Yasha Levine

1 week ago | nefariousrussians.com | Yasha Levine

I was walking around the neighborhood with my friend Joe this weekend. We passed by a 9/11 memorial nearby that’s set up on the grounds of a local Elk’s Lodge. It’s made from a piece of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center. The beam sticks vertically out of the ground and is surrounded by a pentagon (symbolizing the Pentagon that was also attacked). The beam has Christian crosses and Stars of David cut into the top end of it.

1 week ago | nefariousrussians.com | Yasha Levine

We’re doing our second live event in NYC at the KGB Bar — JOURNALISM IS DEAD. WELCOME TO THE AGE OF THE SELF-MADE MEDIA WHORE. June 22, 2025. 7PM. Get your tickets. (As always, haters welcome.)Yasha and Evgenia are joined by veteran journalist Moe Tkacik — cofounder of Gawker’s Jezebel (which was destroyed by Peter Thiel) and now an investigations editor at The Prospect — to discuss a topic they know all too well: the death of journalism and the rise of the self-made media whore.

1 week ago | nefariousrussians.com | Yasha Levine

Last week a young man killed two employees of the Israeli embassy outside a Jewish museum in Washington DC. The mainstream press — and most Jewish American organizations — tried to paint this as a pure act of antisemitism. I wrote last week that the attacker’s motives didn’t appear antisemitic at all. They seemed targeted at Israeli embassy employees. In the last few days, my reading of it has beenborne out. Israel’s ambassador to America confirmed it.

1 week ago | nefariousrussians.com | Yasha Levine

John Dolan (aka the infamous War Nerd) joins us to talk about Philip K. Dick. Some of the topics we discuss: what first got John into Russian culture, sci-fi, growing up in California during America’s golden age, PKD as the 20th century Kafka, American decline, how Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner compares to the original Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, drugs, Gene Wolfe, Jack Vance…and more, including John’s top PKD picks. Subscribe and listen!

2 weeks ago | nefariousrussians.com | Yasha Levine

Ever since Israel started up its genocidal assault on Gaza — with Israelis sadistically reveling in the murder and suffering that they are inflicting with the American government and civil society fully complicit — I had wondered many times when this gruesome violence will start to blow back to people here in the US. America, awash with guns, is primed for political assassinations like no other country on Earth.