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Atlantic Free Press, an online political website, was founded in September 2006 by Publisher Richard Kastelein

Richard Kastelein

Richard Kastelein, a Dutch Canadian dual citizen, the publisher and co-founder of Appmarket.tv, the first online portal, community, events and industry directory for the emerging industry around TV applications and widgets, Social TV, Multiplatform Strategy, Connected TV, and Transmedia. Currently...

of V.O.F. Expathos, in Groningen, The Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

and has published over 13,000 articles from over 300 progressive writers worldwide since its inception.

The publication's mission according to the website is "...to dig out nuggets of truth from the slag-heap of lies, ignorance and witless diversion that has buried public discourse today. AF 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."

One of the chief pipelines they claim to use to disseminate the work is Google News

Google News

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but they also syndicate to Lexis Nexis, Ebsco, and many other networks via a deal with Newstex. Atlantic Free Press is also available on Amazon Kindle

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This site has sister publications at the Free Press Group - Pacific Free Press , Chris Floyd - Empire Burlesque and Gorilla Radio which contains over 100 progressive podcasts by Pacific Free Press editor Chris Cook. Atlantic Free Press is a member of the Advertise Liberally Network at Blogads

Blogads

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Atlantic Free Press has a library of hundreds of photoshops created from 2006-2008. Atlantic Free Press photoshop art was used by the University of California Davis, for the Center For the Study of Human Rights in the Americas.

According to the authors' list, 20 percent of the contributors are educated to Ph.D. level.

Atlantic Free Press was also covered in Killer Startups in 2008.

Contributors

Atlantic Free Press Contributors include Ansar Abbasi

Ansar Abbasi

Ansar Abbasi al_Hashmi is an investigative editor for one of the leading newspapers from Pakistan, The News International.-Early life and education:...

, Chellis Glendinning

Chellis Glendinning

Chellis Glendinning is a European-American author of creative nonfiction, licensed psychotherapist, and political activist. She is noted as a pioneer in the field of ecopsychology, a proponent of land-based culture, and a critic of technological society, having worked with such contemporaries as...

, Chris Floyd, Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges

Christopher Lynn Hedges is an American journalist, author, and war correspondent, specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies...

, Craig Murray

Craig Murray

Craig John Murray is a British political activist, former ambassador to Uzbekistan and former Rector of the University of Dundee....

, Cynthia Ann McKinney, Dahr Jamail

Dahr Jamail

Dahr Jamail is an American journalist who is best known as one of the few unembedded journalists to report extensively from Iraq during the 2003 Iraq invasion. He spent eight months in Iraq, between 2003 to 2005, and presented his stories on his website, entitled Dahr Jamail's MidEast Dispatches....

, Danny Schechter

Danny Schechter

Danny Schechteris a television producer, independent filmmaker, blogger, and media critic who writes and lectures frequently about the media in the United States and worldwide. He specializes in investigative journalism and producing programming about the interfaces among human rights, journalism,...

, Dave Lindorff

Dave Lindorff

Dave Lindorff is an investigative reporter, a columnist for CounterPunch, and a contributor to Businessweek, The Nation, Extra! and Salon.com...

, David Rovics

David Rovics

David Rovics is an American indie singer/songwriter. His music concerns topical subjects such as the 2003 Iraq war, anti-globalization and social justice issues. Rovics has been an outspoken critic of former President George W...

, David Swanson

David Swanson

David L. Swanson is an American activist, blogger and author.-Education:Swanson obtained a Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Virginia in 1997.-Career:...

, Deepak Tripathi

Deepak Tripathi

Deepak Tripathi is a British historian, journalist and researcher with a particular reference to South and West Asia, terrorism and United States policy.- Life and career:Tripathi was born into a political family in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh, India...

, Dennis Jett

Dennis Jett

Dennis Coleman Jett is an American diplomat and academic. He served as the United States ambassador to Mozambique and Peru under the Clinton administration and is currently a professor of international relations at the School of International Affairs at the Pennsylvania State University...

