Jeffrey St. Clair Explained

Jeffrey St. Clair
Birth Place:Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
Alma Mater:American University (B.A.)
Occupation:Journalist

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.

Biography

St Clair was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and attended American University in Washington, D.C., majoring in English and history. In the late 1970s he protested construction of the Marble Hill Nuclear Power Plant.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.[1] 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.[2] He has also written for The Progressive.

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.[3] 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.[4]

Grand Theft Pentagon,[5] 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.[6]

Reception

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.

Works

With Alexander Cockburn
Other

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2023-05-07 . Jeffrey St. Clair . 2023-05-07 . CounterPunch.org . en-US.
  2. Web site: Jeffrey St. Clair . In These Times . 31 October 2020.
  3. News: Adams . James . Moonlighting? . 31 October 2020 . The New York Times . September 27, 1998.
  4. Web site: Louis Proyect . 2004-03-29 . Swans Commentary: Jeffrey St. Clair's "The Politics of Nature," . 2023-05-07 . www.swans.com.
  5. Web site: The system is irretrievably corrupt . Socialist Worker . 31 October 2020 . April 14, 2006.
  6. News: Robinson . Ann . March 27, 2009 . A conversation with conservationist Jeffrey St. Clair . The Oregonian . 31 October 2020.
  7. News: Brooks . Oakley . Blowing up the system . 31 October 2020 . Oregon Business Journal . October 1, 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150610000919if_/http://www.oregonbusiness.com/articles/45/1275 . 10 June 2015 . dead.
  8. Web site: Frank . Joshua . Pentagon Thievery; An Interview with Jeffrey St. Clair . Lew Rockwell.com . 31 October 2020 . April 3, 2006.

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