Podcast appearances and mentions of Yasha Levine

In this provocative and deeply analytical conversation, journalist and author Yasha Levine joins Parallax Views to challenge a dominant narrative on both the left and right: that the Israel Lobby singularly controls U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Drawing from his background covering Cold War geopolitics and U.S. information warfare, Levine argues that this viewpoint dangerously simplifies the role of American imperialism—and obscures how nationalism, including Zionism, has historically been instrumentalized by empire. We explore how the U.S. used nationalist movements as tools of psychological warfare against the Soviet Union, and how that framework led Levine to his critique of the “AIPAC as all-powerful” mindset. He explains why this narrative often becomes a convenient scapegoat that distracts from the structural and strategic interests of American power itself. Levine, a vocal anti-Zionist who has unequivocally described Israel's actions in Gaza as genocide, also warns of a future in which the U.S. might decide Israel is no longer geopolitically useful—potentially abandoning it, with consequences for the Jewish diaspora. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/parallaxviews  

Signal (the phone app) has become an obligatory download for every organizer on the Left in the US. But it was funded through one of the American government's propaganda agencies, and the atmosphere it creates is one of a neverending meeting permeated by paranoia. Epic conversation, care of Jemma DeCristo and Ralowe Ampu.  LAGAI—Queer Insurrection! [https://episodes.fm/1653309103/episode/OTIxNTJmOWUtMDAxZi00YjgxLWExZGMtZDJlMzBjN2M0OWMx?view=apps&sort=popularity] Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT!) [https://episodes.fm/1653309103/episode/NDI2Y2VjYTItMjcwNi00MjQ5LWFkZTMtZmQyMjE2YjdjMjQ2?view=apps&sort=popularity] Ruth Wilson Gilmore, scholar recently on Sad Francisco [https://episodes.fm/1653309103/episode/NjQwMzVkZGUtMzU4MC00YjdkLWI5N2MtNzk2MjdmZWM2YjJk] SFPD racist texting scandal, 2015 edition [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/26/san-francisco-police-officers-racist-text-messages-jason-lai] Mentioned in the introduction: "Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet" by Yasha Levine [https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S93C3541049]  "Cloudflare Issue Can Leak Chat App Users' Broad Location" (Joseph Cox, 404 Media) [https://www.404media.co/cloudflare-issue-can-leak-chat-app-users-broad-location] Past episodes with Jemma: "The Twitter Tax Break: How AOC West Sold Out SoMa" [https://episodes.fm/1653309103/episode/MTUxODQwOGEtNDZhYy00YWQ2LWJlZjMtODdiZmNjYmE3OGM2?view=apps&sort=popularity] "Is the Transgender District a Force for Liberation or Gentrification?" [https://episodes.fm/1653309103/episode/YmEyM2FiYzktYTA5OC00ODJkLWE4NjktZTY5YzA3MzlkYTAz?view=apps&sort=popularity] "Trans Black-Palestinian Solidarities" [https://episodes.fm/1653309103/episode/NmYwYTkxYmEtYmYxNS00ZTQxLTk1OWItMzZjNDY3YWMwZDRm?view=apps&sort=popularity] And Ralowe: [https://episodes.fm/1653309103/episode/MmIyMmJiYTgtYjMxZS00MGJjLWFjYTctMTYwOTU1YmQ0YmNl?view=apps&sort=popularity] Referenced:  "Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet" by Yasha Levine [https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S93C3541049]  "Cloudflare Issue Can Leak Chat App Users' Broad Location" (Joseph Cox, 404 Media) [https://www.404media.co/cloudflare-issue-can-leak-chat-app-users-broad-location] Past episodes with Jemma: "The Twitter Tax Break: How AOC West Sold Out SoMa" [https://episodes.fm/1653309103/episode/MTUxODQwOGEtNDZhYy00YWQ2LWJlZjMtODdiZmNjYmE3OGM2?view=apps&sort=popularity] "Is the Transgender District a Force for Liberation or Gentrification?" [https://episodes.fm/1653309103/episode/YmEyM2FiYzktYTA5OC00ODJkLWE4NjktZTY5YzA3MzlkYTAz?view=apps&sort=popularity] "Trans Black-Palestinian Solidarities" [https://episodes.fm/1653309103/episode/NmYwYTkxYmEtYmYxNS00ZTQxLTk1OWItMzZjNDY3YWMwZDRm?view=apps&sort=popularity] And Ralowe: [https://episodes.fm/1653309103/episode/MmIyMmJiYTgtYjMxZS00MGJjLWFjYTctMTYwOTU1YmQ0YmNl?view=apps&sort=popularity]   Support us and find links to our past episodes: patreon.com/sadfrancisco  

Talking to Pistachio Wars co-director Yasha Levine about politics, privatization, and empire in California's water wars.

Laura Jedeed, author of an article for the New Republic, talks about San Francisco and tech moguls' plans to “fix” it. Yasha Levine, co-director of a new documentary, Pistachio Wars, talks about billionaire couple and self-styled philanthropists the Resnicks and their involvement in the California water crisis. Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive online: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/radio.html

Laura Jedeed, author of this article, talks about San Francisco and tech moguls' plans to “fix” it • Yasha Levine, co-director of Pistachio Wars, on the Resnicks and water in California The post Tech bros' plans for SF, the Resnicks and water in California appeared first on KPFA.

