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SPECIAL EXCERPT: TRUMP, ALT-RIGHT, SADO-POPULISM, AND APOCALYPTIC NEOFASCISM

Written by CHIP BERLET Posted December 15, 2019 Filed Under: Books, FEATURES, Non-fiction

Donald Trump is the product of a childhood immersed in White racist nationalism, hyper-masculinist misogyny, and the sneering elitism of the wealthiest 1%. His years as a teenager at New York Military Academy honed his authoritarianism and militarism.

Filed Under: Books, FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: alt right, Apocalyptic Neofascism, Chip Berlet, Sado-Populism, Trumping Democracy in the United States: From Reagan to Alt-Right

HOMEGROWN CONSPIRACIES: SATAN STALKS MASS HOUSE RACE

Written by CHIP BERLET Posted November 1, 2016 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

The current Republican election campaign is bubbling over with rumors, half-baked theories, and outright lies—this from the Donald Trump stovetop to the bottom baking rack.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, 21st Middlesex, Beacon Hill, Christian Right, Donald Trump, GOP, Hanscom Air Force Base, Ken Gordon, Paul Girouard, Republicans, RWNJs, Tim LaHaye

SPECIAL FEATURE: BOSTON’S MARATHON APOCALYPSE

Written by CHIP BERLET Posted April 15, 2016 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

​In ​hashing out what happened​ on that dark day three years ago​, it’s important to consider the Bay State’s history as an apocalyptic ground zero

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: 9/11, Anti-Shariah Task Force, April 15, Black Flags of Khorasan, Boston, British, Chip Berlet, Concord, Defending Dissent Foundation, ISIS, Islam, lexington, Marathon, marathon bombing, Massachusetts, terrorism

GUEST MEDIA FARM: LONE WOLVES AND SLEEPER CELLS

Written by CHIP BERLET Posted April 1, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS

This all may seem like irrelevant nitpicking over terminology, but it is important in understanding how terror cells are tracked by intelligence agencies.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: bombing trial, Boston Marathon Bombing, Eric Holder, federal attorneys, Janet Napolitano, Lone Wolf, Lone Wolves, Middle East, Sleeper Cells, Tsarnaev, US Attorney

THE BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING, ISIS, AND THE BLACK FLAGS OF KHORASAN

Written by CHIP BERLET Posted October 16, 2014 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Generally speaking, the Tsarnaevs apparently fashioned themselves heroes taking part in an apocalyptic mission to strike at the idea, blasphemous to them, that Boston is a beacon ofliberty in a land blessed by God.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Al Qaeda, apocalypse, Black Flags, Boston Marathon Bombing, Boston’s Marathon Apocalypse, Chip Berlet, End Times, ISIS, Khorasan, Sheikh Salman Al-Oadah, trial, Tsarnaev

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