Yasha Levine
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Past articles by Yasha:
Pando: Silicon Valley welcomes the Indian Prime Minister!*
* And promises not to mention the pogroms, or the human rights abuses, or the State Department visa blacklisting. Whatevs! → Read More
Pando: A Journey Through Oligarch Valley, Pt 5: Resnicks (Exit 253)
The economic viability of this piece of Oligarch Valley depends on Iran being kept in a state of a permanent economic blockade. → Read More
Pando: A Journey Through Oligarch Valley, Pt 4: Moron (Exit 225)
Taft is an oil town, swept up in the toxic fracking revolution that’s taking the U.S. energy sector by storm. → Read More
Pando: A Journey Through Oligarch Valley, Pt 3: Septic Tank (Exit 244)
Green Acres is not so much a farm, as a place where the great big city of Los Angeles dumps just about all of its shit. → Read More
Pando: Today on Twitter: The US Ambassador and the fascists
I’m writing my Surveillance Valley book, but I just can’t help but peer from time to time at the giant catastrophe taking place in my ancestral homeland of Ukraine. → Read More
Pando: A Journey Through Oligarch Valley, Pt II: Tejon Ranch (Exit 215)
Tejon Ranch shows how a small clique of lowkey aristocratic families continue to plunder California, all because one of their ancestors got here earlier than anyone else. → Read More
Pando: A journey through Oligarch Valley
I head up California's I-5 to discover the putrid truth lurking beneath Central Valley. → Read More
Pando: The CIA helped sell a mapping startup to Google. Now they won't tell us why
Agency denies my FOIA request, telling me they can "neither confirm nor deny" existence of documents explaining the deal. → Read More
Pando: "We got geeks": Inside Google's ugly war against the homeless in LA
In Los Angeles, Google has a brilliantly simple plan to combat homelessness: Hire private security to harass and push the homeless out sight, and then make sure that the smelly bastards and their tents and carts never come back. → Read More
Tor reportedly hires Verizon's PR firm to fight back against Pando's reporting
Over the past six months, I've published a series of stories on the longstanding and deeply conflicted financial relationship between the Tor Project and various arms of the U.S. National Security State. → Read More
Internet privacy, funded by spooks: A brief history of the BBG
For the past few months I've been covering U.S. government funding of popular Internet privacy tools like Tor, CryptoCat and Open Whisper Systems. During my reporting, one agency in particular keep... → Read More
Support Yasha Levine's "Surveillance Valley" — a book about how Silicon Valley created the world's most effective surviellance apparatus
As regular Pando readers know, for the past year-and-a-half I've been covering the "Surveillance Valley" beat — investigating the for-profit surveillance business that powers Silicon Valley and the way this technology is increasingly being used to monitor and control our lives. → Read More
How leading Tor developers and advocates tried to smear me after I reported their US Government ties
“I ontract for the United States Government to build anonymity technology for them and deploy it.” — Roger Dingledine, cofounder of Tor, 2004 * * * About three months ago, I published an article exploring the deeply conflicted ties between agencies of the U.S. → Read More
Refugees, neo-Nazis, and super patriots: Heading into the Ukrainian war zone
CHUGUYEV, UKRAINE — It's just before noon on August 29 when we pull into a dilapidated military depot filled with Ukrainian armor, sitting just south of Kharkov and a couple of hours north of the r... → Read More
Welcome to The Luhansk People's Republic: Following the Russian convoy into rebel-held Ukraine
IZVARINO, LUHANSK PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC — It's around 12:30 pm and pushing 100 F when Russia’s humanitarian aid convoy finally starts rumbling across the Russian border and into rebel-held Ukrainian te... → Read More
Hall of Mirrors: Wikileaks volunteer helped build Tor, was funded by the Pentagon
Last week, I wrote an article about the Tor Network, an anonymity tool developed, built, and (currently) financed by the US National Security State: the Pentagon, the State Department, and a CIA sp... → Read More
Hall of Mirrors: Wikileaks volunteer helped build Tor, was funded by the Pentagon
Last week, I wrote an article about the Tor Network, an anonymity tool developed, built, and (currently) financed by the US National Security State: the Pentagon, the State Department, and a CIA sp... → Read More
Peeling the onion: Almost everyone involved in developing Tor was (or is) funded by the US government
“The United States government can’t simply run an anonymity system for everybody and then use it themselves only. Because then every time a connection came from it people would say, “Oh, it’s anoth... → Read More
Why's Google aligning itself with hated ISPs? It plans on being one of them
Remember Occupy Google, the gaggle of protesters whose struggle for a Free Internet involved trying to squat on a chunk of Google HQ's vast manicured lawn? They were a somewhat confused bunch of ki... → Read More
No, Facebook doesn't need better "self-regulation." We need better laws to protect us from Facebook
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum... ...Dave Winer, blog pioneer and arbiter of all that is right ... → Read More