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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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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
Saturday, 04 October 2008Terrorists Launch Economic 9/11 on the American People92
Thursday, 02 October 2008Somalia's "Rendition" Pipeline71
Thursday, 02 October 2008Bipartisan Terror War Intensifies in Somalia78
Wednesday, 01 October 2008First Shot of the Second American Revolution: The Battle for Wall Street95
Saturday, 27 September 2008Bush Allies Issue Fatwa on Gays and Lesbians98
Thursday, 25 September 2008Next Bad Deal Gone Down127
Wednesday, 24 September 2008Cheese for Everybody Else146
Sunday, 21 September 2008U.S. Backs Reign of Crime and Death in Somalia250
Thursday, 18 September 2008The Solid Core Behind the Financial Crisis145
Sunday, 14 September 2008Another Day, Another Gate of Hell162
Thursday, 28 August 2008Smirking Towards Washington339
Tuesday, 26 August 2008Caging the Dream301
Monday, 18 August 2008Permanent War and the American Way267
Thursday, 14 August 2008Moving Into Putin's Powderkeg369
Monday, 11 August 2008The Kremlin Surge458
Saturday, 09 August 2008Georgia: Cold War II Proxy Conflict Turns Hot315
Thursday, 07 August 2008The Eternal Now of Hiroshima352
Thursday, 31 July 2008Into the Afghan Abyss with Obama324
Thursday, 17 July 2008The Nangarhar Massacre331
Thursday, 10 July 2008Somalia's American-Made Road to Perdition359
Thursday, 03 July 2008Again Down History's Dark Roads382
Sunday, 15 June 2008A History of Brief Hope and Hype543
Saturday, 07 June 2008Shades of Significance: Breaking the Pale Monopoly435
Thursday, 29 May 2008The Self-Righteous Hit on Hillary569
Thursday, 22 May 2008The Shared Fate of a "Special Relationship"401
Sunday, 18 May 2008Snapshots of a World on the Edge531
Thursday, 15 May 2008Fomenting War in Lebanon395
Saturday, 10 May 2008Rules of Engagement: Shoot, Kill, Lie, Repeat464
Friday, 09 May 2008Fallujah Comes to Sadr City632
Friday, 02 May 2008Feeding Moloch554
Thursday, 01 May 2008Protection with Extreme Prejudice560
Saturday, 26 April 2008Glad Embrace: America and the Dictator525
Wednesday, 23 April 2008SEX and CARS and SEX and GUNS and Somalia882
Sunday, 20 April 2008Team Torture: Accounting for Bush and Co.583
Thursday, 10 April 2008In Defense of John Yoo594
Saturday, 05 April 2008A Radical Unremembered587
Thursday, 27 March 2008Ignorance Puts Iraq on the Cross550
Wednesday, 19 March 2008Iran in the Shadow of War587
Thursday, 13 March 2008More than Sex: Spitzer Meets the Real Governor582
Saturday, 01 March 2008Obama and the Delicate Balance of Reality538
Thursday, 28 February 2008Death and Chaos No Problem for Profit-Seekers in Iraq542
Sunday, 24 February 2008Empire and Burlesque700
Sunday, 17 February 2008Praise Judge Scalia, Who Gives Us Hope in This Dark Hour606
Saturday, 16 February 2008Return of the Empire Burlesque569
Sunday, 10 February 2008An Elite Exposed in an Exit Speech597
Thursday, 07 February 2008Criminal Intent: America's Air War over Baghdad608
Saturday, 02 February 2008Electing The Great American President670
Saturday, 26 January 2008Why We (Canadians) Fight in Afghanistan646
Tuesday, 22 January 2008Crime Without Arrest579
Sunday, 20 January 2008Front Lines of a War Crime605
Monday, 14 January 2008Number Crunching the Death Count666
