to Perdition 359
Thursday, 03 July 2008 Again Down History's Dark Roads 382
Sunday, 15 June 2008 A History of Brief Hope and Hype 543
Saturday, 07 June 2008 Shades of Significance: Breaking the Pale Monopoly 435
Thursday, 29 May 2008 The Self-Righteous Hit on Hillary 569
Thursday, 22 May 2008 The Shared Fate of a "Special Relationship" 401
Sunday, 18 May 2008 Snapshots of a World on the Edge 531
Thursday, 15 May 2008 Fomenting War in Lebanon 395
Saturday, 10 May 2008 Rules of Engagement: Shoot, Kill, Lie, Repeat 464
Friday, 09 May 2008 Fallujah Comes to Sadr City 632
Friday, 02 May 2008 Feeding Moloch 554
Thursday, 01 May 2008 Protection with Extreme Prejudice 560
Saturday, 26 April 2008 Glad Embrace: America and the Dictator 525
Wednesday, 23 April 2008 SEX and CARS and SEX and GUNS and Somalia 882
Sunday, 20 April 2008 Team Torture: Accounting for Bush and Co. 583
Thursday, 10 April 2008 In Defense of John Yoo 594
Saturday, 05 April 2008 A Radical Unremembered 587
Thursday, 27 March 2008 Ignorance Puts Iraq on the Cross 550
Wednesday, 19 March 2008 Iran in the Shadow of War 587
Thursday, 13 March 2008 More than Sex: Spitzer Meets the Real Governor 582
Saturday, 01 March 2008 Obama and the Delicate Balance of Reality 538
Thursday, 28 February 2008 Death and Chaos No Problem for Profit-Seekers in Iraq 542
Sunday, 24 February 2008 Empire and Burlesque 700
Sunday, 17 February 2008 Praise Judge Scalia, Who Gives Us Hope in This Dark Hour 606
Saturday, 16 February 2008 Return of the Empire Burlesque 569
Sunday, 10 February 2008 An Elite Exposed in an Exit Speech 597
Thursday, 07 February 2008 Criminal Intent: America's Air War over Baghdad 608
Saturday, 02 February 2008 Electing The Great American President 670
Saturday, 26 January 2008 Why We (Canadians) Fight in Afghanistan 646
Tuesday, 22 January 2008 Crime Without Arrest 579
Sunday, 20 January 2008 Front Lines of a War Crime 605
Monday, 14 January 2008 Number Crunching the Death Count 666
Saturday, 12 January 2008 Warrior on Drugs: War without Tears 915
Thursday, 10 January 2008 Shadows: Proliferation, Corruption and the Way of the World 853
Sunday, 06 January 2008 Haditha: No Justice for Iraq Atrocity 642
Thursday, 03 January 2008 War Parties United 640
Sunday, 30 December 2007 Not Alright, Jack: A State of the Union 628
Saturday, 29 December 2007 Al Gore and the Bali Ballyhoo 591
Sunday, 23 December 2007 Clarity and Truth Resurrected 479
Sunday, 16 December 2007 The Democrat's Progress: No Progress 583
Friday, 14 December 2007 Bailing out Again the Billionaires 594
Wednesday, 05 December 2007 An Expert Dissection of the NIE Report 756
Monday, 03 December 2007 The (other) War Party 972
Wednesday, 28 November 2007 Cluing in on the Racist Effete 1067
Sunday, 25 November 2007 Passing: Howard the Schmuck 1178
Thursday, 22 November 2007 Martin Amis and the Gentile Racists 1202
Monday, 12 November 2007 Defending the Constitutional Right to Torture 865
Wednesday, 07 November 2007 A Cowed Nation's Wilful Surrender 982
Saturday, 03 November 2007 Just Shoot Me 896
Wednesday, 31 October 2007 NRA Gun Cult Goes South of the Border 1291
Saturday, 20 October 2007 Rebuking the Truth, Mocking the Dead 843
Sunday, 14 October 2007 Torture World: Laying Back and Enjoying It 704
Thursday, 11 October 2007 Plan Opium: Afghanistan's Coming Fumigare 1006
Monday, 08 October 2007 Marching Into Nightmare with 'King David' General Petraeus 871
Thursday, 04 October 2007 Back From the Hack, and Once More Into the Breach 995
Thursday, 27 September 2007 Iraq: Plumbing the Depths 829
Wednesday, 19 September 2007 The Cash of Civilizations: Bombs and Baksheesh 809
Thursday, 13 September 2007 Britain: Clinging to the War Wagon 947
Wednesday, 12 September 2007 9/11: Swamp Gas 988
Saturday, 01 September 2007 First Tucker Came for the Fags 837
Wednesday, 22 August 2007 Catch-22 Redux 1043
Monday, 20 August 2007 Bushists Through the Looking-Glass on Iran 1090
Saturday, 18 August 2007 Torture State: The Returns of Tyranny 866
Friday, 17 August 2007 Silber: A Final Word on Iran 992
Wednesday, 15 August 2007 Rove Goes But the Malevolent Machine Rolls On 998
