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Chip Berlet

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  • Freelance Investigative Journalist and Essayist, Freelance
Boston
As seen in: HuffPost, TED, Educational Studies, Salon, Yahoo, Daily Kos, Routledge, Chicago Reader, AlterNet, Southern Poverty Law Center and
Covers:  Human Rights, Racism, White Supremacy, Neofascism, Right-Wing Social and Political Movements, Scripted Violence
Doesn't Cover: Sports, Gardening, Gossip, Outdoors, Music, Arts, Film, Television,
Journalist, researcher, and scholar covering civil rights and civil liberties

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Chip Berlet’s Biography

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Chip Berlet is an investigative journalist abducted by progressive sociologists. Dropping out of the University of Denver in 1973 to work in the College Press Service (CPS) collective in Denver. Berlet continued to be active in the antiwar and civil rights movements in that city, while also writing for several underground and alternative publications. CPS sent him to Washington, DC to cover education and other campus-related issues. He moved on to be editor of the National Student Association m…

Chip Berlet’s Journalist Portfolio

"White nationalism infuses our political ideology": Dylann Roof is just the beginning

"White nationalism infuses our political ideology": Dylann Roof is just the beginning

When Dylann Roof pulled a gun at a Bible study in Charleston, South Carolina, his shots rang through history …

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Taking Tea Partiers Seriously

Taking Tea Partiers Seriously

If you drive several hundred miles northeast over the mountains from that Boise, Idaho, meeting of the Libert…

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

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By Chip Berlet 
When the FBI named the Tsarnaev brothers persons of interest in the bombing of the Boston Marathon, an extensive search for a motive began. But in all the shuffling and conspiracy-hashing, most reporters missed clues indicating that the suspects had been swept up in a mission rooted in a marginal and much-disputed Islamic prophecy about apocalypse-and the proper role for religious heroes.
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BOSTON'S MARATHON APOCALYPSE

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By Chip Berlet 
​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 There is no shining beacon on the hill in Boston. There is a shiny gold dome capping the Massachusetts State House just a short walk down to the site of the Boston Marathon bombing. When the Tsarnaev brothers were announced as suspects in the 2013 attack, the search began for a motive.
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MEET THE SCARIEST STATE SENATE CANDIDATE IN MASSACHUSETTS

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By Chip Berlet , Tak Toyoshima
By Chip Berlet Sandi Martinez of Chelmsford is running her fifth state senate campaign by highlighting economic issues. That's quite a change for the hopeful in the Third Middlesex District. In the past, her concerns have included stopping abortions and gay marriage, getting government out of public education, and witchcraft.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Photographer for college newspaper.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Manual and electric!

How is social media changing news?

Making news-gathering more democratic but allowing false information and conspiracy theories circulate widely.

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