Chip Berlet

Chip Berlet

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Chip Berlet is senior analyst at Political Research Associates in the Boston area. For over 25 years he has written about civil liberties, social justice, right-wing groups, prejudice, systems of oppression, and scapegoating. Berlet is co–author of Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort (Guilford, 2000) and editor of Eyes Right! Challenging the Right Wing Backlash (South End Press, 1995), both of which received a Gustavus Myers Center Award for outstanding scholarship on human rights and bigotry in North America. Berlet’s byline has appeared in publications ranging from the New York Times and Boston Globe to the Progressive and Amnesty Now. He has appeared on ABC Nightline, the NBC Today Show, NPR’s All things Considered, Democracy Now, and many other radio and television programs.

His essays here on Huffington Post are his own views, and do not represent the views of Political Research Associates, or any other employer. They are posted on his own time.

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Blog Entries by Chip Berlet

Inflammatory Committee Terror Report Helps McCain/Lieberman Target Obama

10 Comments | Posted May 12, 2008 | 09:27 AM (EST)


An inflammatory first report on the domestic threat of "violent Islamist extremism" issued a week ago via the Senate Committee on Homeland Security turns out not to have been drafted by the Committee at all. The report was drafted solely under the direction of Committee Chairman Joseph Lieberman (CT)-- a...

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Lieberman's Very Serious Muslim-Bashing Senate Report

43 Comments | Posted May 9, 2008 | 06:22 PM (EST)


A bigoted bombshell was lobbed from Inside the Beltway last Thursday when the Senate Committee on Homeland Security under the "leadership" of Committee Chairman Joseph Lieberman and ranking Republican Susan Collins. The report, "Violent Islamist Extremism, the Internet, and the Homegrown Terrorism Threat," (PDF) combines Muslim bashing with...

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Lieberman Gift To McCain: Senate Islamist Terrorism Report

53 Comments | Posted May 8, 2008 | 06:04 PM (EST)


When a bipartisan Congressional committee issues a report on the threat of domestic terrorist violence during an election year, you can be sure that the centrist establishment is worried about the popular backlash against government repression and the threat to civil liberties.

That's nothing new.

Scholar William W. Keller...

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Huckabee Fails to Keep Southern Evangelical Base United

Posted February 5, 2008 | 10:00 PM (EST)


Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee started out his evening speech on Super Tuesday with two Biblical references, when in fact, his Biblical base is slipping--but not far away.

Huckabee is getting a lot of press attention for doing so well with Southern evangelicals, but if you examine vote totals and...

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Reading the Bible Belt Before Coming of Super Tuesday

Posted February 3, 2008 | 05:35 PM (EST)


Yes, it's true. A weird hermit, writing about his visions in a cave one hundred years after the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, will sway a lot of Republican voters in the upcoming Super Tuesday primary elections 2008. An astonishing number of Christian evangelicals take Bible prophecy so seriously that...

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Ron Paul and the Bigots: Plain Talk or Plausible Deniability?

Posted January 10, 2008 | 06:28 PM (EST)


Ron Paul wants us to believe that he wasn't paying attention when the newsletters that went out under his name for twenty years carried articles that were racist, homophobic, and antisemitic.
This story has circulated before; however when The New Republic posted a story on Tuesday detailing...

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