Jeffrey St. Clair (born 1959) is an

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, writer, and editor.

Biography

St Clair was born in

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and attended

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in Washington, D.C., majoring in English and history. He has worked as an environmental organizer and writer for

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, and the Hoosier Environmental Council. In 1990, he moved to

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to edit the environmental magazine ''Forest Watch''. In 1994, he joined journalists

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and

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on ''CounterPunch''. He co-edited ''CounterPunch'' from 1999 to 2012 with Cockburn until the latter's death in 2012. St. Clair has served as editor since 2012, joined by managing editor

Joshua Frank Joshua Frank (born in Billings, Montana
June 1, 2007, Ed Kemmick, Billings Gazett ...

in 2012. St. Clair is a former contributing editor to the monthly magazine ''

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''. He has also written for ''

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''. 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

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to the

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and

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. This was followed by ''A Field Guide to Environmental Bad Guys'' (with

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), and with Cockburn, ''Five Days that Shook the World: Seattle and Beyond'', and ''

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: a User's Manual''. St. Clair wrote the books, ''Been Brown So Long It Looked Like Green to Me: the Politics of Nature'', ''Grand Theft Pentagon'', 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. St. Clair lives in

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Works

;With Alexander Cockburn * ''Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press'' (

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, 1998) * ''Al Gore: A User's Manual'' (Verso, 2000) * ''Five Days That Shook The World: The Battle for Seattle and Beyond'' (Verso, 2000) * ''

The Politics of Anti-Semitism ''The Politics of Anti-Semitism'' is a book edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair and published by AK Press in 2003. Contributors include former U.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney, British foreign correspondent Robert Fisk, forme ...

'', co-edited (

AK Press AK Press is a worker-managed, independent publisher and book distributor that specialises in radical left and anarchist literature. Operated out of Chico, California, the company is collectively owned. History AK was founded in Stirling, S ...

, 2003) * ''Imperial Crusades: Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia'' (Verso, 2004) * ''Serpents in the Garden: Liaisons with Culture and Sex: CounterPunch Anthology'', co-edited (AK Press, 2004) ;Other * With James Ridgeway - ''A Pocket Guide to Environmental Bad Guys'' (

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, 1999) * ''Been Brown So Long, It Looked Like Green to Me: The Politics of Nature'' ( Common Courage Press, 2003) * ''Grand Theft Pentagon :Tales of Corruption and Profiteering in the War on Terror'' (Common Courage Press, 2005) * ''Born Under a Bad Sky: Notes from the Dark Side of the Earth'' (AK Press, 2007) * Co-editor with Joshua Frank - ''Red State Rebels: Tales of Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland'' (AK Press, 2008) * Co-editor with Joshua Frank - ''Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion'' (AK Press, 2013) * Co-editor with Kevin Alexander Gray and JoAnn Wypijewski - ''Killing Travons: An Anthology of American Violence'' (

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via

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, 2014) * ''Bernie and the Sandernistas: Field Notes From a Failed Revolution''. (CounterPunch via CreateSpace, 2016)

References

External links

"Monkeywrench Hope: An Interview with Jeffrey St. Clair"
by

Joshua Frank Joshua Frank (born in Billings, Montana
June 1, 2007, Ed Kemmick, Billings Gazett ...

, ''

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'', August 19, 2004, retrieved 25 April 2007
Notes from the Dark Side of Earth
Jeffrey St. Clair speaks about his books and views in Sacramento, CA on July 15, 2008
"Q&A: Jeffrey St Clair"
by Ben Terrall, ''Terrain'', Winter 2008, retrieved 25 April 2013 {{DEFAULTSORT:St. Clair, Jeffrey 1959 births Living people American alternative journalists American male journalists American non-fiction environmental writers American political writers American University alumni Newsletter publishers (people) People from Oregon City, Oregon Journalists from Oregon