Monday, 13 August 2007 Panic Attack: Rove Packs Bags in Big-Time Bushist Bug-Out 1051
Thursday, 09 August 2007 FEMA Writ Large: Masters of Disaster 1204
Sunday, 05 August 2007 Further On Bush's Anti-Dissent Order 1192
Sunday, 05 August 2007 Money Power and the Minneapolis Bridge 1161
Tuesday, 31 July 2007 More on Bush's Anti-Dissent Order 1285
Thursday, 26 July 2007 Failed Surge: Death from Above 903
Saturday, 21 July 2007 Pervert's Parade: Executive Privilege 879
Wednesday, 18 July 2007 Bad, Bad, Vlad 1129
Friday, 13 July 2007 Iran: Senate Issues Unanimous War Cheque 1881
Monday, 09 July 2007 Hanging on to the Holocene Days 920
Monday, 09 July 2007 Bone Dance: A Late Epiphany at the New York Times 1000
Monday, 02 July 2007 Iran: Another Turn of the Propaganda Screw 2563
Sunday, 01 July 2007 Liberate with Extreme Prejudice 1284
Wednesday, 27 June 2007 Law Gone South 1612
Monday, 25 June 2007 Tragic Legacy 1124
Saturday, 16 June 2007 Pawns 1108
Wednesday, 13 June 2007 Somalia: "Kill Them All" 902
Monday, 11 June 2007 Sami al-Haj: The Last King of Cuba 1221
Sunday, 10 June 2007 Bandar Bush and the Bandergate Revelations 1258
Saturday, 02 June 2007 Lost Kitt Hitchens 1215
Sunday, 27 May 2007 The Lie of Lebanon Refugee Crisis 1090
Thursday, 24 May 2007 Iran: Surfin' the Surge 1049
Monday, 21 May 2007 Riding the Regime Change Trail 1082
Thursday, 17 May 2007 A Farewell to Falwell 973
Sunday, 13 May 2007 Britons Pay for Bush Crimes 1119
Tuesday, 08 May 2007 Hacking Dissent 1284
Wednesday, 02 May 2007 Shock and Yawn 1121
Friday, 27 April 2007 Somalia: Getting the Real Story 1564
Monday, 23 April 2007 Somalia: Filling the Streets with the Dead 1607
Saturday, 21 April 2007 Walling In Iraqis 1120
Sunday, 15 April 2007 No Refuge 1444
Thursday, 12 April 2007 Hello. Goodbye. Kurt Vonnegut Off to Tralfamador 1632
Monday, 09 April 2007 Somalia Terror War Spreading 1252
Friday, 06 April 2007 All the Perfume of Arabia... 1324
Thursday, 05 April 2007 Iraq: Again Claiming the Prize 1236
Wednesday, 04 April 2007 Slavery Now! 1241
Sunday, 01 April 2007 Black Hawk Up: Back to Club Mog 1389
Saturday, 31 March 2007 The 'Post Human' Society 1169
Monday, 26 March 2007 That 'Other' Regime Change 1134
Friday, 23 March 2007 Rendered Unto Caesar 1127
Friday, 09 March 2007 Oprah's Mysterious Hole on America 1331
Friday, 09 March 2007 A Tip o' the Hat 1360
Monday, 05 March 2007 A Free Press 1754
Saturday, 03 March 2007 Operation Enduring Idiocy 1504
Monday, 26 February 2007 Bush Faction Arming Al Qaeda 1134
Thursday, 22 February 2007 Riverbend: The Rape of Sabrine al-Janabi 1416
Sunday, 18 February 2007 Dirty War, Dirty Warriors 1117
Wednesday, 07 February 2007 Ersatz Apocalypto: Slaughter and Spin in the Battle for Najaf 997
Saturday, 03 February 2007 Bush Backers Offer Bribes to Undercut Global Warming Report 1129
Tuesday, 30 January 2007 Shooting Party: Big Bangs in Little Bushworld 1101
Monday, 29 January 2007 Untruth and Consequences: The Reality Behind Iran War Rhetoric 1220
Sunday, 28 January 2007 Friendly Fire? Another Look at Brazen Raid in Iraq 1121
Friday, 26 January 2007 Death and Dishonor: Bush's New Assassination Order 1283
Wednesday, 24 January 2007 Blogging a Dead Horse; or The Ballad of Luther Baldwin 1340
Friday, 19 January 2007 Burnt Offering: 3,000 Sacrifices to Greed and Folly 1360
Thursday, 18 January 2007 Court Circular: Richard Cohen and the Apologists of Power 1447
Tuesday, 16 January 2007 Iran and Reality: A Flickering Light on the Edge of Disaster 1535
Sunday, 14 January 2007 Get Your War On: Bush Plays Casus Belli Card Against Iran 1483
Saturday, 13 January 2007 Marching to Persia: First Blows Struck in Bush's War on Iran 1288
Wednesday, 10 January 2007 Mondo Apocalypto: Somalis Sacrificed for Bush's Speech 1331
Wednesday, 10 January 2007 Blood Meridian: Bush's High Crimes of Torture and War 1616
Tuesday, 09 January 2007 US Attacks Somalia, Taking Sides With Former Enemy Warlords 1249
Tuesday, 09 January 2007 Claiming the Prize: Bush Surge Aimed at Securing Iraqi Oil 1229
Thursday, 04 January 2007 Thug Bones in Bushland and Babylon 1171
Monday, 01 January 2007 CYA for the USA: The Coverup of Complicity Continues 1388