We're joined by journalist Yasha Levine & filmmaker Rowan Wernham of the new documentary “Pistachio Wars” join us to look at water in the state of California in light of last week's L.A. wildfires. We discuss California's water history, the network of real estate developers and agribusiness concerns that effectively control California's water, the Resnick family and their Nut Empire, 21st century company towns, and how California water politics affect the Iran Nuclear deal. Watch The Pistachio Wars documentary now: https://www.pistachiowars.com/

For bonus content, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/live-now-special-11972532 This special show on what REALLY caused the LA wildfires features David Sirota, Yasha Levine, Natali Segovia, Steven Donziger, Meagan Day & Josh Olson. David Sirota is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author living in Denver, Colorado. He was nominated for an Academy Award for helping Adam McKay create the story for the film DON'T LOOK UP. Sirota is the founder and editor of The Lever, the creator of Audible's MELTDOWN podcast and . the MASTER PLAN podcast. Natali Segovia (Quechua) is an international human rights attorney who currently serves as Executive Director of the Water Protector Legal Collective. Natali's work focuses on the protection of the Earth and the rights of Indigenous Peoples affected by forced displacement, and human rights violations as extractive industry and mass development projects. Over the past 15 years, her international work has focused on addressing human rights violations as a result of extractive industry and mass development projects in rural, "unseen" areas in countries including Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil. She currently serves on the Scientific Committee of the Monique and Roland Weyl People's Academy of International Law and on the Board of Directors for Indigenous Peoples Rights International. Yasha Levine is a Russian-American investigative journalist, writer, and filmmaker. He's the author of "Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet," "A Journey Through California's Oligarch Valley," "The Koch Brothers: A Short History" and "The Corruption of Malcolm Gladwell." He's the co-host of The Russians podcast and writes at https://yasha.substack.com/ Steven Donziger is a human rights and environmental lawyer who was imprisoned for successfully suing Chevron for poisoning the water in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The prosecution of Steven Donziger, which has been condemned by the United Nations, Greenpeace, Amnesty International, Amazon Watch, and 64 Nobel Laureates, was a literal corporate prosecution. After the Southern District of New York refused to prosecute Donziger, the judge assigned a corporate firm which had represented Chevron to go after him. The judge also made the unusual move of handpicking the judge to oversee the case and chose a judge who is part of the Right Wing Federalist Society which gets funding from.... you guessed it... Chevron! Meagan Day is a writer and editor focusing on class, labor issues, economic inequality, and US politics. She is an editor at Jacobin, where she was previously a staff writer. The author of Maximum Sunlight (2016) and co-author of Bigger than Bernie (2020), her articles have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, and The New Republic In 2022 she addressed the Oxford Union on the topic of the "American Dream" in a global context. Josh Olson is an Oscar nominated screenwriter, writer of the "Bronzeville" podcast, and host of "The Movies That Made Me." Dave and Josh co-hosted the podcasts "West Wing Thing" and "The Audit." ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Independent journalist and producer of the documentary film Pistachio Wars Yasha Levine joins Bad Faith to discuss the billionaire couple that owns most of the water in California & how poor resource management has affected the devastating L.A. wildfires, before jumping into wider-ranging conversation on the state of left politics in the wake of the Bernie movement. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod). Produced by Armand Aviram. Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

Conspiracy theories about weather control and the California Drought don't hold a candle to the grim reality: a cabal of wealthy farmers controlling California's water and committing ecocide. We speak to Yasha Levine and Rowan Wernham about their upcoming documentary, Pistachio Wars, a damning exposé of The Wonderful Company and the billionaire couple behind it: Lynda & Stewart Resnick. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to podcast mini-series like Manclan, Trickle Down, Perverts and The Spectral Voyager: http://www.patreon.com/QAA Pistachio Wars: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pistachio-wars-pay-for-stock-footage / https://filmfreeway.com/pistachiowars / https://x.com/pistachiowars Yasha Levine on Substack: http://yasha.substack.com Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com) https://qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

Pistachio nuts have become a popular snack around the world but a new documentary about where they come from and how they're farmed might make pistachio lovers think again before shelling their next nut. Dunedin film-maker Rowan Wernham has teamed up with US journalist Yasha Levine to tell the story of a bitter battle being waged in California where 90 percent of the world's pistachios are produced. Pistachio Wars is an investigative documentary into billionaire pistachio farmers and water barons Stewart and Lynda Resnick, who it's alleged are fragrantly bending the parched state's political system and privatising water to feed their vast farming empire in the desert.

Marianne Williamson joins the Katie Halper Show to talk about her campaign, and domestic and foreign politics. Then journalist Lev Golinkin joins to talk about Canada's Ukrainian Nazi problem, along with Mark Ames & Yasha Levine. Marianne Williamson is a political activist, author, non-denominational spiritual lecturer and New York Times bestselling author. She began in the 1980's, during which time she became deeply involved with HIV/AIDS activism. A long-time champion for the LGBTQ+ community, she founded Project Angel Food to deliver meals to the homebound unable to shop or cook for themselves. To date, the charitable organization has served over 16 million meals. She also founded the LA Center for Living, the Manhattan Center for Living, and cofounded The Peace Alliance. Williamson has been a non-profit activist throughout her career. She has produced numerous progressive candidate summits and podcasts to encourage more women, LGBTQ+, racially diverse, and progressive Democrats to run for office. Over the years she has lectured to hundreds of thousands of people on spiritually and politically progressive topics, sold over three million books, and has done extensive work with the ill and dying. She has written 15 books, 7 New York Times bestsellers and 4 of them hitting #1. In 2020 she ran for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States, and is now a candidate challenging the candidacies of President Biden and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. As an essential part of her platform Williamson proposes a 21st Century Economic Bill of Rights, a Department of Peace, reparations for slavery, a Department of Children and Youth, and a just transition from a dirty to a clean economy. A progressive Democrat, Williamson proposes a new economic beginning including universal health care, tuition free college and tech school, and a guaranteed living wage. Lev Golinkin is the author of A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka, Amazon's Debut of the Month, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program selection, and winner of the Premio Salerno Libro d'Europa. A graduate of Boston College, Golinkin came to the U.S. as a child refugee from the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkov (now called Kharkiv) in 1990. His writing on the Ukraine crisis, Russia, the far right, and immigrant and refugee identity has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, NBC, The Boston Globe, Politico Europe, and Time.com, among others; he has been interviewed by MSNBC, NPR, ABC Radio, WSJ Live and HuffPost Live. Yasha Levine is a Russian-American investigative journalist, writer, and filmmaker. He's the author of "Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet," "A Journey Through California's Oligarch Valley," "The Koch Brothers: A Short History" and "The Corruption of Malcolm Gladwell." He's the co-host of The Russians podcast and writes at https://yasha.substack.com/ Mark Ames is a journalist and writer who lived in Moscow for 13 years. for He co-hosts the podcast Radio War Nerd with John Dolan. His writing has appeared in The Nation, The New York Press and GQ. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps

