Stories by Frederick Clarkson
Frederick Clarkson is the co founder, with Bruce Wilson, of Talk to Action. He is an independent journalist, author and lecturer who has written about politics and religion for twenty five years. He is the editor of Dispatches from the Religious Left: The Future of Faith and Politics in America.
Posted on Jan 29, 2012, Source: AlterNet
A prominent Kansas elected official has made news in recent weeks after an email he passed around seemed to pray for the death of President Obama.
Posted on Sep 1, 2010, Source: Talk To Action
We have entered the era of cyber-organizing by the religious right, and Newt Gingrich, futurist, is all over it.
Posted on Dec 25, 2008, Source: The Public Eye
The Christian right has launched a permanent religious war to thwart, and even to roll back, advances in civil rights.
Posted on Aug 20, 2002, Source: In These Times
The former labor secretary makes a bid for the Massachusetts governor's mansion in the hopes of reviving the progressive wing of the Democratic party.
Posted on Apr 26, 2000, Source: deleted
Will Ralph Reed go down in history as the mastermind of a series of federal crimes designed to advance the fortunes of Republican politicians and crony consultants? While ongoing federal investigations and lawsuits signal this possibility, you would never know it from the press coverage Reed received when he stepped down recently as executive director of the Christian Coalition. There is both much more, and much less to the story than meets the eye.
Posted on Apr 26, 2000, Source: deleted
Excerpted from "Revolutionary Cookbooks and Theocratic Revolution," by Frederick Clarkson: "While the trial of alleged Oklahoma City bomber Tim McVeigh has focused national attention on the threat of neo-nazi violence in the U.S., there is much more far-right violence in the United States than is generally reported. From bombings to political assassination, these crimes are less often the acts of "lone nuts" and more likely to be the result of cold calculations of people acting on their ideas."
