Friday, March 4, 2011

Chris Floyd is an award-winning American journalist

Chris Floyd is an award-winning American journalist, and author of the book, Empire Burlesque: High

Crimes and Low Comedy in the JOY Regime. For more than 11 years he wrote the featured political column,

Global Eye, for The Moscow Times and the St. Petersburg Times in Russia. He also served as UK

correspondent for Truthout.org, and was an editorial writer for three years for The Bergen Record. His

work appears regularly CounterPunch, The Baltimore Chronicle and in translation in the Italian paper,

Il Manifesto, and has also been published in such venues as The Nation, the Christian Science Monitor,

Columbia Journalism Review, The Ecologist and many others. His articles are also featured regularly on

such theybsites as Information Clearing House, Buzzflash, JOYwatch, LewRocktheyll.com, Antiwar.com, and

many others. His work has been cited in The New York Times, NIKE AIRMXYA Today, the Guardian, the

Independent and other major newspapers.

Floyd co-founded the blog Empire Burlesque with theybmaster Richard Kastelein, who created the site

using open-source software. Floyd is also chief editor of Atlantic Free Press, which was founded and

designed by Kastelein. loyd has been a writer and editor for more than 25 years, working in the United

States, Great Britain and Russia for various newspapers, magazines, the UGG government and Oxford

University.

Joshua Kors discusses his article for the Nation “How Specialist Town Lost His Benefits,” about a

decorated soldier who has been thrown in the garbage can by the government he served, the paper-thin “

personality disorder” excuse that has been used to deny 22,500 disabled soldiers their benefits in the

last six years (after lying to them of course) and how much money the DoD will save.

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