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Chip Berlet

Chip Berlet was an investigative journalist and photographer, and dedicated his life to documenting social and political movements that undermine human rights. He was key to the founding of PRA and an original staff member and senior analyst, later serving as Senior Advisor to PRA from 2017-2018. 

Chip’s byline appeared in scores of publications, including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Progressive, and Amnesty Now. He was a guest expert on ABC’s Nightline, The Today Show, NPR’s All Things Considered, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, Democracy Now with Amy Goodman, among other radio and television programs. He authored Eyes Right! and Right-Wing A style of politics that involves an effort to mobilize “the people” into a social or political movement around some form of anti-elitism. Such movements can be egalitarian or authoritarian, inclusive or exclusionary, forward-looking or fixated on a romanticized image of the past. Learn more in America: Too Close for Comfort (with Matthew N. Lyons) and was a frequent contributor to Talk2Action and Huffington Post.

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Political Research Associates
A Google(tm) search on January 12, 2005 turned up some 5,000 hits on the following quote: “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini
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Public Eye
Why are increased sentences and the severe punishment of those convicted of crimes so popular and prevalent in U.S. culture? Since the late 1970s our society has accepted increasingly rigid and vengeful ways of punishing those convicted of crimes.
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Political Research Associates
An Overview of the U.S. Political Right
Our country is in the midst of the longest period of right-wing reaction against movements seeking equality, social justice, and economic fairness since the period of Reconstruction in the south.
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