Gli arresti dei tre palestinesi a L’Aquila, membri dell’unità “Tulkarem-Risposta Rapida” delle Brigate al-Aqsa risvegliano l’attivismo del terrorismo palestinese legato all’organizzazione al-Fatah, quando tutti gli occhi erano puntati su Hamas in seguito all’eccidio perpetrato dall’organizzazione terrorista di stampo islamista lo scorso 7 ottobre nel sud d’Israele.
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Shortly after the clashes in Ukraine, the apparently silent Israeli-Palestinian conflict reignited, at least in the Western media. A few months later, more blood, death and hostages between polarised information and a desperate plea for peace. Diversity has historically been a potential source of friction and misunderstanding.
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L’attentato estremista di lunedì 16 Ottobre a Bruxelles che vede la morte di due turisti svedesi ha riacceso l’attenzione sulla questione sicurezza e rischi attentati in Europa.
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During the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, PMC Wagner exploited online and offline support of some military groups, including:
All these units were orbiting around the PMC Wagner as embedded support groups. Starting from their online propaganda we theorized a pro-Wagner alliance system (figure 1).
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The recent earthquake in Turkey has created a wave of international sympathy, with people sending help from countries all over the world. Greece, a country whose relations with Turkey have been characterized by longstanding (and recently escalating) tension, was one of the first to send help and this may better the situation between the two countries[1]. At the same time inside Turkey, everyday people but also celebrities are showing solidarity[2]. Continue reading
The Wagner propaganda ecosystem is fragmented and made up of different actors that we have categorized. We identified a “top-down” propaganda architecture, composed of different materials disseminated by the leadership of the Wagner company, exploiting traditional media such as television, movies, events, and newspaper. Examples of this are the construction of the Wagner Center in St. Petersburg and movies produced by Aurum Production owned by Prigozhin.
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The examples of genocide or individual cases of hate crimes are rather recent episodes and mainly concern the re-emergence of attitudes of racism and xenophobia. Among the phenomena of hostility and aggression towards ‘others’, anti-Semitism is a particular phenomenon that has been growing in recent years throughout Europe. It is in fact an ancient hatred, the ‘longest’ in the history of mankind, expressed towards Jews as such (or as Jean-Paul Sartre already observed, often even in the absence of Jews), but which today takes on new faces and characters depending on the social, cultural, and political context in which we live. Especially in the period around 27 January each year, Remembrance Day, there are punctual acts of anti-Semitism, even in Italy.
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La bibliografia sulla storia, protagonisti e discipline dell’Intelligence proposta dal Sistema di Informazione per la Sicurezza della Repubblica. Continue reading
The built heritage of European cities is exposed to various hazards of different nature – natural events such as floods or earthquakes but also man-made threats. The escalation of terrorist attacks conducted in urban environments against soft targets necessitates the development of guidelines for the antiterrorism design of buildings and public spaces. Continue reading
Giovanni Giacalone di Itstime è entrato a far parte dello Europe Desk (Italy) del think-tank britannico di contro-terrorismo Islamic Theology of Counter-Terrorism-ITCT quale analista per l’estremismo islamista e il jihadismo in Italia Continue reading
Throughout the U.S. there is turmoil due to the death of George Floyd, attributed to the murderous act of a police officer, already arrested and charged. Reactions have ranged from peaceful demonstrations to serious riots in several cities. Events like burning down police stations and vehicles, as well as vandalisms, looting, clashes with law enforcement, etc have created the background for violence connected with further loss of lives. Continue reading
L’avvento e la diffusione globale delle tecnologie informatiche hanno imposto l’elaborazione di complesse e sofisticate dottrine di cybersecurity da parte degli Stati nazione, al fine di assicurare la sicurezza nazionale nella cosiddetta quinta dimensione della conflittualità. Continue reading