by Richard Kastelein
Webmaster/Publisher
Empire Burlesque
This is a personal message from me. Chris can speak for himself, and I’m sure he will when the time is right, but I just wanted to let everyone know that today, after more than a decade of working with The Moscow Times, Chris Floyd was ‘let go’ by the new editor, who said Floyd’s column no longer fits in with the paper’s plans.
So that’s it. After 10 years of the "Global Eye" column, and 12 years overall with the paper, it’s over. After August 11, Floyd will no longer be published in the Moscow Times or, presumably, The St. Petersburg Times, which picked up the Moscow column each week.
He will, however, continue to publish his writings here at Empire Burlesque.
Feel free to write the editors at [email protected] on their decision to end the work of a dissident American columnist who has held the beam firmly on the Bush Imperium since 2000.
This came at a very strange time – since, we published the Third Edition of Empire Burlesque – High Crimes and Low Comedy in the Bush Imperium earlier this morning. – this book that will be available on amazon.com later this month.
It’s been a rollercoaster of a day.