Award-winning
investigative journalist Jeffrey St. Clair presents a shocking
look at the war on the home front: the battle against the Earth.
From the ancient forests of Oregon to the toxic wasteland of
Cancer Alley, St. Clair exposes the convergence of forces that
drive the exploitation of the environemnt: corrupt politicians,
greed-obsessed corporadoes, apathetic bureaucrats and complicit
media, owned and funded by the very same businesses profiting
from the ruination of the natural world.
St. Clair shows
how the compromises of the Clinton era, from the hollowing of
the Endangered Species Act to loosening of rules on toxic chemicals,
opened the floodgates for the wholesale rape-and-pillage of the
Bush years.
Unsparing,
yes. But not hopeless. From Apaches in Arizona fighting the Vatican’s
telescope on their sacred mountain to tree-sitters in the California
redwoods, St. Clair chronicles the vibrant new movement confronting
the forces of despoilation at every turn, united in their demand
for environmental justice.
Table of Contents
Opening Statements
The Map is
Not the Territory
Part One: The
Politics of Expediency & Exploitation
1. Been Brown
So Long It Looked Like Green to Me
2. Bush: the
Early Years
Part Two: Wild
Matters
3. The Fall
of a Tiimber Giant
4. The Chainsaw
Hyocrite
5. Ransoming
Yellowstone
6. Oceans without
Fish
7. The Pulp
Parachute
8. Why David
Chain Died
9. And Then
There Were Three
10. The Ghost
Bears of Idaho
11. The New
Bison Killers
12. To the
Last Drop
13. Giving
It All Away
14. Chainsaw
George
15. Something
Rotten in Klamath
16. Going Critical
Part Three:
Toxic Nation
17. The Risky
Business of Life
18. Eve, Don’t
Touch That Apple!
19. Dioxins
for Dinner
20. The Monsanto
Machine
21. Inside
Big Meat
22. Killing
the Tisza
23. The Drug
War According to Dr. Mengele
Part Four:
Power Plays
24. Oily Wedlock
25. Crude Aspirations
26. Blowing
Smoke
27. For Enron
Size Does Matter
28. Old King
Coal Still Reigns
29. Enron Has
Fallen
30. Whistling
in the Dark
31. The Big
Prize
32. Atomic
Trains in a Post 9/11 World
33. From Sen.
Lunkhead to Energy Czar
34. Shafts
of Death
35. A Shock
to the System
Part Five:
On Native Ground
36. Showdown
at Big Mountain
37. Star Whores
38. The Battle
for Zuni Salt Lake
39. Black Deeds
in the Black Hills
40. Stolen
Trust
41. Totem Thieves
Part Six: The
Military Menace
43. Doomsday
at Deseret
44. Chemical
Weapons: the US History
45. Germ War
46. Hot Property,
Cold Cash
47. Cancer
as Weapon: Depleted Uranium
48. The World’s
Biggest Nuclear Test
49. One of
Our H-Bombs is Missing
50. Battlefield
Alaska
51. When We
Bombed the World
52. Fallon’s
Fallen
Part Seven:
Excursions
53. Disquiet
on the Western Front
54. High and
Dry in the Mojave
55. Something
About Butte