, Ed Naha

Ed Naha

Ed Naha is an American science fiction and mystery writer and producer. He was born June 10, 1950 in the town of Linden, New Jersey. His first known publication was artwork that appeared in the first issue of Modern Monsters magazine, dated June 1966....

, Eric Margolis

Eric Margolis

Eric S. Margolis is an American-born journalist and writer. For 27 years, ending in 2010, he was a contributing editor to the Toronto Sun chain of newspapers, writing mainly about the Middle East, South Asia and Islam. He contributes to the Huffington Post and appears frequently on Canadian...

, Ezra Nawi

Ezra Nawi

Ezra Itzhak Nawi is an Israeli human rights activist and pacifist. He is particularly active among the Bedouin herders and farmers of the South Hebron Hills. He has been charged for numerous infractions of the law, convicted for a number of offences, and served several short stints in prison as a...

, Faisal Kutty

Faisal Kutty

Faisal Kutty is a Canadian lawyer, writer and human rights activist. He is a law professor and widely quoted commentator and public intellectual. He is the son of Islamic scholar Shaikh Ahmad Kutty.-Education:...

, George Galloway

George Galloway

George Galloway is a British politician, author, journalist and broadcaster who was a Member of Parliament from 1987 to 2010. He was formerly an MP for the Labour Party, first for Glasgow Hillhead and later for Glasgow Kelvin, before his expulsion from the party in October 2003, the same year...

, Gilad Atzmon

Gilad Atzmon

Gilad Atzmon is an Israeli-born British jazz saxophonist, novelist, political activist and writer.Atzmon's album Exile was BBC jazz album of the year in 2003. Playing over 100 dates a year, he has been called "surely the hardest-gigging man in British jazz." His albums, of which he has recorded...

, Harvey Wasserman

Harvey Wasserman

Harvey Franklin Wasserman is an American journalist, author, democracy activist, and advocate for renewable energy. He has been a strategist and organizer in the anti-nuclear movement in the United States for over 30 years. He has been a featured speaker on Today, Nightline, National Public Radio,...

, Helena Cobban

Helena Cobban

Helena Cobban is a British-American writer and researcher on international relations, with special interests in the Middle East, the international system, and transitional justice. In March 2010, she founded a new book-publishing company, Just World Publishing, LLC...

, James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler is an American author, social critic, public speaker, and blogger. He is best known for his books The Geography of Nowhere , a history of American suburbia and urban development, and the more recent The Long Emergency , where he argues that declining oil production is likely...

, James Petras

James Petras

James Petras is a retired Bartle Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York and adjunct professor at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada who has published prolifically on Latin American and Middle Eastern political issues.-Academic and...

, James Ridgeway

James Ridgeway

James Ridgeway is a prominent American investigative journalist.-Career history:Ridgeway began his career as a contributor to The New Republic, Ramparts, and The Wall Street Journal....

, Jason Leopold

Jason Leopold

Jason Leopold is an American investigative reporter. Leopold is known for his work at Truthout as a senior editor and reporter, a position he left after three years on February 19, 2008 to co-found the web-based political magazine, The Public Record, according to an email sent to his readers....

, Jerome Grossman

Jerome Grossman

Jerome Grossman is a political activist and commentator, particularly on the issues of weapons of mass destruction and nuclear weapons...

, Joe Bageant

Joe Bageant

Joe Bageant was an American author and columnist known for his book Deer Hunting With Jesus.Bageant was originally raised in Winchester, Virginia. He left Winchester and worked as a journalist and editor...

, Jonathan Cook

Jonathan Cook

Jonathan Cook is a British writer and a freelance journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, who writes about the Middle East, and more specifically, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.-Background:...

, Joshua Frank

Joshua Frank

Joshua Frank, born in Billings, Montana, is a journalist and progressive author living in the United States and covers current political and environmental topics...

