Yasha Levine

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Yasha Levine is an investigative journalist and a founding editor of The eXiled Online. His latest book is "Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet."

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Opinion

Noam Chomsky’s Split Personality

Yasha Levine / Truthdig Feb 11, 2026 While not a complete answer, Chomsky’s military-funded work in linguistics offers clues about how he could rationalize a friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Technology

The Vampires Feed on Us When We’re Alone

Yasha Levine / Truthdig Nov 17, 2025 The parasocial technology of artificial intelligence took over where television left off, pushing society even more radically into an atomized configuration. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Los Angeles

Killing California for a Snack

Yasha Levine / Truthdig Jan 11, 2025 A pistachio-farming couple from Beverly Hills have become the face of an ecocidal terraforming program that turned L.A. into a matchbox. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Tea Party Socialism

Yasha Levine / Truthdig Oct 6, 2010 Tea party candidates say big government is tyranny, but they don't object when the tyranny flows their way in the form of taxpayer funded farm subsidies.Tea party candidates say big government is tyranny, but they don't object when the tyranny flows their way. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Tea Party Financiers Owe Their Fortune to Josef Stalin

Yasha Levine / Truthdig Apr 19, 2010 The members of the Koch family, America's biggest financial backers of the tea party, would not be the billionaires they are today were it not for the godless empire of the USSR. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

The Looming Water Disaster That Could Destroy California

Yasha Levine / Truthdig Mar 26, 2010 There's a disaster waiting to happen in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, and a handful of wealthy farmers seem to like it that way. Dig deeper ( 17 Min. Read )

Michele Bachmann: Welfare Queen

Yasha Levine / Truthdig Dec 22, 2009 The anti-government insurrectionist has taken more than a quarter-million dollars in government handouts thanks to corrupt farming subsidies she has been collecting for at least a decade.The anti-government insurrectionist has taken more than a quarter-million dollars in government handouts. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Age Trumps Youth in UC Tuition Dispute

Yasha Levine / Truthdig Nov 25, 2009 Student protesters may think they are simply battling a wasteful, callous government bureaucracy that is more concerned about bailing out Wall Street banks than supporting a frivolous thing like education. But really the fight is about something much more basic and widespread: It is a fight between the young and the old, between California's baby boomer pensioners and everyone under 49.The fight over the 32 percent tuition hike on University of California campuses is about something much more basic and widespread than student protesters may realize. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )