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Toxic to Democracy:
Conspiracy Theories, Demonization and Scapegoating
by Chip Berlet

Fresh Air with Terry Gross

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Media Matters Press Conference

• Media Matters for America Senior Fellow Eric Boehlert moderated a June 18th panel discussion on how violent, doomsday, and anti-intellectual rhetoric -- once relegated to the fringe -- has spread across conservative media, as well as offer an assessment of the possible consequences of this troubling trend.
• Report on Right-wing media and the fringe: A growing history of violence (and denial).
• Report on Emerging Culture of Paranoia.

More from Political Research Associates

• Critique of the Homeland Security "Extremism" reports by Thomas Cincotta
• White Supremacist Shootings Post-Election Create Deadly Legacy by Chip Berlet
• Poking the Racist Beehive by Chip Berlet (Progressive Magazine)
• Racial Justice Portal Page
• Behind the murder at the Holocaust Memorial Museum.
• For articles that shed light on the complex relationships between thought and action behind the assassination of Dr. Tiller.
• The Return of Killing for Life A Guest Commentary by Carol Mason
• PRA Senior Analyst Chip Berlet and Public Eye magazine contributor Fred Clarkson speak about the murder on this Democracy Now video.
• Explaining the social science dynamics: Right-Wing Populism, the Patriot Movement, and Organized White Supremacy

More from Frederick Clarkson & Talk to Action

• Frederick Clarkson, Inflammatory Rhetoric as the Context of Assassination, Talk to Action
• Frederick Clarkson: Beware 'Lone Nut' Theory in Tiller's Murder, Women's eNews
• Bill Berkowitz:  Hate Speech Leads to Violence: In Wake of Abortion Doc Murder, Religious Leaders Skirt the Issue, Talk to Action.
• Ruth:  Conspiracy as Prophecy, Talk to Action

More from our ally Rinku Sen

• The White Supremacist in Us on Huffington Post

More from these groups

• American Civil Liberties Union
• Anti-Defamation League
• Center for New Community
• Fairness & Accuray in Reporting
• Institute for Public Accuracy
• Media Matters for America
• NARAL - Pro Choice America
• National Gay & Lesbian Task Force
• People for the American Way
• Southern Poverty Law Center

Books with Background Information

Chip Berlet & Matthew N. Lyons. 2000. Right–Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort. New York: Guilford Press.

Martin Durham. 2007. White Rage: The Extreme Right and American Politics. London: Routledge.

_____. 2000. The Christian Right, the Far Right and the Boundaries of American Conservatism. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Daniel Levitas. 2002. The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right. New York: St. Martin's.

Carol Mason. 2002. Killing for Life: The Apocalyptic Narrative of Pro-Life Politics. Ithaca: Cornell.

David A. Neiwert. 2009. The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right. Sausalito, CA: PoliPoint Press.

Leonard Zeskind. 2009. Blood and Politics: the History of the White Nationalist Movement From the Margins to the Mainstream. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux.

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