, Juan Cole

Juan Cole

John Ricardo I. "Juan" Cole is an American scholar, public intellectual, and historian of the modern Middle East and South Asia. He is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. As a commentator on Middle Eastern affairs, he has appeared in print and on...

, Jules Siegel

Jules Siegel

Jules Siegel is a writer and graphic designer whose work has appeared over the years in Playboy, Best American Short Stories, Library of America's Writing Los Angeles, and many other publications...

, Kenneth Ring

Kenneth Ring

Kenneth Ring is Professor Emeritus of psychology at the University of Connecticut, and a researcher within the field of near-death studies...

, Kevin Pina

Kevin Pina

Kevin Pina is an American journalist and filmmaker. He is known for his reporting that focused on human rights abuses in Haiti following the ouster of Jean-Bertrand Aristide on February 29, 2004 and the installation of the interim government of Gerard Latortue and Boniface Alexandre in March 2004...

, Larry C. Johnson

Larry C. Johnson

Larry C. Johnson is a former analyst at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, who moved subsequently in 1989 to the U.S. Department of State, where he served four years as the deputy director for transportation security, antiterrorism assistance training, and special operations in the State...

, Linh Dinh

Linh Dinh

Linh Dinh is a Vietnamese-American poet, fiction writer, translator, and photographer. He was a 1993 Pew Fellow.-Biography:...

, Mahmood Mamdani

Mahmood Mamdani

Mahmood Mamdani is an academic, author and political commentator. He is a Professor and Director of the at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, and the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at Columbia University, New York. He grew up in Uganda and acquired his B.A from the University of...

, Marjorie Cohn

Marjorie Cohn

Marjorie Cohn is a professor of law at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, California, and a former president of the National Lawyers Guild.In 1978 Cohn received a job in the International Association of Democratic Lawyers...

, Mark Crispin Miller

Mark Crispin Miller

Mark Crispin Miller is professor of media studies at New York University, and the author of the book: Fooled Again, How the Right Stole the 2004 Elections. He is known for his writing on American media and for his activism on behalf of democratic media reform...

, Medea Benjamin

Medea Benjamin

Medea Benjamin is an American political activist, best known for co-founding Code Pink and, along with her husband, activist and author Kevin Danaher, fair trade advocacy group Global Exchange...

, Media Lens, Michael Haas, Michel Chossudovsky

Michel Chossudovsky

Michel Chossudovsky is a Canadian-based economist.He graduated from the University of Manchester, England, and obtained a PhD at the University of North Carolina, U. S...

, Mickey Z

Mickey Z

Michael Zezima is a writer, editor, blogger and novelist living in New York City. He writes a bimonthly column, "Mickey Z. Says", for VegNews magazine and he has also appeared on the C-SPAN network's Book TV program...

, Mike Ferner

Mike Ferner

Mike Ferner is a former Toledo, Ohio city council member, Vietnam era veteran, author, and peace activist. He is a member of the POCLAD collective. Toledo had the most active campaign in the country for municipal public power in the late 1980s and early '90s...

, Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is a London-born author and political scientist specialising in interdisciplinary security studies. He teaches International Relations at the School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, where he recently completed Doctoral research on...

, Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein is a Canadian author and social activist known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization.-Family:...

, Norman Solomon

Norman Solomon

Norman Solomon is an American journalist, media critic, antiwar activist, and current candidate for the United States House of Representatives. Solomon is a longtime associate of the media watch group Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting...

, Paul Craig Roberts

Paul Craig Roberts

Paul Craig Roberts is an American economist and a columnist for Creators Syndicate. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration earning fame as a co-founder of Reaganomics. He is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and...

, Paul Krassner

Paul Krassner

Paul Krassner is an author, journalist, stand-up comedian, and the founder, editor and a frequent contributor to the freethought magazine The Realist, first published in 1958...

, Paul William Roberts

Paul William Roberts

Paul William Roberts is a Canadian writer who lives in Toronto, Ontario.Born in Wales and educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he gained a second in English Language and Literature, Roberts moved permanently to Canada in 1980...

