Investigative Journalism & Research
Curated by Chip Berlet

The goal of this research is to use a human rights framework to build democratic civil society, and assist groups and individuals defending and extending democracy, liberty, and equality.

Chip's Current Writing Projects

Recent Writing Projects

  • Chip Berlet. Forthcoming, Fall 2012. “Reframing Populist Resentments in the Tea Party Movement.” In Steep: The Precipitous Rise of the Tea Party. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.
  • _______. Forthcoming, 2012. “Collectivists, Communists, Labor Bosses, and Treason: The Tea Parties as Right–Wing Populist Countersubversion Panic. In Critical Sociology.
  • _______. 2011. “Protocols to the Left, Protocols to the Right: Conspiracism in American Political Discourse at the Turn of the Second Millennium.” In Richard Landes and Steven Katz, The Paranoid Apocalypse: A Hundred-year Retrospective on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. New York: New York Univ. Press.
    _______. 2011. “Muckraking Gadflies Buzz Reality” In Ken Wachsberger, ed., Voices from the Underground: Insider Histories of the Vietnam Era Underground Press, Part 1, East Lansing, MI: Michigan State Univ. Press, pp. 267-297.
  • _______. 2011. “Analyzing Breivik’s Ideology with Social Network Research.” In e-Extreme, the online journal of ECPR, the Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy, Vol. 12, No. 3, (October), pp. 7-8.
    _______. 2011. “Taking Tea Parties Seriously: Corporate Globalization, Populism, and Resentment.” In Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, Global Studies Association of North America, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 11-29.

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Want to see and hear what the current leading Republican Presidential candidates say when the speak to the leading Christian Right activists?

Held annually in Washington, DC, the Values Voter Summits are the most important public meeting of the organized Christian Right in the United States.

These are huge, raw, unedited video files that I videoed for notes and fact-checking quotes for my articles.

Videos:

Newt Gingrich 2010 (with introduction)

Ron Paul 2011 (excerpt)

Mitt Romney 2009 (excerpt)

More to come...

 

The GOP & Racist Producerism

Some Questions for Ron Paul

Power Structure Research

Power Structure Research is a method of analysis based on criticizing unfair systems, structures, and institutions in society.

Power Structure Research rejects conspiracy theory as a useful form of analysis and instead looks at social, political, economic, and cultural practices that create, expand, defend, or restore inequalities based on race, gender, or class.

Power Structure Research unveils the social costs of corporate activities in terms of work, government policies, the quality of life, and the sustainability of a healthy planet.

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Studying Right-Wing Movements

You can rely on the information found at these online resources:

 

 

 

Resources

Movement Building

Other Websites Curated by Chip

Building Human Rights

Building Liberty

StopSpying.US

Underground Press Syndicate Archive

Democracy is a process,
not a specific set of institutions

Democracy is a process that assumes
the majority of people, over time,
given enough accurate information,
and the ability to participate
in a free and open public debate,
reach constructive decisions
that benefit the whole of society, and
preserve liberty,
protect our freedoms,
extend equality, and
defend democracy.