Chris Floyd
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Chris Floyd (1958, Watertown, Tennessee, United States) is an American journalist and author and a critic of George W. Bush.
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[edit] Biography
Chris Floyd is a political journalist known chiefly for his strong polemical writings critical of George W. Bush and his Administration. Floyd was born and raised in Wilson County, Tennessee. The controversy surrounding the expulsion of dissident writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn from the Soviet Union in the early 1970s led Floyd to an interest in Russian literature, and he received a B.A. in Russian from the University of Tennessee. He later studied journalism and religious studies at the graduate level at Tennessee, but did not get a higher degree.
Floyd's journalism career began in Tennessee and southern Mississippi working for local newspapers, covering crime, courts and politics. In 1984, Floyd began working as a writer/editor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. [1] He then 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. . During this time, he also taught Russian Literature in English Translation for one year at the University of Tennessee.
In 1994, Floyd went to Moscow, where he found work at The Moscow Times, an English-language daily and one of the first independent newspapers of the post-Soviet era. He served in several positions at the paper, including film critic from 1996 to 2000. In 1995, Floyd began writing the "Global Eye" column for the Times. He continued writing the column after leaving Moscow in 1996. The column also appeared weekly in The St. Petersburg Times (Russia). The Moscow Times stopped publishing the column in August 2006, and Floyd began writing a weekly column for Truthout.org.
From 1998 to 2000, Floyd was the editor of Science & Spirit, an Oxford-based quarterly journal dealing with the contentious relationship between religion and science. His work there included interviews with such prominent thinkers as Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Steven Pinker, Frans de Waal,V.S. Ramachandran, Freeman Dyson, Paul Davies, Lisa Jardine, A.N. Wilson, and John Polkinghorne. [2]
Since 2000, Floyd has worked as a freelance journalist and as a writer and researcher for Oxford University. He also writes a blog of political news and commentary, Empire Burlesque, which was created using open-source software by Content Management System Architect and webmaster Richard Kastelein.
Floyd has been married twice and has four children.
[edit] Writings
Chris Floyd is the author of the book Empire Burlesque: High Crimes and Low Comedy in the Bush Imperium, 2001-2005.
Floyd writes weekly for the website, Truthout.org which he picked up after ten years of writing the weekly Global Eye political column for The Moscow Times and St. Petersburg Times Floyd is also the Chief Editor of Atlantic Free Press. His work is also published regularly in Counterpunch. From 2001-2004, he was an editorial writer for the Bergen Record of New Jersey. Floyd's work has also appeared in the The Ecologist, Anderson Valley Advertiser, The Nation, the Columbia Journalism Review, The Christian Science Monitor, the Baltimore Chronicle and other publications. His work also regularly appears on many political websites around the world.
His November 2002 story, "Into the Dark: The Pentagon Plan to Foment Terrorism," was chosen as one of Project Censored's "Top 25 Stories of 2002/2003." His work has also been anthologized in Media Democracy in Action: Censored 2004, and the I Hate Republicans Reader.
In 2005, Floyd released an album of his songs, Wheel of Heaven, recorded in collaboration with producer/musician Nick Kulukundis.
