Jeffrey St. Clair (born 1959 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an investigative journalist, writer, and editor. He has been a co editor of CounterPunch since 1999.

Jeffrey St. Clair
Born1959 (age 64–65)
Alma materAmerican University (B.A.)
OccupationJournalist

Biography

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St Clair was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and attended American University in Washington, D.C., majoring in English and history.[citation needed] In the late 1970s he protested construction of the Marble Hill Nuclear Power Plant.[1] He has worked as an environmental organizer and writer for Friends of the Earth, Clean Water Action, and the Hoosier Environmental Council.

In 1990, he moved to Oregon to edit the environmental magazine Forest Watch. In 1994, he joined journalists Alexander Cockburn and Ken Silverstein on CounterPunch and has contributed as an author since.[2] He co-edited CounterPunch from 1999 to 2012 with Cockburn until the latter's death in 2012. St. Clair has served as an editor since 2012, joined by managing editor Joshua Frank in 2012.

St. Clair is a former contributing editor to the monthly magazine In These Times.[3] He has also written for The Progressive.[citation needed]

In 1998, he published his first book, with Cockburn, Whiteout: the CIA, Drugs and the Press, a history of the CIA's alleged ties to drug gangs from World War II to the Mujahideen and Nicaraguan Contras.[4] This was followed by A Field Guide to Environmental Bad Guys (with James Ridgeway), and with Cockburn, Five Days that Shook the World: Seattle and Beyond, and Al Gore: a User's Manual.

St. Clair co-authored a weekly syndicated column with Alexander Cockburn called "Nature and Politics." The 65 articles were published 2003 in Been Brown So Long It Looked Like Green to Me: the Politics of Nature. It has been called a virtual handbook for radical environmentalists.[5]

Grand Theft Pentagon,[6] and Born Under a Bad Sky: Notes from the Dark Side of the Earth. His book, Bernie and the Sandernistas: Field Notes from a Failed Revolution, was published in late-2016.

As of 2009 St. Clair was married, had college aged children and lived in Oregon City, Oregon.[1]

Reception

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St. Clair has been mentioned as being in the "finest journalistic traditions" of the US going back to Oregon journalist John Reed and I.F. Stone.[5]

Works

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With Alexander Cockburn
  • Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press (Verso, 1998) ISBN 978-1-85984-258-4
  • Al Gore: A User's Manual (Verso, 2000) ISBN 978-1-85984-803-6[7]
  • Five Days That Shook The World: The Battle for Seattle and Beyond (Verso, 2000) ISBN 978-1-85984-779-4
  • The Politics of Anti-Semitism, co-edited (AK Press, 2003) ISBN 978-1-902593-77-7
  • Imperial Crusades: Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia (Verso, 2004) ISBN 978-1-84467-506-7
  • Serpents in the Garden: Liaisons with Culture and Sex: CounterPunch Anthology, co-edited (AK Press, 2004) ISBN 978-1-902593-94-4
Other

References

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  1. ^ a b Robinson, Ann (March 27, 2009). "A conversation with conservationist Jeffrey St. Clair". The Oregonian. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  2. ^ "Jeffrey St. Clair". CounterPunch.org. 2023-05-07. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  3. ^ "Jeffrey St. Clair". In These Times. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  4. ^ Adams, James (September 27, 1998). "Moonlighting?". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  5. ^ a b Louis Proyect (2004-03-29). "Swans Commentary: Jeffrey St. Clair's "The Politics of Nature,"". www.swans.com. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  6. ^ "The system is irretrievably corrupt". Socialist Worker. April 14, 2006. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  7. ^ Brooks, Oakley (October 1, 2006). "Blowing up the system". Oregon Business Journal. Archived from the original on 10 June 2015. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  8. ^ Frank, Joshua (April 3, 2006). "Pentagon Thievery; An Interview with Jeffrey St. Clair". Lew Rockwell.com. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
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