Sunday, 31 December 2006 Hang Times: A Whitewash of White House Complicity 1836
Sunday, 31 December 2006 Illegal Procedure: The Quick and the Dead 1115
Sunday, 31 December 2006 Rope Trick: Burying America's Collusion With Saddam 1191
Wednesday, 27 December 2006 The Enduring Legacy of Gerald R. Ford 1115
Monday, 25 December 2006 Escalation and Expansion: Bush's "Great Leap Forward" Into Hell 1117
Saturday, 23 December 2006 Last Bad Deal Gone Down: War Profits Trump the Rule of Law 1112
Friday, 22 December 2006 A Chronicle of Escalation Foretold: The Red Crescent Assault 1105
Wednesday, 20 December 2006 Let It Come Down: Forcing the Constitutional Crisis of Liberty 1250
Monday, 18 December 2006 Annals of the Damned Human Race: Liberating Afghans, Body and Soul 1287
Saturday, 16 December 2006 Tears of Rage, Tears of Grief: Mass Death Returns to Ishaqi 1265
Wednesday, 13 December 2006 Presidential Tyranny Untamed by Election Defeat 1211
Tuesday, 12 December 2006 America's Shame: Brought Low By a Gang of Cretins 1526
Thursday, 07 December 2006 Meese of Arabia and the Baker Group's Grab for Black Gold 1372
Wednesday, 06 December 2006 Voices Carry: Metaphysics as a Guide to Murder 1231
Monday, 04 December 2006 Pale Fire and London Fog: Illuminating Outliers in the Death of Alexander Litvinenko 1348
Friday, 01 December 2006 Pale Fire and London Fog: Illuminating Outliers in the Death of Alexander Litvinenko 1425
Wednesday, 29 November 2006 Hideous Kinky: The Genocidal Fury of Thomas Friedman 1250
Monday, 27 November 2006 "Our War Against Canada": Alex Cox and the Long March of American Militarism 1393
Monday, 27 November 2006 Women and Children First: The Lessons of Iraq 1275
Thursday, 23 November 2006 Giving Thanks in the Shadow of the Terror War 1325
Tuesday, 21 November 2006 Who Killed RFK? New BBC Documentary Points to CIA 1389
Monday, 20 November 2006 Snow Blind: American-Backed Murder in Colombia 1290
Friday, 17 November 2006 Family Feud: Little Bush Hits Back at Daddy 1265
Friday, 17 November 2006 Freshman Class War: New Senator Sends Message on Economic Injustice 1261
Thursday, 16 November 2006 Bush's "New" Iraq Strategy Revealed: More Troops, More War 1342
Thursday, 16 November 2006 Sympathetic Labour Pains: Tony Blair's Post-Election Panic Attack 1201
Wednesday, 15 November 2006 No Exit: The Baker Commission and the Trap of Reality 1244
Friday, 10 November 2006 A Beacon of Hope and Unity in the Middle East 1187
Thursday, 09 November 2006 The Deeper Reality Behind Rumsfeld's Resignation 1342
Wednesday, 08 November 2006 Election 2006: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me 1279
Tuesday, 07 November 2006 Armagideon Time: Bush's Nuclear Folly and the National Security Lie 1169
Tuesday, 07 November 2006 Sandinista! How Will Bush Make Nicaragua Pay for its Disobedience? 1040
Monday, 06 November 2006 Behind Bush's Nuclear Gift to Terrorism 1407
Monday, 06 November 2006 Paper Trail:Turning the Corner With a Timely Verdict 1234
Friday, 03 November 2006 Endgame: The Lights Are Going Out All Over Baghdad 1224
Wednesday, 01 November 2006 Postcards of the Hanging: Race and Sex in Tennessee 1421
Tuesday, 31 October 2006 The "War for Oil" Comes Home 1306
Friday, 27 October 2006 Catapulting the Propaganda with the Washington Post 1323
Wednesday, 25 October 2006 Blood and Gravy II: The Jackal's Feast Goes On 1705
Tuesday, 24 October 2006 Brutality and Reality: The American-Israeli Arrangement 1390
Wednesday, 18 October 2006 Sentimental Education: Academia Signs Up for Tracking Down Dissent 1446
Tuesday, 17 October 2006 Why Bush Smiles: Victory is at Hand in Iraq 1305
Thursday, 12 October 2006 Text Sex and Context: Foleygate in Perspective 1687
Tuesday, 10 October 2006 Red October: Killing the Truth in Moscow 1747
Tuesday, 10 October 2006 Swing Blades: Don Rumsfeld Bats Both Ways 1195
Monday, 02 October 2006 War in Heaven: Woodward's Book and the Establishment Insurgency 1381
Saturday, 30 September 2006 Thunder on the Mountain: The Murderers of Democracy 1523
Thursday, 21 September 2006 Immaculate Conception: A Squirt in the White House 1590