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To hear the rest of my discussion with Mark Ames & Yasha Levine, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/mark-ames-yasha-85348916 Mark Ames and Yasha Levine talk about what just happened in Russia. What do we even call it? A coup? A mutiny? What do we need to know about The Wagner Group and Yevgeny Prigozhin? But first Omali Yeshitela, Penny Hess, and Leonard Goodman talk about the indictment of the Uhuru Movement and African People's Socialist Party and why this targeting threatens free speech and The First Amendment. Chairman Omali Yeshitela leads the African People's Socialist Party and the Uhuru Movement. He has organized for black power for over 50 years, beginning with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee registering black people to vote in the '60s. He has traveled the world building the movement for African unification and liberation, establishing relations of solidarity with anti-colonial struggles. He is the primary target of current U.S. government charges of "sowing discord" at the behest of a foreign government. Penny Hess is Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee which she has led since its founding in 1976. She has built an international movement for reparations from the white community, working under the leadership and at the behest of the APSP. She is author of the book, "Overturning the Culture of Violence" and another of the Uhuru 3 facing federal charges. Leonard Goodman is the attorney representing Penny Hess, one of the Uhuru 3. Goodman is a distinguished criminal law attorney based in Chicago who has won high profile and precedent-setting cases including in the U.S. Supreme Court and the Illinois Supreme Court. He is a prolific published columnist covering legal and social justice topics and teaches Federal Criminal Law at DePaul University. Yasha Levine is a Russian-American investigative journalist, writer, and filmmaker. He's the author of "Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet," "A Journey Through California's Oligarch Valley," "The Koch Brothers: A Short History" and "The Corruption of Malcolm Gladwell." He's the co-host of The Russians podcast and writes at https://yasha.substack.com/ Mark Ames is a journalist and writer who lived in Moscow for 13 years. for He co-hosts the podcast Radio War Nerd with John Dolan. His writing has appeared in The Nation, The New York Press and GQ. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/rkEk75Emhy

Matt & David are joined by Yasha Levine (@yashalevine) to talk about Prigozhin's mutiny, Russia, and Putin. You can read more of Yasha's work here: https://yasha.substack.com/ Subscribe to his and Evgenia's podcast The Russians: https://pca.st/lkz89lvn

For the closing episode of 2022, Evgenia and I talked to our good friend Mark Ames.We touch on a bunch of things — The eXile, his escape from suburban California, him going native in Russia and then re-integrating into America. We also talk quite a bit about journalism in America: how we got screwed over for our Tea Party-Koch scoop, how Mark's reporting stopped Larry Summer from becoming US Treasury Secretary, and how the American way of silencing journalists can be more sadistic than the Russian way, which is just to kill them.Happy New Year!—Yasha LevineWant to know more? Check out previous episodes of The Russians.PS: We've published a lot of things this year. A lot of has been related to Putin's cursed invasion of Ukraine. We also did a bunch Soviet and Russian history, things about my own Ukrainian-Jewish family, and Evgenia's essays on Russian political culture. We've also done some great interviews on the politics of technology. Then there's been the stuff about California water oligarchs and the Pistachios War doc that will be finished in the first half of 2023.So to close off the year, I figured I'd go along with media tradition and send out a list of the ten or so things that Evgenia and I published this year that I particularly liked. So here's 2022 in review. The best of a cursed year. In no particular chronological order:* Christmas Special — Immigration, Capitalism, Trans Politics* The Ayahuasca Special* Welcome to the "RuZZkiy Mir" by Evgenia Kovda* “Operation Z”* My Ukrainian grandma and our lost history of pogroms by Yasha Levine* The Jetsonian Left w/Anthony Galluzzo* Escape from Russia* The Politics of Technology w/Joe Costello* Philip K. Dick's fiction is our nonfiction by Evgenia Kovda* The Holodomor and the erasure of Jewish victims by Yasha Levine* Lenin's flesh (and no blood)* Private islands, forgotten California oligarchs, and Jewish converts. Say hello to our ruling class. by Yasha Levine* …and then there's all the rest in our archive. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yasha.substack.com/subscribe

We've talked a lot about the information environment in the West, as it pertains to support for the War and its uncomplicated nature. Yasha and Evgenia of The Russians podcast join Riley and Dan to talk about the other side of that information environment - namely, what is being shown to Russian boomers on TV every day? Where did we get the Z? How have a particular view of history and geopolitical realities interacted to produce a strange outcome? All this and more! Check out their substack to hear more of Yasha and Evgenia, including their podcast The Russians! And check out our Patreon for the full episode, it's www.patreon.com/dabottlemen 