Saturday, 12 January 2008Warrior on Drugs: War without Tears915
Thursday, 10 January 2008Shadows: Proliferation, Corruption and the Way of the World853
Sunday, 06 January 2008Haditha: No Justice for Iraq Atrocity642
Thursday, 03 January 2008War Parties United640
Sunday, 30 December 2007Not Alright, Jack: A State of the Union628
Saturday, 29 December 2007Al Gore and the Bali Ballyhoo591
Sunday, 23 December 2007Clarity and Truth Resurrected479
Sunday, 16 December 2007The Democrat's Progress: No Progress583
Friday, 14 December 2007Bailing out Again the Billionaires594
Wednesday, 05 December 2007An Expert Dissection of the NIE Report756
Monday, 03 December 2007The (other) War Party972
Wednesday, 28 November 2007Cluing in on the Racist Effete1067
Sunday, 25 November 2007Passing: Howard the Schmuck1178
Thursday, 22 November 2007Martin Amis and the Gentile Racists1202
Monday, 12 November 2007Defending the Constitutional Right to Torture865
Wednesday, 07 November 2007A Cowed Nation's Wilful Surrender982
Saturday, 03 November 2007Just Shoot Me896
Wednesday, 31 October 2007NRA Gun Cult Goes South of the Border1291
Saturday, 20 October 2007Rebuking the Truth, Mocking the Dead843
Sunday, 14 October 2007Torture World: Laying Back and Enjoying It704
Thursday, 11 October 2007Plan Opium: Afghanistan's Coming Fumigare1006
Monday, 08 October 2007Marching Into Nightmare with 'King David' General Petraeus871
Thursday, 04 October 2007 Back From the Hack, and Once More Into the Breach995
Thursday, 27 September 2007Iraq: Plumbing the Depths829
Wednesday, 19 September 2007The Cash of Civilizations: Bombs and Baksheesh809
Thursday, 13 September 2007Britain: Clinging to the War Wagon947
Wednesday, 12 September 20079/11: Swamp Gas988
Saturday, 01 September 2007First Tucker Came for the Fags837
Wednesday, 22 August 2007Catch-22 Redux1043
Monday, 20 August 2007Bushists Through the Looking-Glass on Iran1090
Saturday, 18 August 2007Torture State: The Returns of Tyranny866
Friday, 17 August 2007Silber: A Final Word on Iran992
Wednesday, 15 August 2007Rove Goes But the Malevolent Machine Rolls On998
Monday, 13 August 2007Panic Attack: Rove Packs Bags in Big-Time Bushist Bug-Out1051
Thursday, 09 August 2007FEMA Writ Large: Masters of Disaster1204
Sunday, 05 August 2007Further On Bush's Anti-Dissent Order1192
Sunday, 05 August 2007Money Power and the Minneapolis Bridge1161
Tuesday, 31 July 2007More on Bush's Anti-Dissent Order1285
Thursday, 26 July 2007Failed Surge: Death from Above903
Saturday, 21 July 2007Pervert's Parade: Executive Privilege879
Wednesday, 18 July 2007Bad, Bad, Vlad1129
Friday, 13 July 2007Iran: Senate Issues Unanimous War Cheque1881
Monday, 09 July 2007Hanging on to the Holocene Days920
Monday, 09 July 2007Bone Dance: A Late Epiphany at the New York Times1000
Monday, 02 July 2007Iran: Another Turn of the Propaganda Screw2563
Sunday, 01 July 2007Liberate with Extreme Prejudice1284
Wednesday, 27 June 2007Law Gone South1612
Monday, 25 June 2007Tragic Legacy1124
Saturday, 16 June 2007Pawns1108
Wednesday, 13 June 2007Somalia: "Kill Them All"902
Monday, 11 June 2007Sami al-Haj: The Last King of Cuba1221
Sunday, 10 June 2007Bandar Bush and the Bandergate Revelations1258
Saturday, 02 June 2007Lost Kitt Hitchens1215
Sunday, 27 May 2007The Lie of Lebanon Refugee Crisis1090
Thursday, 24 May 2007Iran: Surfin' the Surge1049
Monday, 21 May 2007Riding the Regime Change Trail1082
