Twisted Wire – Subversion and Information Warfare (Part One of an Occasional Series)

There is a moment in the film Wizards of the Kremlin when the protagonist, Baronov, describes information warfare as “twisting a wire”. It doesn’t matter which way you twist the wire, what you believe in, or who is impacted. The brilliance is in finding an opening to insert the twisted wire and start shredding national… Read More Twisted Wire – Subversion and Information Warfare (Part One of an Occasional Series)

September 9, 2026September 21, 2026 Mariyam Hasham

Aum Shin Rikyo: Terrorism in Japanese Cinema

Japanese cinema has a dark, often subversive narrative of violence. In the years since local terrorist group, Aum Shin Rikyo carried out a series of devastating attacks on an unsuspecting urban population, there appears to be an upward trend in violence in Japanese cinema. At a talk at the Japan foundation in London in 2018,… Read More Aum Shin Rikyo: Terrorism in Japanese Cinema

January 26, 2025August 1, 2026 Mariyam Hasham

Stories of the Minotaur: Terrorism as Narrative

Attacks in New York and Washington on 9 11 by a network of operatives from Al Qaeda changed America’s perspective on the terrorist threat. The Pentagon, the nerve center of American military operations around the world, and the twin towers, symbols of America’s global economic power lay in ruins. Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind behind… Read More Stories of the Minotaur: Terrorism as Narrative

January 26, 2025August 1, 2026 Mariyam Hasham

Mindset of Suicide Bombers

In July 2001, the Tamil Tigers celebrated the 18th anniversary of Sri Lanka’s civil war by bombing the country’s only international airport at Kataunayaka. In September 2001 Al-Qaeda operatives brought violence to American shores with devastating attacks in New York and Washington. In Iraq in 2009, a suicide bomber killed Shia pilgrims on a bridge… Read More Mindset of Suicide Bombers

January 26, 2025January 28, 2025 Mariyam Hasham

Propaganda of the Deed: Terrorism as Communication

Terrorism is text, whether it is the printed pamphlets of Sendero Luminoso or the PLO in the 1970s, messages delivered by hooded IRA spokesmen at hastily arranged news conferences in Belfast, or Al-Qaeda leaders issuing proclamations, videos of Osama Bin Laden discussing attacks or pro-violence websites extolling supporters to participate in violence. People do not… Read More Propaganda of the Deed: Terrorism as Communication

January 24, 2025January 28, 2025 Mariyam Hasham

Hollow Places

worlds disordered by terrorism and violence

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