We wanted to hear the perspective of our Russian friends who have been critics of NATO and US intervention in Ukraine, but also oppose Putin's invasion and occupation. Evgenia Kovda and Yasha Levine give their view of the war, the coverage, and the opinions swirling around the crisis. FULL EPISODE here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/russian-anti-war-65293552 Check out their Substack and podcast The Russians here: https://yasha.substack.com/p/the-russians?s=r

For the entire discussion, other bonus content & to help make the show possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to the entire discussion with Yasha Levine: https://www.patreon.com/posts/russian-yasha-on-63047290 Here is a teaser segment of an interview recorded Wednesday evening just before we learned that Putin had invaded Ukraine. Yasha Levine is a Soviet-American immigrant, the author of "Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet," and co-host of the podcast "The Russians." You can find his writing at: yasha.substack.com Follow Yasha on Twitter at: @yashalevine

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In light of... certain articles praising the anti-soviet gumption of a certain politician, we have UNLOCKED the second part of Dan, Riley, and Yasha's exploration of Ukrainian Nationalism in Canada, this time looking more closely at the life and career of our fearless Deputy Prime Minister.

Preview of part two of Dan, Riley, and Yasha's exploration of Ukrainian Nationalism in Canada, this time looking more closely at the life and career of our fearless Deputy Prime Minister. Get the full episode on Patreon! www.patreon.com/dabottlemen 

We're joined by journalist Yasha Levine for part one of a deep dive into the roots of Ukrainian nationalism in Canada

Ben Norton speaks with journalist Yasha Levine about how Silicon Valley has its origins in the US national security and its Cold War on communism. We discuss the links between the United States government and Google, Facebook, and Tor; the far-right anti-China cult Falun Gong; and how Washington rapidly shifted from promoting "internet freedom" to censorship of alternative information. We also talk about Adam Curtis' documentary series Can't Get You Out of My Head, and respond to questions from our patrons on Patreon. Yasha's article "Google has been a military-intel contractor from the very beginning": surveillancevalley.com/blog/google-has-been-a-military-contractor-from-the-very-beginning

Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton speak with journalist Yasha Levine about Russian politics and Alexei Navalny, his political views and xenophobic nationalist history, his Western backing, his own oligarch sponsors, and the elite capitalists who dominate the country's system.

Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton speak with journalist Yasha Levine about racism in Israel, anti-Soviet propaganda, the cold war, the Zionist movement, and weaponization of Russian Jewish immigration.

Lucia, OK and Sarah sit down for an Adam Curtis struggle sesh to study/relax to, tips on keeping sane for when your parents suddenly discover Cuomo is a scumbag, a quick update on the youth (they're still shifting), and the NGO to sociopath pipeline. Please write in if you also think Adam Curtis should have … Continue reading "Episode 115 – Adam Curtis and Chill"

Lucia, OK and Sarah sit down for an Adam Curtis struggle sesh to study/relax to, tips on keeping sane for when your parents suddenly discover Cuomo is a scumbag, a quick update on the youth (they’re still shifting), and the NGO to sociopath pipeline. Please write in if you also think Adam Curtis should have … Continue reading "Episode 115 – Adam Curtis and Chill"

Journalist Yasha Levine, the author of "Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet," joins the "Unauthorized Disclosure" podcast to discuss the final days of President Donald Trump's administration and what we can expect from monopolistic tech companies under President Joe Biden. Yasha comments on the removal of Trump from Twitter and describes why he believes Section 230 should be abolished. Throughout the episode, Yasha grapples with the limits of social media when it comes to politics and organizing communities.

On the brink of homelessness in covid pandemic apocalyptic winter: Yasha Levine's living the eviction nightmare right now, along with millions of other American families whose government has failed them. Imagine if housing was a human right. Instead we see the weaponization of the covid crisis by the elites to prey on the vulnerable. And holy fuck: in-person eviction court proceedings are literally killing people. We'll tell you why. And what does Soviet Russia have to do with the housing we're losing today? The Bitches get historical. Still hoping the Squad in DC will save us? Might have better luck on Nextdoor. And what did we really learn - about ourselves - from Trump's presidency? Plus what's really behind self-described “leftists” oiling up Uncle Sam’s Cold War propaganda machine against China. Want more Yasha? Check out https://yasha.substack.com/ The Left Bitches are Anissa Naouai, Erica Marable, Rania Khalek, and Amanda Getty. Produced by Gregory Haddock with music by Jonathan Hurley. Visit patreon.com/leftbitches for access to extended episodes and bonus content.

We're back!  After a two week break, we're talking about how WWII Nazis, Nazi collaborators, and various fascists from Eastern Europe were allowed to immigrate to the U.S. and Canada, settle, and often received government protection from prosecution and deportation.  Why may you ask? So Western intelligence agencies could use them against the Soviet Union of course!  Specifically I look at three books: 1. Pure Soldiers or Sinister Legion - Sol Littman 2. Wanted!: The Search for Nazis in America - Howard Blum 3. The Belarus Secret - John Loftus  I examine in detail how the Ukrainian 14th Waffen SS Division, the Iron Guard, the Ustashi, and the Belarus SS Brigade survived Soviet punishment thanks to Western intelligence support, funding, and protection. Never forget how much they fear a Workers' State!    CALL OUT FOR GUESTS - Contact me if you know someone or yourself want to be a guest on the Pod. Social Media: Twitter - @thispodispropa Instagram - @thispodispropaganda Youtube - This Podcast is Propaganda  Email - thispodcastispropaganda@gmail.com Libsyn Page -www.thispodispropaganda.libsyn.com   Want to Support the Podcast? You can visit the Pod's Patreon Page: Patreon Link - https://www.patreon.com/thispodispropaganda Visit the Official Merch Shop: Merch Link - https://teespring.com/stores/this-pod-is-propaganda-shop   Show Notes: Guardian Article on Canadian Nazi Monument: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/17/canada-nazi-monument-vandalism-hate-crime Wanted!: The Search for Nazis in America: https://www.amazon.com/Wanted-Search-America-Howard-Blum/dp/0812906071 Research Paper & CIA File on Soobzokov: https://fas.org/sgp/eprint/breitman.pdf  Pure Soldiers or Sinister Legion: http://blackrosebooks.net/products/view/PURE+SOLDIERS+or+SINISTER+LEGION/28319 The Belarus Secret: https://www.amazon.com/Belarus-Secret-Nazi-Connection-America/dp/1557781389 Yasha Levine's Podcast on Ukrainian Nazis in Canada: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/episode-0-alex-boykowich-ukrainian-canadian-left-chrystia/id1498390709