Thursday, 17 May 2007A Farewell to Falwell973
Sunday, 13 May 2007Britons Pay for Bush Crimes1119
Tuesday, 08 May 2007Hacking Dissent1284
Wednesday, 02 May 2007Shock and Yawn1121
Friday, 27 April 2007Somalia: Getting the Real Story1564
Monday, 23 April 2007Somalia: Filling the Streets with the Dead1607
Saturday, 21 April 2007Walling In Iraqis1120
Sunday, 15 April 2007No Refuge1444
Thursday, 12 April 2007Hello. Goodbye. Kurt Vonnegut Off to Tralfamador1632
Monday, 09 April 2007Somalia Terror War Spreading1252
Friday, 06 April 2007All the Perfume of Arabia...1324
Thursday, 05 April 2007Iraq: Again Claiming the Prize1236
Wednesday, 04 April 2007Slavery Now!1241
Sunday, 01 April 2007Black Hawk Up: Back to Club Mog1389
Saturday, 31 March 2007The 'Post Human' Society1169
Monday, 26 March 2007That 'Other' Regime Change1134
Friday, 23 March 2007Rendered Unto Caesar1127
Friday, 09 March 2007Oprah's Mysterious Hole on America1331
Friday, 09 March 2007A Tip o' the Hat1360
Monday, 05 March 2007A Free Press1754
Saturday, 03 March 2007Operation Enduring Idiocy1504
Monday, 26 February 2007Bush Faction Arming Al Qaeda1134
Thursday, 22 February 2007Riverbend: The Rape of Sabrine al-Janabi1416
Sunday, 18 February 2007Dirty War, Dirty Warriors1117
Wednesday, 07 February 2007Ersatz Apocalypto: Slaughter and Spin in the Battle for Najaf997
Saturday, 03 February 2007Bush Backers Offer Bribes to Undercut Global Warming Report1129
Tuesday, 30 January 2007Shooting Party: Big Bangs in Little Bushworld1101
Monday, 29 January 2007Untruth and Consequences: The Reality Behind Iran War Rhetoric1220
Sunday, 28 January 2007Friendly Fire? Another Look at Brazen Raid in Iraq1121
Friday, 26 January 2007Death and Dishonor: Bush's New Assassination Order1283
Wednesday, 24 January 2007Blogging a Dead Horse; or The Ballad of Luther Baldwin1340
Friday, 19 January 2007Burnt Offering: 3,000 Sacrifices to Greed and Folly1360
Thursday, 18 January 2007Court Circular: Richard Cohen and the Apologists of Power1447
Tuesday, 16 January 2007Iran and Reality: A Flickering Light on the Edge of Disaster1535
Sunday, 14 January 2007Get Your War On: Bush Plays Casus Belli Card Against Iran1483
Saturday, 13 January 2007Marching to Persia: First Blows Struck in Bush's War on Iran1288
Wednesday, 10 January 2007Mondo Apocalypto: Somalis Sacrificed for Bush's Speech1331
Wednesday, 10 January 2007Blood Meridian: Bush's High Crimes of Torture and War1616
Tuesday, 09 January 2007US Attacks Somalia, Taking Sides With Former Enemy Warlords1249
Tuesday, 09 January 2007Claiming the Prize: Bush Surge Aimed at Securing Iraqi Oil1229
Thursday, 04 January 2007Thug Bones in Bushland and Babylon1171
Monday, 01 January 2007CYA for the USA: The Coverup of Complicity Continues1388
Sunday, 31 December 2006Hang Times: A Whitewash of White House Complicity1836
Sunday, 31 December 2006 Illegal Procedure: The Quick and the Dead1115
Sunday, 31 December 2006Rope Trick: Burying America's Collusion With Saddam1191
Wednesday, 27 December 2006The Enduring Legacy of Gerald R. Ford1115
Monday, 25 December 2006Escalation and Expansion: Bush's "Great Leap Forward" Into Hell1117
Saturday, 23 December 2006Last Bad Deal Gone Down: War Profits Trump the Rule of Law1112
Friday, 22 December 2006A Chronicle of Escalation Foretold: The Red Crescent Assault1105
Wednesday, 20 December 2006Let It Come Down: Forcing the Constitutional Crisis of Liberty1250
