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Jerusalem Countdown: Christian Zionists and the New Israeli Government

By Bill Berkowitz

…Will Change Your Future, recently announced that he will host the 2009 Epicenter Conference. The confab will “examine several rising global geopolitical and economic crises in light of Bible prophecy.” Scheduled speakers include Rosenberg, the controversial Lt.-General (retired) Jerry Boykin, former commander of the Army’s elite Delta Force and former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, and Pastor Chuck Smith, Bible teacher, author…

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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…ives.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-creating-schedule-f-excepted-service/. [37] Lisa Rein, Josh Dawsey, and Toluse Olorunnipa, “Trump’s Historic Assault on the Civil Service Was Four Years in the Making,” The Washington Post, October 23, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-federal-civil-service/2020/10/23/02fbf05c-1549-11eb-ba42-ec6a580836ed_story.html. [38] Nicole Ogrysko, “Biden repeals Schedule F, overturns Trump workf…

7 Problems with Trump’s Hastily-Tweeted Trans Military Ban

By Sunnivie Brydum

…e transgender community, Trump’s actions today are just one more sign that he will do everything in his power to harm us.” In the interest of full disclosure (something the President might want to study up on, himself), I have spent the past five years reporting on the state of open trans service in the U.S. Armed Forces. At The Advocate, I was the lead reporter covering the slow march toward open service, and in the course of that reportage, I me…

Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…ter Target Systems is GSD Manufacturing, and Blackwater Lodge and Training Center is the US Training Center. In addition, “The company also shed its bear-paw and crosshairs logo, for a stylized rendering of the name ‘Xe.’” Unlike the more famous Prince, as far as we know, Eric Prince is still going by the name Eric Prince. According to the Los Angeles Times, Elsa Prince, Eric’s mother, was a “major proponent” of California’s Proposition 8, giving…

Mike Johnson’s Porn-Monitoring isn’t Just ‘Creepy’ — it’s a Window to the Fascist Desire Driving the White Evangelical Will to Power

By Jessica Johnson

…to porn, not cured. If it can keep men coming back to use its products and services, it doesn’t require a large customer base. Similarly, White Christian supremacy’s strength is not in numbers, but in theological-political devotion and ferocity. On the spiritual battlefield against porn, Johnson is training his son to be a Christian fascist like himself. His fatherly pride over his son’s “clean slate” says more about his investment in Jack’s capac…

Build the Muslim Community Center at Ground Zero

By Donna Schaper

…d. Our armor forgets how to come off. We imagine our security is in bombs and borders when actually it is in risks taken on behalf and towards each other. A community center at Ground Zero is an act of love, hope and forgiveness. We are actually desperate for that center. …

Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

By Sarah Posner

…Islam, also runs Campus Watch, which, along with David Horowitz’s “Freedom Center” and related groups, claim to monitor the supposedly anti-American sympathies of academics who don’t share their views. (Horowitz was also the organizer of “Islamofascism Awareness Week” events on college campuses, which were not about “freedom” but rather portraying those who don’t share Horowitz’s worldview as un-American.) Other players in this orbit include Marti…

Unreleased Religious Freedom Manifesto Isn’t the Culture War Compromise It Hopes to Be

By Frederick Clarkson

…been called into question. It should also be noted that while the Berkley Center’s communications manager has stated clearly that “the American Charter project has never been endorsed or in any way run out of [the Berkley Center] or Georgetown,” the Charter was conceived and drafted at least a year before members of the team disaffiliated, and was contemporaneous with the development of the Religious Freedom Institute, which itself “[grew] out of…

Blankets, Booties, and Jesus: Spiritual War on the Uterus in Rick Perry’s Texas

By Sarah Posner

…ssaging) would be difficult, in part because of the intimate nature of the services the centers provide. “Just gathering the evidence to know what case to bring would be difficult,” said Lynn. “This is a long haul to get from knowing that this is going on instinctively or in conversations and being able to prove that a specific entity used its federal money that was enmeshed with its theological message. That’s a big hurdle. Could it happen? Yes….

Dispatch from Charlottesville: “It Was a War Zone. It Felt Like There Were a Million Nazis.”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…m were gathered outside the church. So in the middle of a peaceful worship service, a prayer service for the city of Charlottesville, I was unable to be present in the work that I had been brought in to do because of safety concerns. Along with that, a member of the so-called alt-right had infiltrated our worship service. And so there were lots of things happening at one time. Security became a real concern; not just for those of us who were in cl…