Atlantic Free Press, an online political website, was founded in September 2006 by Publisher Richard Kastelein of V.O.F. Expathos, in

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and published over 13,000 articles from over 250 progressive writers worldwide until it closed in October 2011. The publication's website described its mission was "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 claimed to use to disseminate the work was

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but they also syndicated to

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, Ebsco, and other networks via a deal with Newstex. 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. Atlantic Free Press has a library of hundreds of photoshops created from 2006 to 2008. Atlantic Free Press photoshop art was used by the

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, 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 included

Ansar Abbasi Ansar Abbasi () is a Pakistani right-wing commentator and columnist associated with ''The News International''. Investigative articles Chief Justice Choudhry Abbasi was among the first to bring forth allegations against Chief Justice Iftikhar C ...

, Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Shahid Alam,

Gilad Atzmon Gilad Atzmon (, ; born 9 June 1963) is an Israeli-born British saxophonist, novelist, political activist, and writer. As a musician, he is best known as a saxophonist and bandleader. His instruments include the saxophone, accordion, clarinet ...

, Joe Bageant, Medea Benjamin,

William Blum William Henry Blum (; March 6, 1933 – December 9, 2018) was an American author and journalist and a critic of United States foreign policy. Early life Blum was born at Beth Moses Hospital (now part of Maimonides Medical Center) in Brooklyn, ...

, Walter Brasch, Helena Cobban,

Marjorie Cohn Marjorie Cohn (born November 1, 1948) is an American legal scholar working as a professor of law at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego. She is also a former president of the National Lawyers Guild.

Juan Cole John Ricardo Irfan "Juan" Cole (born October 23, 1952) is an American academic and commentator on the modern Middle East and South Asia. Dead link; no archive located. He is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University ...

Linh Dinh Linh Dinh (Vietnamese: , born 1963, Saigon, South Vietnam) is a Vietnamese-American poet, fiction writer, translator, and photographer. He posts travel essays and social commentary regularly in his newsletter ''Postcards from the End.'' He was a ...

Will Durst Will Durst (born March 18, 1952) is an American political satirist. He has been likened to Mort Sahl and Will Rogers. Early life Durst was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He went to 14 different schools before graduating from Waukesha South ...

, Tom Engelhardt, Richard A. Falk, Mike Ferner,

George Galloway George Galloway (born 16 August 1954) is a British politician, broadcaster, and writer. He has been leader of the Workers Party of Britain since he founded it in 2019, and is a former leader of the Respect Party. Until 2003, he was a member ...

Chellis Glendinning Chellis Glendinning (born 1947) is an author and activist. She has been called a pioneer in the concept of ecopsychology—the belief that promoting environmentalism is healthy. She is a social-change activist with an emphasis on feminism, biore ...

, Stan Goff, Jerome Grossman, Michael Haas,

Dahr Jamail Dahr Jamail (born 1968) is an American journalist who was one of the few Embedded journalist, unembedded journalists to report extensively from Iraq during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He spent eight months in Iraq, between 2003 and 2005, and prese ...

Robert Jensen Robert William Jensen (born July 14, 1958) is a former professor of journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. From 1992 to 2018 he taught graduate and undergraduate courses in media law, ethics, and politics. He has focused much of his ...

, Dennis Jett, Larry C. Johnson,

Tony Karon Tony Karon is a South African-born journalist and former anti-apartheid activist. He became a senior online executive producer for Al Jazeera America in 2013. He was formerly the Senior Editor at Time.com. Karon grew up Jewish in South Africa an ...

Richard Kastelein

Naomi Klein Naomi Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses; support of ecofeminism, organized labour, and criticism of corporate globalization, fascism and Criticism of capitalism, ca ...

Paul Krassner Paul Krassner (April 9, 1932 – July 21, 2019) was an American writer and satirist. He was the founder, editor, and a frequent contributor to the freethought magazine ''The Realist'', first published in 1958. Krassner became a key figure in t ...

James Howard Kunstler James Howard Kunstler is an American writer, social critic, public speaker, and blogger known for his analysis of urban development, suburbanization, and energy issues. Born in New York City to Jewish parents, he gained prominence through his no ...