Monday, 18 December 2006Annals of the Damned Human Race: Liberating Afghans, Body and Soul1287
Saturday, 16 December 2006Tears of Rage, Tears of Grief: Mass Death Returns to Ishaqi1265
Wednesday, 13 December 2006Presidential Tyranny Untamed by Election Defeat1211
Tuesday, 12 December 2006America's Shame: Brought Low By a Gang of Cretins1526
Thursday, 07 December 2006Meese of Arabia and the Baker Group's Grab for Black Gold1372
Wednesday, 06 December 2006Voices Carry: Metaphysics as a Guide to Murder1231
Monday, 04 December 2006 Pale Fire and London Fog: Illuminating Outliers in the Death of Alexander Litvinenko1348
Friday, 01 December 2006Pale Fire and London Fog: Illuminating Outliers in the Death of Alexander Litvinenko1425
Wednesday, 29 November 2006Hideous Kinky: The Genocidal Fury of Thomas Friedman1250
Monday, 27 November 2006"Our War Against Canada": Alex Cox and the Long March of American Militarism1393
Monday, 27 November 2006Women and Children First: The Lessons of Iraq1275
Thursday, 23 November 2006Giving Thanks in the Shadow of the Terror War1325
Tuesday, 21 November 2006 Who Killed RFK? New BBC Documentary Points to CIA1389
Monday, 20 November 2006Snow Blind: American-Backed Murder in Colombia1290
Friday, 17 November 2006Family Feud: Little Bush Hits Back at Daddy1265
Friday, 17 November 2006Freshman Class War: New Senator Sends Message on Economic Injustice1261
Thursday, 16 November 2006 Bush's "New" Iraq Strategy Revealed: More Troops, More War1342
Thursday, 16 November 2006Sympathetic Labour Pains: Tony Blair's Post-Election Panic Attack1201
Wednesday, 15 November 2006No Exit: The Baker Commission and the Trap of Reality1244
Friday, 10 November 2006A Beacon of Hope and Unity in the Middle East1187
Thursday, 09 November 2006The Deeper Reality Behind Rumsfeld's Resignation1342
Wednesday, 08 November 2006Election 2006: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me1279
Tuesday, 07 November 2006Armagideon Time: Bush's Nuclear Folly and the National Security Lie1169
Tuesday, 07 November 2006Sandinista! How Will Bush Make Nicaragua Pay for its Disobedience?1040
Monday, 06 November 2006Behind Bush's Nuclear Gift to Terrorism1407
Monday, 06 November 2006Paper Trail:Turning the Corner With a Timely Verdict1234
Friday, 03 November 2006Endgame: The Lights Are Going Out All Over Baghdad1224
Wednesday, 01 November 2006Postcards of the Hanging: Race and Sex in Tennessee1421
Tuesday, 31 October 2006The "War for Oil" Comes Home1306
Friday, 27 October 2006Catapulting the Propaganda with the Washington Post1323
Wednesday, 25 October 2006Blood and Gravy II: The Jackal's Feast Goes On1705
Tuesday, 24 October 2006Brutality and Reality: The American-Israeli Arrangement1390
Wednesday, 18 October 2006Sentimental Education: Academia Signs Up for Tracking Down Dissent1446
Tuesday, 17 October 2006Why Bush Smiles: Victory is at Hand in Iraq1305
Thursday, 12 October 2006Text Sex and Context: Foleygate in Perspective1687
Tuesday, 10 October 2006Red October: Killing the Truth in Moscow1747
Tuesday, 10 October 2006Swing Blades: Don Rumsfeld Bats Both Ways1195
Monday, 02 October 2006War in Heaven: Woodward's Book and the Establishment Insurgency1381
Saturday, 30 September 2006Thunder on the Mountain: The Murderers of Democracy1523
Thursday, 21 September 2006Immaculate Conception: A Squirt in the White House1590
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