After trawling the depths of Pig Empire history to understand the root causes of fascism in capitalist, western “democratic” societies, our dynamic podcasting duo take a look at the modern era and till the fertile soil of Islamophobia and reactionary American politics to ask a simple but important question – would the American fascism movement we know as Trumpism today, have happened even if Trump had never been born? Spoiler? The answer is "yes.” Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833494-dark-money Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump by David Neiwert: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41099426-alt-america The New Authoritarians: Convergence on the Right by David Renton: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50806653-the-new-authoritarians Right Moves: The Conservative Think Tank in American Political Culture Since 1945 by Jason Stahl: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37688636-right-moves American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America by Chris Hedges: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/544310.American_Fascists Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex by Yasha Levine: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34220713-surveillance-valley Permanent Record by Edward Snowden: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51801330-permanent-record Law and (the Fascist) Order: https://ninaillingworth.blogspot.com/2020/09/article-analysis-law-and-fascist-order.html Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib by Seymour Hersh: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78612.Chain_of_Command The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46039512-the-end-of-the-myth The Culture of Terrorism by Noam Chomsky: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/979381.The_Culture_of_Terrorism Amerikan Musik: Fascism Ascendant in the USA: https://www.ninaillingworth.com/amerikan-musik-fascism-ascendant-in-the-usa/ On Media, White Nationalism & Hugo Weaving: https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2020/09/28/theory-discussion-on-media-white-nationalism-hugo-weaving/ Fascism, White Nationalism and American Values: https://ninaillingworth.blogspot.com/2020/09/Fascist%20and%20American%20Values.html

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Guest: Yasha Levine. We talk about his new series on Substack, titled Immigrants as a Weapon. Yasha refers to this as an “investigative newsletter” about “weaponized immigrants, oligarchs, and the twisted politics of American power”. He refers to himself as “a Soviet immigrant living in an era of American decline” and it speaks for itself as to why his perspective is so perfect for this fascinating topic. At the end of the discussion, there’s an extra segment on surveillance and contact tracing. It’s a separate bonus extra for patrons titled Episode 165 EXTRA Surveillance and Contact Tracing in the Pandemic Era.  Yasha Levine is an investigative journalist and author. Born in Leningrad, he grew up in San Francisco, and just moved back to California. He has reported from all over the world — with a focus on America and the former Soviet Union. He is the author of Surveillance Valley:The Secret Military History of the Internet, a book about the forgotten counterinsurgency origins of the Internet. He’s also working on some documentary projects, including  one about California’s Oligarch Valley. FOLLOW @yashalevine  SUBSCRIBE to his Substack investigative newsletter, Immigrants as a Weapon. Read his book Surveillance Valley and visit his website yashalevine.com Around the Empire is listener supported, independent media. Pitch in at Patreon: patreon.com/aroundtheempire or paypal.me/aroundtheempirepod. Find all links at aroundtheempire.com.  SUBSCRIBE on YouTube. FOLLOW @aroundtheempire and @joanneleon.  SUBSCRIBE/FOLLOW on iTunes, iHeart, Spotify, Google Play, Facebook or on your preferred podcast app. Reference Links: Weaponized Immigrants and the History of America's Imperial Propaganda Machine, Yasha Levine Weaponizing Fascism for Democracy: The Beginning, Yasha Levine  

Yasha Levine is an investigative journalist and the author of Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet (PublicAffairs, 2018). We spoke recently about the response to COVID-19 in the city of Los Angeles, where he currently lives. Since it's Yasha, the conversation quickly turned to surveillance and empire and the fact that the systemic collapse of the USA (ca. 2020) is largely the result of the chickens coming home to roost — as web 2.0 influencer Ward Churchill might say. After taping that call I decided to expand the discussion a bit by bringing on Anne Orchier, an organizer with NOlympics LA, about why the Olympics is bad news and how Los Angeles is, much like the rest of the country, experiencing "disaster capitalism" run amok. FAILED STATE UPDATE (the newsletter): https://lennyflatley.substack.com/ NOlympics LA on the web: https://nolympicsla.com/ NOlympics LA Twitter: https://twitter.com/NOlympicsLA NOlympics LA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nolympicsla/ Yasha Levine on the web: http://yashalevine.com/ Yasha Levine Twitter: https://twitter.com/yashalevine Yasha's newsletter, Immigrants as a Weapon: https://yasha.substack.com/ Joseph L. Flatley website: https://www.lennyflatley.net/ Joseph L. Flatley twitter: https://twitter.com/lennyflatley Music: "We Care A Lot" by Faith No More "Chariots of Fire" by Vangelis "Join the Chant" by Nitzer Ebb "To Live and Die in L.A." by Wang Chung --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/failedstateupdate/message

The ladies talk to journalist and author Yasha Levine about the Russian American immigrant experience and his book Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet.

