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The Secret History of the Bush Regime From the Award-Winning journalist comes a much-anticipated collection of his penetrating and prescient coverage of the Bush Administration. Never has the American Republic stood in such a degraded state as it does today: terrorized, militarized, subjected to arbitrary rule, riddled with corruption, despised and feared around the world - and more exposed to attack than ever before. How the hell did we get here? Empire Burlesque tells the tale, giving us the secret history of the Bush Regime - the backroom deals, the covert ops, and the monstrous betrayals of American principles that have gone down behind the pious rhetoric and sugary deceptions.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #1585184 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 248 pages

From the Publisher

Floyd is an American journalist now based in Great Britain
and is currently 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. We are proud to have been part of this project.

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...

From the Back Cover
How did the Republic descend into such a degraded state? Empire
Burlesque digs up the true story, the secret history,and plays it back in
real-time, providing a unique view from the ground as it was happening -
step by step, into the dark.

About the Author

Chris Floyd is an American journalist. He writes the weekly Global Eye
political column for The Moscow Times and St. Petersburg Times. His work
also appears in The Ecologist, The Nation, CounterPunch, Christian Science
Monitor, Bergen Record, Columbia Journalism Review and elsewhere around the
world. He is the author of the book, Empire Burlesque: The Secret History
of the Bush Regime. His columns are featured each week on Bush Watch. He
has been a writer and editor for more than 20 years, working in the United
States, Great Britain and Russia for various newspapers, magazines, the
U.S. government and Oxford University.

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 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 others. He also worked with contributors from around the
world - Islamic scientists, Jewish theologians, militant atheists, Nobel
Prize-winning physicists, and authors such as Freeman Dyson, Paul Davies,
Lisa Jardine, A.N. Wilson, John Polkinghorne and others.

Since 2000, Floyd has worked as a freelance journalist and as a writer
and researcher for Oxford University. In addition to the "Global Eye," his
work is also published weekly in CounterPunch and the Bergen Record, and he
is a regular contributor to The Ecologist magazine and the Anderson Valley
Advertiser. His work has also appeared in The Nation, The Guardian,
Columbia Journalism Review, The Christian Science Monitor, the Baltimore
Chronicle, and on innumerable websites around the world, including Common
Dreams, Buzzflash, Democrats.com, BushWatch, The Smirking Chimp, Cursor,
Make Them Accountable and many others.

His 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
pieces have been anthologized in Media Democracy in Action: Censored 2004,
and the I Hate Republicans Reader. He also speaks occasionally on American
radio, where his mumbling Southern drawl has befuddled listeners in New
York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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.