, Faisal Kutty,

Jason Leopold Jason Arthur Leopold (born October 7, 1969) is an American investigative reporter who writes for ''Bloomberg News''. He was previously an investigative reporter for ''BuzzFeed, BuzzFeed News,'' ''Al Jazeera America,'' and ''Vice News''. He work ...

Dave Lindorff Dave Lindorff is an American investigative reporter, filmmaker, a columnist for ''CounterPunch'' and a contributor to '' Tarbell.org,'' ''The Nation,'' ''FAIR'' and ''Salon.com''. His work was highlighted by Project Censored 2004, 2011 and 2012. ...

Mahmood Mamdani Mahmood Mamdani, FBA (born 23 April 1946) is an Indian-born Ugandan academic, author, and political commentator, based in New York City. He is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and a Professor of Anthropology, Political Science and ...

, Eric Margolis,

Cynthia McKinney Cynthia Ann McKinney (born March 17, 1955) is a former American politician. As a member of the Democratic Party, she served six terms in the United States House of Representatives. She was the first African American woman elected to represent G ...

, Mark Crispin Miller,

Ed Naha Ed Naha (born June 10, 1950) is an American science fiction and mystery writer and producer. His first known publication was artwork that appeared in the first issue of ''Modern Monsters'' magazine, dated June 1966. Education and early career ...

Ezra Nawi Ezra Yitzhak Nawi (; 1951 – 9 January 2021) was an Israeli Jew, left-wing, human rights activist and pacifist. He was particularly active among the Bedouin herders and farmers of the South Hebron Hills and against the establishment of Israeli ...

Sean Penn Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American actor and film director. He is known for his intense leading man roles in film. List of awards and nominations received by Sean Penn, His accolades include two Academy Awards, a Golden Gl ...

James Petras James Petras (born 17 January 1937) is a retired Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York and adjunct professor at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada who has published on politic ...

, Kevin Pina, James Ridgeway,

Kenneth Ring Kenneth Ring (born December 13, 1935) is an American psychologist, born in San Francisco, California. He is the co-founder and past president of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) and is the founding editor of the '' Jou ...

Yvonne Ridley Yvonne Ridley (born 23 April 1958) is a British journalist, author and politician who holds several committee positions with the Alba Party in Scotland. She was a former chair of the National Council of the now-defunct Respect Party. Ridley ...

Paul William Roberts Paul William Roberts (1950 – May 17, 2019) was a Canadian writer who spent many years in Toronto before moving to the Laurentians in Quebec upon losing his vision. Born in Wales and educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he gained a secon ...

David Rovics David Stefan Rovics ( ; born April 10, 1967) is an American indie singer/songwriter. His music concerns both topical subjects such as the 2003 Iraq war, anti-globalization, anarchism, and social justice issues, and also labor history. R ...

Danny Schechter Daniel Isaac Schechter (June 27, 1942 – March 19, 2015) was an American television producer, independent filmmaker, blogger, and media critic. He wrote and spoke about many issues including apartheid, civil rights, economics, foreign policy, jo ...

Jules Siegel Jules Siegel (October 21, 1935 – November 17, 2012) was a novelist, journalist, and graphic designer who is best known as one of the earliest writers to treat rock music as a serious art form, although his writings about rock constituted only ...

, Norman Solomon, David Swanson, Rodrigue Tremblay, Roland Michel Tremblay,

Deepak Tripathi Deepak Tripathi, (born 1951) is a British historian of Indian origin with particular reference to South Asia, the Middle East, the Cold War, and the United States in the post-Soviet world. Life and career Tripathi's grandfather, Pandit Vishw ...

, and

Harvey Wasserman Harvey Franklin Wasserman (born December 31, 1945) 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 since 1973, and i ...

Closing

Atlantic Free Press closed on Friday 14 October 2011. The editor-in-chief, Richard Kastelein, cited financial burden and personal time limitations as reasons for the closing. At the time of closing, the Atlantic Free Press had published over 13,000 articles. Pacific Free Press carried the torch after the closing, and as of January 2020 is still active.

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