This week we’re joined by Yasha Levine, author of Surveillance Valley and the investigative series Immigrants as a Weapon. We discuss how government and corporate development of digital technologies work to further American empire, how middle-class notions of privacy and our myopic focus on surveillance stunt other projects and political imaginations, and the history of Soviet Jews and their utility to the American neoliberal project. We close with a discussion of the importance of the USPS and Chapter 12 of The Conquest of Bread, Objections. Subscribe to Yasha’s Substack: https://yasha.substack.comSurveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet: https://surveillancevalley.comPublic outcry over threats to the USPS: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/lamvo/save-us-postal-service-coronavirus-twitter

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We sit down for an epic two-hour episode with the legend Yasha Levine to ramble through American soft power, intelligence technology, Russiagate and more. **PRODUCER'S NOTE**: The canonical numbering scheme has been corrected to account for inflation and bonus episodes.

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Yasha Levine on Chrystia Freeland, Ukrainian Nazis, and the proxy war against Russia. Then, Lizzie O’Shea, author of Future Histories, on fake techno-utopianism and imagining a better future.

This is a teaser preview of part 2 of a two-part episode. Part 1 is free and available to all at https://www.patreon.com/posts/33662570; part 2 is only available to $5/month subscribers at https://www.patreon.com/posts/33663258. Show notes to this episode, if we decide to do any, will eventually be available to Patreon subscribers at patreon.com/champagnesharks. This episode is hosted by T. Today we have on Yasha Levine (http://twitter.com/yashalevine). Yasha Levine is a Russian-American investigative journalist and author. Levine, who was born in the Soviet Union, is a former editor of Moscow-based satirical newspaper The eXile. He is here to discuss his recent book Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N809DBM/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1. Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA (piercedearsmusic@gmail.com). Opening theme composed by T. Beaulieu. Closing theme composed by Dustfingaz (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRazhu_)

This is part 1 of a two-part episode. Part 1 is free and available to all; part 2 is only available to $5/month subscribers over at https://www.patreon.com/posts/33663258. Show notes to this episode, if we decide to do any, will eventually be available to Patreon subscribers at patreon.com/champagnesharks. This episode is hosted by T. Today we have on Yasha Levine (http://twitter.com/yashalevine). Yasha Levine is a Russian-American investigative journalist and author. Levine, who was born in the Soviet Union, is a former editor of Moscow-based satirical newspaper The eXile. He is here to discuss his recent book Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N809DBM/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1. Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA (piercedearsmusic@gmail.com). Opening theme composed by T. Beaulieu. Closing theme composed by Dustfingaz (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRazhu_)

Abby and Robbie Martin interview journalist Yasha Levine about his new project that explores the US empire's weaponization of nationalism and immigrant communities on Media Roots Radio. Check out Yasha Levine's series at https://yasha.substack.com Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon // www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

Jepson student Aaron Gano, ’20, interviews 2019-20 Jepson Leadership Forum speaker Yasha Levine prior to his presentation, "The Internet as a Weapon." November 19, 2019

Full episode https://www.patreon.com/posts/251-weaponized-32230674

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The 2019-20 Jepson Leadership Forum, Digital Dystopias: Truth and Representation in the Internet Age, presents Yasha Levine, Russian-American investigative journalist and author, for a discussion on "The Internet as a Weapon.” Nov. 19, 2019

Journalist Yasha Levine on the “democracy” demos in Moscow: for a flossier neoliberalism. Then, Maria Luisa Mendonça, director of Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos (Network for Social Justice and Human Rights) in Brazil on the Amazon fires: who’s setting them, why, and what can be done.

MintCast hosts Whitney Webb and Alan MacLeod recently interviewed investigative journalist Yasha Levine about his most recent book Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet and his most recent articles on the xenophobia that lies beneath Russiagate and how this new anti-Russia fervor has impacted the Russian-American immigrant community at the national level.In discussing his exhaustively researched book Surveillance Valley, Levine details how the growing nexus between Silicon Valley monopolies like Google and Facebook and the U.S. government as well as today’s scandals over internet surveillance and warrantless spying are actually the logical consequence of the Internet's origins as a U.S. military project aimed at predicting future insurgent behavior by means of covert spying.Also, discussed is Levine’s controversial but invaluable work on the hidden face of the Tor Project, which is included in Surveillance Valley. Levine summarizes his research on the Tor Project, noting that -- far from being the browser that is the ultimate tool against government surveillance -- it has long been funded and continues to receive most of its funding from the U.S. government. In addition, leaders and top advocates of the Tor Project have been caught colluding with the U.S. government, particularly the government agencies funding the project, on more than one occasion, greatly undermining its carefully crafted public image as an anti-government surveillance-busting tool.Lastly, Levine describes his most recent work on the Russiagate scandal, highlighting the often overlooked impact of the media-driven hysteria on Russian-Americans and Russian immigrants to the United States. As Levine notes, much of this rhetoric in recent years has implied that ethnic Russians have undesirable “genetic” traits or are all secretly connected to Russia’s current leader, Vladimir Putin, who is often portrayed by some mainstream media outlets as a supervillain. As a result, Levin argues that many Russian-Americans have become alienated from the Democratic Party and have either embraced Trump or complete disillusionment with both parties.Follow Yasha Levine on Twitter and check out his latest work on his website.Support the show (https://www.mintpressnews.com/donations/)

I had to think a bit about the title of today’s show.  It was spawned by this quite anti capitalist article at The Exiled.  Let me say I feel the author Yasha Levine is coming at things from a leftist … Continue reading →

Aaron calls on his audience to help him procure guests for the show. He also muses on the idea of doing an Age of Transitions 2 video.  topics include: guest interviews, social media, emails, Kai-Fu Lee, AI Superpowers, Yasha Levine, Surveillance Valley, Newt Gingrich, artificial intelligence, deep learning, algorithms, big data, economics, media

