Christopher C. Harmon

Tag: propaganda

  • HAMAS Media in Gaza: Still Audible?

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    January 2, 2024 A notable gap—in all the recent coverage of Gaza—is news about HAMAS media organs of the most traditional types: radio and TV.  It seems likely that their studios in Gaza City are rubble heaps; it seems just as likely that some service airs at some times from hidden locations, mobile transmitters, webpages,…

  • Modern Terrorist Propaganda Summer Seminar and Training

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    Terrorist groups have used a fantastic variety of means to seize attention, explain themselves, and seek recruits and support: song and speech, “guerrilla theater,” leaflets, radio, cable TV, newspapers, print ads, books, videos, web sites, e-zines… Social media is only their latest endeavor. This training will cover the modern terrorist propaganda techniques being used today…

  • Maoist Revolutionary War Outside China

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    Dr. Christopher C. Harmon discusses “Maoist Revolutionary War Outside China,” a topic on which he is offering a class at IWP (IWP 706) https://www.iwp.edu/courses/maoist-revolutionary-wars-outside-china **This event is part of IWP’s China Series, organized by the China/Asia Program.** About the Lecture: The ideas of Mao tse Tung had a powerful impact—whatever one may think of their…

  • The Timing of Terrorism: The Obsessions with Dates

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    The Timing of Terrorism: The Obsessions with DatesBy Christopher C. Harmon This month is the black anniversary of September 11, 2001. It has many meanings for us, but was that date in particular selected by Al Qaeda? A few suggest there is a link to the last day of battle in 1683 at the gates…

  • Terrorist Advocacy and Propaganda (IWP 686)

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    Dr. Christopher C. Harmon discusses his course on Terrorist Advocacy and Propaganda (IWP 686, 2 credits). Course Objectives: Terrorism has been well-defined as “the deliberate and systematic murder, maiming, and menacing of the innocent to inspire fear for political ends” (Jonathan Institute, 1979). Because terrorism always has a political character, it is not only action…

  • Propaganda at pistol point: The use and abuse of education by leftist terrorists

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    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10584609.1992.9962931 The common tendency to speak and write of terrorists as “mindless,” and to either dismiss or dread them accordingly, is inappropriate. Many leftist extremists are deadly serious about their ideas. Most group leaders of the last three decades have been college‐educated at a minimum; many have professional backgrounds as teachers, college professors, writers, lawyers,…