Jeffrey St. Clair
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Jeffrey St. Clair (born 1959 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an investigative journalist, writer and co-editor, with Alexander Cockburn, of the political newsletter CounterPunch. His reporting specializes on environmental and military issues.
St. Clair attended the American University in Washington, D.C., majoring in English and History. He has worked as an environmental organizer and writer for Friends of the Earth, Clean Water Action Project and the Hoosier Environmental Council.
In 1990, he moved to Oregon to edit the influential environmental magazine Forest Watch, published by the libertarian economist Randal O'Toole. In 1994, he joined journalists Alexander Cockburn and Ken Silverstein on CounterPunch. He now co-edits the newsletter and the popular website.
In 1998, he published his first book, with Cockburn, Whiteout: the CIA, Drugs and the Press, a history of the CIA's ties to drug gangs from World War II to the Mujahideen and Nicaraguan Contras. This was followed by A Field Guide to Environmental Bad Guys (with James Ridgeway), Five Days that Shook the World: Seattle and Beyond, Al Gore: a User's Manual, and Been Brown So Long It Looked Like Green to Me: the Politics of Nature.
Jeffrey St. Clair lives in Oregon City with his wife Kimberly Willson, a librarian.
Books
- Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press (1998) (with Alexander Cockburn)
- A Field Guide to Environmental Bad Guys (with James Ridgeway)
- Five Days That Shook The World: The Battle for Seattle and Beyond (2000) (with Alexander Cockburn)
- Al Gore: A User's Manual (2000) (with Alexander Cockburn)
- CounterPunch: The Journalism That Rediscovers America (2002) (co-edited with Alexander Cockburn)
- Trials of Sex (co-edited with Alexander Cockburn)
- The Politics of Anti-Semitism (2003) (co-edited Alexander Cockburn)
- Been Brown So Long, It Looked Like Green to Me: The Politics of Nature (2003)
- Serpents in the Garden: Liaisons with Culture and Sex (2004) (co-edited with Alexander Cockburn)
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