Adam and Aaron return for a casual, but serious conversation about digital media, censorship, free speech, and many other overused and misunderstood terms.  topics include: Themes & Memes continues, Alex Jones deplatformed on social media, censorship, fake news, Sandy Hook, lawsuits against Jones, election of Donald Trump, mainstream media, conspiracy ideas going mainstream, more extreme rhetoric gaining more publicity, alt right, alternative media, free speech, censorship, Facebook, YouTube, the Great Purge, social media giants as both public and private entities, Google owning the internet, monopolies, online world, digital media production and distribution, democratization of media, Netflix, military contracts, Apple and FBI, privacy, CIA, big data, targeted ads and searches, mobile device microphones used for targeted ads, normalization over time, Alexa as a character in sitcoms, new advertising, Amazon, 80s cartoons, Ai, convergence, UK Strat Trends report, confusion, Orwellian thought crime, loss of critical thinking, techno-utopians, cybernetics, George W Bush, extreme right and left wing political groups fighting, Lauren Southern and Stephan Molyneux, Surveillance Valley by Yasha Levine  

On surveillance: Mark interviews Yasha Levine, author of "Surveillance Valley" and a Baffler piece on the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). Tomaš Dvořák - "Game Boy Tune" - Machinarium Soundtrack - "Mark's intro" - "Interview with Yasha Levine" - "Your calls and comments 201-209-9368" http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/81998

On surveillance: Mark interviews Yasha Levine, author of "Surveillance Valley" and a Baffler piece on the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). Tomaš Dvořák - "Game Boy Tune" - Machinarium Soundtrack - "Mark's intro" - "Interview with Yasha Levine" - "Your calls and comments 201-209-9368" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/81998

How do we reconcile free speech, internet monopolies and stopping far-right ideas from spreading? That's the question I try to answer with my guest Yasha Levine. Yasha is a journalist and author of Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet. Yasha explains the internet's conception and connection to government and the military, how it's shaping politics, and why he's concerned about internet monopolies' power to censor people - even someone like Alex Jones. Later this week subscribers receive additional analysis and reading based on each week's episode. This week I explore internet censorship and how internet companies have enabled far-right movements to grow. Become a member today to get access to this and other members-only content. If you haven't done so, make sure to subscribe to Family Compact, our new show about Canadian politics. This week we interview the Executive Director of Anti-Hate Canada Evan Balgord, and understand why Toronto police protected white nationalists during a march in Toronto. Spoiler alert - they should not have done it. Show Notes Yasha Levine on Twitter Surveillance Valley - The Secret Military History of the Internet

Get your survival gear and dietary supplements ready, cus we're talking about Alex Jones Listen to an excerpt from tomorrow's podcast with investigative journalist and author Yasha Levine. He explains why the censorship power of big social media companies is so problematic, even when applied to someone like Infowars' Alex Jones. Make sure to rate and review us on your favourite podcast network :) Subscribe to Family Compact, our new show about Canadian politics. This week we interview the Executive Director of Anti-Hate Canada Evan Balgord, and understand why Toronto police protected white nationalists during a march in Toronto. Spoiler alert - they should not have done it.

In Part 2 of our interview with investigative journalist Yasha Levine, we discuss the power Silicon Valley corporations like Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc, are claiming to engage in censorship and how troubling it is to see liberals cheer corporations. Later in the show, Levine recalls attacks he experienced for investigating the Tor Project, a popular tool for protecting one's privacy on the internet. He addresses the issue of journalists and how they should respond to constant surveillance enabled by tech corporations. Levine argues there needs to be a political solution that shifts the culture around privacy, but that cannot and will not come from Silicon Valley.

Hosts Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola interview investigative journalist Yasha Levine about his book, "Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History Of The Internet," which was released this year. There are two parts to the interview. In Part 1, Levine describes how the origin of the internet is rooted in the United States military. It was developed for counterinsurgency and anti-communism efforts. This is a narrative that is typically missing when the history of the internet is told. Later in the segment, Levine gives a brief history of Google and talks about the CIA's support for Google Earth. He also discusses the amazing power that Google's search streams give the corporation. [NOTE: Part 2 will be posted for patrons later tonight. It will be made available for all listeners of the show on Wednesday.]

Yasha Levine is a Russian-born American investigative journalist. He is the author of Surveillance Valley, a book about the forgotten military history of the Internet. See https://yashalevine.com

Abby and Robbie Martin talk about the latest Mueller indictment of 12 alleged Russian intelligence (GRU) agents in relation to the alleged Russian state-sponsored hacking of the DNC and 'meddling' in the 2016 US presidential election. Robbie breaks down the charges and why the indictments aren't meant to actually bring anybody to justice but are instead meant to paint a 'visual narrative' for public consumption (a phrase used by Yasha Levine). They also discuss headlines like Elon Musk donating to the GOP and Ocasio-Cortez’s Palestine controversy. Later Trump's performance at the Helsinki summit and the hysterical media reaction is discussed in detail. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

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Google's contract with the Pentagon for Project Maven — a controversial drone imaging program that uses artificial intelligence — prompted over 4,000 Google employees to sign a petition opposing the project, and about a dozen workers resigned in protest. In response, Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene announced that the contract will not be extended, and that “there will be no follow-on to Maven.” Yasha Levine has covered Silicon Valley for years, and his new book Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet (PublicAffairs, February 6, 2018) details Google's fifteen-year history of selling search, mapping, and satellite imagery services to the Defense Department and a number of intelligence agencies. Levine notes that the complete name of Maven is “Algorithmic Warfare Cross-functional Team: Project Maven” and its purpose is to improve object identification for use in drone warfare. He also wonders how so many Google employees could have been unaware of their company's deep involvement in military contracting through a subsidiary called Google Federal. He explains that Google Federal, based near the CIA in Reston, VA, originated in 2004 with Google's acquisition of a startup called Keyhole. Keyhole was midwifed by the CIA's venture capital operation, In-Q-Tel. Keyhole's CEO, Rob Painter, had deep connections to military and intelligence agencies, as well as to the vendors that compete for intel contracts worth an estimated $42 billion annually; Painter now runs Google Federal. While Levine allows that some Google employees might be unaware of the military and intel work of the company, it's widely known in Silicon Valley that most tech giants are deeply involved in these kinds of government contracts.