, R.J. Eskow, Richard A. Falk

Richard A. Falk

Richard Anderson Falk is an American professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, the author or co-author of 20 books and the editor or co-editor of another 20 books, speaker, activist on world affairs, and an appointee to two United Nations positions on the Palestinian...

, Richard C. Cook

Richard C. Cook

Richard C. Cook is a former U.S. federal government analyst, who was instrumental in exposing White House cover-ups regarding the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster of 1986. As a witness to the incident and a participant in the subsequent investigations, Cook provided key documents to The New York...

, Richard Kastelein

Richard Kastelein

, Robert Jensen

Robert Jensen

Robert William Jensen is a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin College of Communication. He joined the faculty in 1992 after completing his Ph.D. in media law and ethics in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota...

, Rodrigue Tremblay

Rodrigue Tremblay

Rodrigue Tremblay is a Canadian-born economist, humanist and political figure. He taught economics at the Université de Montréal. He specializes in macroeconomics, international trade and finance, and public finance. He is a prolific author of books in economics and politics.- Biography :Born in...

, Roland Michel Tremblay

Roland Michel Tremblay

Roland Michel Tremblay is a French Canadian author, poet, scriptwriter, development producer and science-fiction consultant. He has been living in London since 1995.- Biography :...

, Sean Penn

Sean Penn

Sean Justin Penn is an American actor, screenwriter and film director, also known for his political and social activism...

, Shahid Alam, Stan Goff

Stan Goff

Stan Goff is a writer, activist, and United States Army veteran having served from 1970 to 1996. He has been an anti-imperialist activist, feminist, socialist, and is now a Christian and a pacifist. He is the co-author of the weblog Feral Scholar, along with D. A...

, Stephen Soldz

Stephen Soldz

Stephen Soldz, Ph.D., born November 19, 1952, is a psychoanalyst, clinical psychologist, professor, and anti-war activist.He has received media attention as a vocal critic regarding allegations of the use of psychological torture by the U.S...

, Tom Engelhardt

Tom Engelhardt

Tom Engelhardt is the creator of the Nation Institute's tomdispatch.com, an online blog. He is also the co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of the 1998 book, The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation.Engelhardt graduated from Yale...

, Tony Karon

Tony Karon

Tony Karon is a South African-born journalist and former anti-Apartheid activist. He is currently a Senior Editor at TIME.com.He is originally from Cape Town, South Africa, and has been living in New York since 1993....

, Walter Brasch

Walter Brasch

Walter M. Brasch Ph.D., is an American social issues journalist and university professor of journalism. He is the author of a weekly syndicated newspaper column and the author of 17 books. He is an award winning former newspaper editor in California, Iowa, Indiana, and Ohio.-Philosophy of...

, Will Durst

Will Durst

Will Durst is an American political satirist; he considers himself a modern mix of Mort Sahl and Will Rogers....

, William Blum

William Blum

William Blum is an American author, historian, and critic of United States foreign policy. He studied accounting in college. Later he had a low-level computer-related position at the United States Department of State in the mid-1960s. Initially an anti-communist with dreams of becoming a foreign...

, and Yvonne Ridley

Yvonne Ridley

Yvonne Ridley is a British journalist, war correspondent and Respect Party activist best known for her capture by the Taliban and subsequent conversion to Islam after release, her outspoken opposition to Zionism, and her criticism of Western media portrayals of the War on Terror...

Traffic

Atlantic Free Press is in the Top 100,000 websites according to Quantcast with a ranking of 88,621.
The site has a Google Pagerank of 6 . Atlantic Free Press is in the top 190 thousand .com sites according to serversiders.com and over 2000 websites link to the site according to Google .

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Atlantic Free Press Tweets automatically using Twitterfeed and RSS to the Free Press Group Twitter

Twitter

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page as well as The Free Press Group Twitter stream.

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