jeffrey st clair born 1959 in indianapolis indiana is an investigative journalist writer and editor he was the coeditor with alexander cockburn who died in 2012 of the political newsletter counterpunch and a contributing editor to the monthly magazine in these times he has also written for the washington post san francisco examiner the nation and the progressive his reporting focuses on the politics surrounding environmental and military issuesst clair attended the american university in washington dc 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 councilin 1990 he moved to oregon to edit the influential environmental magazine forest watch published by the libertarian economist randal otoole in 1994 he joined journalists alexander cockburn and ken silverstein on counterpunch he now coedits the newsletter and the popular websitein 1998 he published his first book with cockburn whiteout the cia drugs and the press a history of the cias 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 users manual and been brown so long it looked like green to me the politics of nature and born under a bad sky notes from the dark side of the earthin october 2000 a month before the 2000 us presidential election st clair wrote in counterpunch magazine is there a more palpable sign of the neoliberals mounting desperation than that they are now warning progressives and leftists that a vote for ralph nader is the surest way to elect george w bush this is a malicious game of threat of inflation where bush a pathetic moron who resembles no one so much as our greatest president gerald ford is puffed up into midland texas own version of saddam hussein its a cynical ploy yet millions have fallen for it trembling out of fearjeffrey st clair lives in oregon city with his wife kimberly willsonst clair a librarian