The scandal involving Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, and Donald Trump's presidential campaign has roots going back to the 1960s, and the development of the Internet. We speak with Yasha Levine, author of the book Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet.

Today's podcast guest is Yasha Levine, an investigative journalist and the author of the new book “Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet,” which offers a new look at the little-discussed genesis of the very thing that brings my voice to your ears: the Internet. What did Yasha and Kevin discuss? You guessed it: Russia's block of Telegram. Some highlights:*The concepts of “national information security” and “digital sovereignty” *How we ought to know whom to trust when it comes to keeping our online correspondence private*The role American tech giants like Amazon, Google, and Apple are playing in the battle over Telegram*A bit of context to bear in mind when comparing and contrasting the online ecosystems in Russia and the United StatesYou can pick up a copy of Yasha's book, “Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet,” here at Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/Surveillance-Valley-Military-History-Internet/dp/1610398025If you enjoy this podcast, consider pledging a little dough to help with sound recording, editing, and hosting costs:www.patreon.com/kevinrothrockSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/kevinrothrock)

Trump has gone full-on authoritarian in a trifecta of comments and actions. Are you surprised? What's in the News with stories on square root guns, banks scared of crypto, coward cops update, lost money, and US arming ISIS. Also, an Ancap Apps update on why I no longer recommend Tor Browser. Finally, a #NHItsLikeThisToo with some news on liberty in the state! This episode is brought to you by ZenCash, a cryptocurrency that infuses privacy, anonymity, and security done right. Also brought to you by NordVPN, the fastest, easiest to use service to protect your online presence that I've ever seen.   WHAT'S RUSTLING MY JIMMIES Holy shit, guys. I pay so little attention to national politics these days because it has so little effect on me here in New Hampshire, but I could not miss Trumps latest ridiculous totalitarian comments. And, this is the fucking guy that some libertarians, including one of my favorite libertarians, Walter Block, actually supported!   WHAT'S IN THE NEWS In no tolerance, no brains news, a discussion among students at Oberlin High School in Oberlin, La., about a mathematical symbol led to a police investigation and a search of one of the student's homes.   In no shit Sherlock news, Bank of America, one of the world's largest financial institutions, admitted in an annual report that cryptocurrencies are a threat to its business model.   In Coward Cops update news, shortly after I wrote the Jimmies segment in last week's episode about the coward resource officer who hid like a little baby during the school shooting in Florida, it was released that three other Broward County Sheriff's deputies were also outside the school and had not entered.   And, what's worse is that the Miramar Police Department has suspended two officers from their SWAT team for responding to the school shooting without having orders to do so.    In it's only stolen money news, an annual financial report released by the US Treasury this month showed the government lost over a trillion dollars in 2017. That is more than Australia's entire Gross Domestic Product.   In old news news, an extensive field investigation into the origins of Isis' weaponry in Syria and Iraq has found that weapons supplied by the US and Saudi Arabia to the Syrian opposition often ended up in the jihadis' hands, enhancing the “quantity and quality” of their armaments.      ANCAP APPS In an Ancap App update, a piece of software I've recommended in the past has now been moved off of my recommended list. The Tor Project hailed as a bulwark against the encroaching surveillance state, has received funding from a US government agency and cooperates with intelligence agencies. Tor, the free software which enables anonymous communication over the internet, is a “privatized extension of the very same government that it claimed to be fighting,” claims journalist Yasha Levine, who obtained 2,500 pages of correspondence about the project via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.   NEW HAMPSHIRE, IT'S LIKE THIS TOO There have been some interesting updates in New Hampshire that give us even more freedoms in the state. First of all, the New Hampshire House of Representatives passed a bill banning the use of “sobriety checkpoints” by state and local police departments, following long-running criticism that the practice is unconstitutional and ineffective. Secondly, the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted to kill a bill that would have increased oversight for homeschool students. House bill 1263 would have required that homeschool students have their annual assessments reviewed by either state officials or nonpublic school principals.

Robbie Martin interviews journalist Yasha Levine about his new book Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio www.twitter.com/AbbyMartin www.twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

Hello! Ha ha, it totally happened; Bill English quit two weeks after saying he wouldn't. Now a gallery of ghouls compete for his place for the honour of leading a divided party to defeat and another round of soul-searching in 2020. Plus related-to-various degrees; allegations of dimwittery regarding an MP's use of snapchat put the world's worst detectives on the hunt for an antagonist. Trump and Russia and monsters under the DNC's bed. Meanwhile Labour actually appear to be making social progress. Link to War Nerd interview preview with Yasha Levine on the military origins of essentially the entire internet. Yes even that bit. Bumper music; Ty Segall - Every 1's a Winner REM - Crush With Eyeliner MIA - Go Off

Doug interviews two guests. First, Yasha Levine, author of the forthcoming Surveillance Valley, discusses Russia, the NSA, and the Intercept election hacking leak. Then, Angela Nagle, author of Kill All Normies, chronicles the alt-right's rise.

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