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Search results for "radical right" ...
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The Fall of the House of Bush
Unger's book "examines how and why America took a radical turn to the right under George W. Bush thanks to the coming together of two powerful historic movements, neoconservatism and the Christian Right." It also examines how these two movements influenced the White House and the decision to go to Iraq.
Tags: Iraq; politics; George W. Bush; Dick Cheney; IA; war; Christianity; Christian right; neoconservatism; government; intelligence agency
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Takings Initiatives Accountability Project: The Center for Public Integrity investigates ballot initiatives that would radically change land-use and environmental regulation in five Western states
The [non-partisan]Center for Public Integrity investigated 2006 "ballot initiatives that were designed to radically change land-use and environmental regulation in five Western states. They discovered that a trio of "secret donors" accounted for 99% of the propostions' bankrolls, and some of the initiatives did not comply with campaign-finance and other regulations. Then the Center revealed that 85 percent of the funding was coming from a single wealthy real estate investor and Libertarian activist, Howard RIch All but the Arizona inititative failed at the ballot. The Center for Public Integrity set up a stand-alone website-- www.takings initiatives.org-- and filed more than 50 articles on it. "Our general practice-- and a novel one as far as we can tell-- was to mount verbatim transcripts of the interviews on our website, including audio recordings where available. We sought to allow proponents, opponents funders and experts to have a chance to present their side of the story in their own words." The Center also checked with state and federal regulators for compliance of relevant laws and regulations.
Tags: Takings Initiatives; takings clause; ballot initiatives; land-use regulation; environmental regulation; tax-exempt organizations; Howard Rich; Andrea Millen Rich; Council for Responsible Government; William A. Wilson; state campaign-finance filings; public records requests; state freedom of information requests; America At Its Best; Americans for Limited Government; John Tillman; Howard Ahmanson; Fieldstead & Company; property rights; prefessional signature-gatherers; Colorado At Its Best; term limits; nonprofit advocacy organizations; Sam Adams Alliance; Sam Adams Foundation; Legislative Education Action Drive; Parents in Charge Foundation; Social Security Choice.org; Illinois Charitable Trust Bureau; educational vouchers; tuition tax credits; National Taxpayers Union; First Class Education; Susquehanna International Group; Jeffrey YAss; Cato Institute; Alliance for School Choice; Decision Education Foundation; Eric Brooks; Susan Mitchell; Pete Sepp; Kern Family Foundation; Generac Power Systems, Inc.; Milton Friedman; Taxpayer Bill of Rights; TABOR; Laird Maxwell; This House is MY Home; John Whitehead; Lower Manhattan Development Corporation; Exoxemis, Inc.; Family Farm Preservation Pact; Citizens for Community Protection; Kelo v. City of New London; eminent domain; New York Millionaires Assistance Act; Wallace Global Fund; Nicholas C. Dranias; PRNewswire; Eric O'Keefe; getliberty.com; George Soros
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A House Divided; The War Within
Beirich and Potok report on the takeover of the Sons of Confederate Veterans by extremist hate groups directed by "a white supremacist lawyer and long-time radical right activist named Kirk Lyons." As a group of extremists has taken control of the board of the "heritage organization" with more than 30,000 members nationwide, the stories warn that some might abandon SCV.
Tags: racism; Civil War; discrimination; Confederate battle flag; minorities; African-Americans; soldiers
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Accounting gets radical
This Pre-Enron scandal article discusses investors worrying that the accounting industry was not measuring the right things. Baruch Lev, a professor of accounting at NYU, wanted to change the system to more accurately reflect the information investors need.
Tags: accounting; SEC
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Shadow Wars
The Joplin Globe delves into the past of Timothy McVeigh, the man believed to have masterminded the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. The Globe uncovers some facts that suggest that McVeigh wasn't alone when he bombed the building -- and that he "may have been a member of a radical right-wing group of bank robbers known as the 'Midwest Bank Bandits' who were attempting to spark a race revolution."
Tags: Oklahoma City bombing; Timothy McVeigh; terrorism; right-wing; Midwest Bank Bandits
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Ordained by hate
The Joplin Globe reports on how "a sect of supremacists is sowing the seeds of racism in the farmlands of Southwest Missouri." The story depicts the radical beliefs preached by an extremist white-only group called Church of Israel. Women who fall into the organization's subculture are victimized as "breeders," and their children grow up without normal socialization, some becoming criminals in their adult lives, the reporter reveals. Another part of the investigative package discovers that the church owns nearly 1,400 acres in northeastern Vernon County in Missouri. Although the church has dropped its status as nonprofit, it still does not pay taxes on its property. A deed filed decades ago purports to give ownership over 411 acres to the Church of Christ, but the document turns out to be bogus.
Tags: cults; radical right; domestic terrorism; FBI; Centennial Olympic Park bombing; violence Ku Klux Klan; pastors; the Church of Our Christian Heritage; anti-Semitism; Christian Patriot Movement; racism
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Threat from Within
MSNBC reports on the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing. Since then, "...home-grown acts of terror, particularly those committed by factions of the radical right similar to those responsible for Oklahoma City, have not gone away - and have, if anything, grown dramatically in frequency."
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Dark Side of Rev. Moon
A profile of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Korea-based Unification Church. Moon is tied to several conservative political and religious leaders, including former President George Bush, Nazi war criminals, Latin American military dictators and Jerry Falwell.
Tags: conflict of interest; religion; Latin America; Radical Right; Republican Party
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The Spokesman-Review finds that a small group of right-wing radicals, operating in leaderless cells, are committing crimes across the United States in a violent pattern that is going largely unnoticed. (December 29 - 31, 1996)
Tags: Morlin Barker The war within Contest entry Patriot groups 51 pgs.
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Off the Grid
The Times looks at James (Bo) Gritz, a leader of the radical right-wing survivalist movement, and others who live in northern Idaho proclaiming sovereignty from the U.S. government and professing survivalism, tax protest, apocalypse and conspiracy theories. Randy Weaver and Ruby Ridge are also discussed in this close-up of militia groups and how they base their actions on bible scriptures. (Jan. 8, 1995)
Tags: Weiss Off the Grid Aryan Nations The Order FBI Coeur d'Alene New World Order 18 pgs.