Yasha Levine is a Soviet-American investigative journalist. He is the author of Surveillance Valley, a book about the forgotten counterinsurgency history of the Internet.

He is the codirector of Pistachio Wars, documentary about Beverly Hills farmers, marketing madness, water privatization, drought, and environmental collapse. Pistachio Wars is set to premier in 2024.

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"Contentious…forceful…salutary."
The New Yorker


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