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Jeffrey St. Clair is an investigative journalist, writer and editor. He is the co-editor, with Alexander Cockburn, of the political newsletter CounterPunch, and a contributing editor to the monthly magazine In These Times. His reporting specializes in 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. Born Under a Bad Sky: Notes from the Dark Side of the Earth. In this chilling survey of the American landscape, investigative journalist Jeffrey St. Clair guides readers through the environmental wreckage of North America, from the plutonium-contaminated fields of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation to Indian Point Energy Center, the world's most dangerous nuclear plant. St. Clair exposes the corrupt political machinery driving the exploitation of the American outback. From the clear-cutting of ancient forests to the damming of some of the world's wildest rivers, he outs the politicians, Democratic and Republican alike, who are profiting from the poisoning of the planet. Enter a world that is part Hieronymus Bosch and part Georgia O'Keefe. This is not only a savage philippic against the foulers of Nature's temple, but a homage to the planet itself. There is beauty as well as horrors here. These dispatches are from the frontlines of the war on Earth. Gird yourself!

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