Articles by Jeffrey St. Clair
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The Burning of Rafah’s Tent People
Jeffrey St. Clair | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
31 May 2024 – People were saying their evening prayers when the IDF attacked the refuge camp at Tel al-Sultan in southern Gaza, where thousands had fled from the Israeli invasion of Rafah. They were told by the Israelis this was a safe zone, a secure place to shelter their children and grandparents.
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Franklin Lamb (26 Feb 1942 – 13 Jul 2018), Requiescat in Pace
Jeffrey St. Clair and Raouf Halaby – CounterPunch,
8 Oct 2018
From TMS Editor: Franklin Lamb was an active member of the TRANSCEND Network whom I first met at a peace mission to Beirut and Damascus in 2013 along with delegates from around the world including Nobel Peace laureate Mairead Maguire. Franklin was an indefatigable, fearless, selfless fighter for Palestinian rights, peace and social justice in Syria and the Middle East. RIP dear friend and role model. I had no knowledge of his passing till now.
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Ghosts in the Propaganda Machine
Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank - CounterPunch,
8 Jan 2018
5 Jan 2018 – Is this what online journalism looks like in the era of Russiagate fever? A fake writer catfishes CounterPunch and a dozen other online websites. A handful of her articles are published over a two-year period. Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank expose an entire network of internet trolls.
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Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn - CounterPunch,
13 Nov 2017
By the early 1950s the CIA’s relationship with drugs stretched from alliances with criminal smugglers of heroin to research in, and application of, lethal or mind-altering chemical agents… Unknown to those round the convivial table, the CIA’s Dr. Sidney Gottlieb had decided to spike the Cointreau with a heavy dose of LSD… Late that night Dr. Frank Olson, the army’s foremost expert on biological warfare, run across the room and jumped through a curtained and closed window, crashing down to the street from the tenth-floor room.
→ read full articleThe Political Economy of Dead Meat: Why Mad Cows are the Least of It
Jeffrey St. Clair & Alexander Cockburn – Counter Punch,
16 May 2016
Intensive meat production–these days mostly of beef, veal, pork, and chicken–is an act of violence: primarily, of course, an act of violence against the creatures involved. But it is also violence against nature and against poor people. The modern livestock industry economy and the passion for meat have radically altered the look of the planet.
→ read full articleA Secret History of the Monarch: How the Biotech Industry Conspired to Knock Off One of the World’s Rarest Butterflies
Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn - CounterPunch,
4 Jan 2016
On May 20 1999, Nature magazine sounded what might have been the death knell of the biotech food industry. John Losey, a professor of entomology at Cornell University, reported the ominous results of his laboratory study: Monarch caterpillars fed on milkweed leaves dusted with genetically modified corn pollen ate less, grew more slowly and suffered a higher mortality rate than those fed on leaves with normal pollen, or with no pollen at all. Nearly half of the GM pollen-fed caterpillars in the study died.
→ read full articleThe Malthusian Obsession: Eugenics, American-Style
Jeffrey St. Clair - CounterPunch,
13 Jan 2014
California’s eugenics program proved so efficient that in the 1930s, Nazi scientists asked California eugenicists for advice on how to run their own sterilization regime. They modeled their law on California’s law.
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