Articles by Yasha Levine
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The Secret Military History of the Internet
The Chris Hedges Report with Yasha Levine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Apr 2025
2 Apr 2025 – The internet, from its inception, was created as a tool of mass surveillance. Yasha Levine traces the origins of the web in his book, “Surveillance Valley,” and how its roots in counter insurgency shape its function today.
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Google’s Earth: How the Tech Giant Is Helping the State Spy on Us
Yasha Levine – The Guardian,
24 Dec 2018
20 Dec 2018 – We knew that being connected had a price – our data. But we didn’t care. Then it turned out that Google’s main clients included the military and intelligence agencies.
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The Invention of Capitalism: How a Self-Sufficient Peasantry Was Whipped into Industrial Wage Slaves
Yasha Levine | The eXiled – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2018
“…everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.” “Poverty is therefore a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society… It is the source of wealth, since without poverty, there could be no labour; there could be no riches, no refinement, no comfort, and no benefit to those who may be possessed of wealth.”
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