6. To Live and Die in L.A‪.‬ Failed State Update

Yasha Levine is an investigative journalist and the author of Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet (PublicAffairs, 2018). We spoke recently about the response to COVID-19 in the city of Los Angeles, where he currently lives. Since it's Yasha, the conversation quickly turned to surveillance and empire and the fact that the systemic collapse of the USA (ca. 2020) is largely the result of the chickens coming home to roost — as web 2.0 influencer Ward Churchill might say. After taping that call I decided to expand the discussion a bit by bringing on Anne Orchier, an organizer with NOlympics LA, about why the Olympics is bad news and how Los Angeles is, much like the rest of the country, experiencing "disaster capitalism" run amok. 

FAILED STATE UPDATE (the newsletter): https://lennyflatley.substack.com/

NOlympics LA on the web: https://nolympicsla.com/

NOlympics LA Twitter: https://twitter.com/NOlympicsLA

NOlympics LA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nolympicsla/

Yasha Levine on the web: http://yashalevine.com/

Yasha Levine Twitter: https://twitter.com/yashalevine

Yasha's newsletter, Immigrants as a Weapon: https://yasha.substack.com/

 Joseph L. Flatley website: https://www.lennyflatley.net/

Joseph L. Flatley twitter: https://twitter.com/lennyflatley

Music:

"We Care A Lot" by Faith No More

"Chariots of Fire" by Vangelis

"Join the Chant" by Nitzer Ebb

"To Live and Die in L.A." by Wang Chung


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