This article, based on almost eight years of continuous anthropological research amongst the Tuareg people of the Sahara and Sahel, suggests that the launch by the US and its main regional ally, Algeria, in 2002–2003 of a ‘new’, ‘second’, or ‘Saharan’ Front in the ‘War on Terror’ was largely a fabrication on the part of the US and Algerian military intelligence services. The ‘official truth’, embodied in an estimated 3,000 articles and reports of one sort or another, is largely disinformation. The article summarizes how and why this deception was effected and examines briefly its implications for both the region and its people as well as the future of US international relations and especially its global pursuance of an increasingly suspect ‘War on Terror’.
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The making of terrorists
Anthropology and the alternative truth of America's 'War on Terror' in the Sahara
Jeremy Keenan
Benjamin Kuras
In the autumn of 1999, Jews all over the world began to receive an e-mail message stating two pieces of blatant disinformation.
Lauri Rapeli and Inga Saikkonen
democracies have not been tested by pandemics or similar events in the contemporary media landscape, where public opinion can be manipulated through effective spreading of disinformation. Indeed, many observers have characterized the COVID-19 crisis as also
Jodi Dean
, unburied, unmourned. The failure of the federal government, the inadequate planning and preparation, the harsh reality of for-profit healthcare, the confusion and disinformation spreading out of the White House, the incapacity of the political establishment
Latin America and COVID-19
Political Rights and Presidential Leadership to the Test
Brigitte Weiffen
coronavirus. The post of health minister subsequently remained vacant. Rather than seeking responses to the crisis, Bolsonaro politicized it, raising the radical tone and mobilizing his base. This included disinformation campaigns and the spread of fake news
Portrait
Talal Asad
Talal Asad, Jonathan Boyarin, Fadil Nadia, Hussein Ali Agrama, Donovan O. Schaefer, and Ananda Abeysekara
social manipulation through disinformation and big data analytics, and atrocious (lack of) national leadership and global vision in the face of wicked problems such as the coronavirus pandemic and climate change—it would seem that critique of the modern
Ken Stein, Yael Berda, Galia Golan, Pnina Peri, Yuval Benziman, Dalia Gavriely-Nuri, Muzna Awayed-Bishara, and Aziza Khazzoom
to Israeli disinformation and suggests that the Soviets may well have believed the false intelligence regarding Israeli troop concentrations near the Syrian border, which they passed on to the Egyptians. He also documents intentional Israeli
Perilous Navigation
Knowledge Making with and without Digital Practices during Irregularized Migration to Öresund
Nina Grønlykke Mollerup
information does not necessarily equal better information ( González Martínez 2008 ) is important to keep in mind and becomes increasingly relevant as information becomes easier to share. Gillespie et al. (2018) show that “disinformation (lies
Uzi Meshulam and the ‘Mishkan Ohalim’ Affair
The Influence of Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy
Motti Inbari
to let the movement’s members feel that they had been persecuted for their beliefs or to be driven to despair. The fact that the police were able to arrest the leader caused confusion and disinformation, after which those barricaded inside the
Germany
From Civilian Power to a Geo-economic Shaping Power
Stephen F. Szabo
’s Disinformation Campaign,” Transatlantic Academy 2015–2016 Paper Series, No. 6 (Washington, 2016); available at http://www.transatlanticacademy.org/sites/default/files/publications/Meister_IsolationPropoganda_Apr16_web_1.pdf , accessed 24 July 2017, accessed 24
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 38–54