23Mag/26

San Diego Mosque shooting: more than just accelerationism – by S. Lucini, A. Pugnana

nihilism, Terrorgram, Terrorism

On 18 May, at the Islamic Centre of San Diego (ICSD), California, Cain Clark and Caleb Vazquez, aged 17 and 18 respectively, carried out a shooting that left three people dead. The two teenagers subsequently took their own lives. Both the attack and their suicides were livestreamed. The attackers’ modus operandi, their clothing, the customisation of their weapons, and the existence of a manifesto clearly highlight the presence of influences from the extreme-right accelerationist ecosystem. However, reducing the case exclusively to the extreme-right milieu would risk offering a partial interpretation of the phenomenon.

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22Mag/26

L’attentato di Modena insegna – by Marco Lombardi

Terrorism, ,

L’attentato di Modena è un’occasione importante per una riflessione attenta. Ci aiuta il partire dal presupposto che “non c’era alcuna buona ragione per pensare che non sarebbe successo” a Modena o altrove in Italia, perché si tratta di un attentato sviluppato con una modalità operativa da anni “viralizzata”: oggetto di specifica propaganda da parte del terrorismo, soprattutto jihadista, quale strumento facile e poco costoso (automobile ariete sulla folla e poi utilizzo del coltello da parte dell’attaccante) da imitare.

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20Mag/26

Threats Beyond the Screen: The use of gaming platforms for the creation and dissemination of ‘Gaming-Jihad’ propaganda – by G. L. Giardini and A. Bolpagni

Islamic State, Salafi-Jihadi groups, Salafi-jihadi movements,

In the last ten years, gaming has emerged as one of the most efficient youth-appealing alternative propaganda to the canonical Salafi-jihadi audiovisual material, with particular respect to the Islamic State (IS) communicative flow.

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17Mag/26

Modena: Anche senza ideologia, resta la grammatica del terrore – by S. Brzuszkiewicz

Uncategorized

Le prime ricostruzioni sul caso di Modena sembrano allontanare, almeno sul piano investigativo e giuridico, l’ipotesi di un attentato terroristico in senso stretto. Eppure, limitarsi alla dicotomia terrorismo sì/terrorismo no oscura un elemento cruciale: anche in assenza di radicalizzazione conclamata, le modalità dell’azione richiamano in maniera più che evidente repertori ormai tipici del terrorismo contemporaneo.

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15Apr/26

Understanding Media Jihad: the forthcoming Routledge book by Professor Miron Lakomy (Italian and English Edition) – by ITSTIME

Al-Qaeda, Islamic State, Salafi-Jihadi groups, Salafi-jihadi movements, Security, Terrorism

Towards the end of 2026, the new book by ITSTIME Senior Fellow Professor Miron Lakomy, entitled Understanding Media Jihad, will be released. The volume will offer a comprehensive examination of how Salafi-Jihadi groups exploit the Internet as an instrument for strategic communication and propaganda dissemination.

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06Apr/26

Le incognite dello scenario attuale: la geopolitica del caos – by Joel Terracina

Policy

Le relazioni internazionali stanno attraversando una fase turbolenta caratterizzata dalla rottura del fragile equilibrio che regolava il sistema stesso[1]. Come ha affermato Valori nella sua opera “Intelligence e Geopolitica” (https://www.store.rubbettinoeditore.it/catalogo/intelligence-e-geopolitica/ ), stiamo assistendo a un vero e proprio sgretolamento e alla continua ricomposizione dei blocchi strategici e geopolitici formatisi alla fine della guerra fredda.

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02Apr/26

Blackouts and Technosocial Vulnerability. Information, Public Security, and Resilience in the Age of Interdependencies – by G. Buoncompagni

Research, ,

We live in entropic societies in which security increasingly unfolds within the invisible terrain of technosocial interdependencies.

Energy, digital, and communication infrastructures do not merely constitute the material support of everyday life; rather, they represent its deep architecture, to the point that their continuity is perceived as natural, almost taken for granted. It is precisely this apparent invisibility that renders them critical: when they fail, as in the case of blackouts, the result is not simply a technical disruption but a genuine systemic rupture that simultaneously affects the economy, social relations, meaning-making processes, and public order.

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