Drew Favakeh
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Drew Favakeh
@drewfav2.bsky.social
Freelance journalist
The Prospect Hill Foundation has given money to the Arms Control Association and the Union of Concerned Scientists. The Carnegie Corporation of New York has given money to the Arms Control Association. So, how did this NYT article omit details of China's no first use policy?
January 30, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Carnegie gave $300,000 to Outrider Foundation, which also funded this essay. That donation was meant to "provide journalists and editors with training workshops, educational materials, and access to nongovernmental experts to improve overall coverage of nuclear issues."
January 30, 2026 at 9:11 PM
The NYT's obfuscation of China's nuclear weapons ambitions continues in a hawkish opinion article published today titled "Let the Arms Race Begin."
January 30, 2026 at 9:09 PM
A director of the China Center at the Pentagon contractor-funded Hudson Institute argued today in a WaPo opinion article that "military purges" are unique to Communist governments—ignoring the fact this also happens in the US, with Trump's racist military purge and McCarthyism.
January 30, 2026 at 7:29 PM
WaPo's editorial board published an article about the attack on Ilhan Omar in which they called her views "extreme" in the subhed but failed to explain how they are "extreme" in the text. WaPo also ignored Trump's Islamophobic attacks on Omar.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
January 30, 2026 at 7:28 PM
In another update, the NYT wrote that Omar has "come under fire for years, including from President Trump" and that Trump "has singled her out for years" and used the "scandal" to "broadly characterize Somalians."
January 28, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Ilhan Omar hasn’t just been “a frequent target” of Trump as the NYT frames it in an update about the attack on her yesterday. Nor are these just "inflammatory remarks." Trump has made repeated Islamophobic attacks on Omar.
January 28, 2026 at 4:45 PM
We saw similar American exceptionalism framing by NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof, who wrote four days ago that an action by China (military exercise) "elevate the peril" while an action by the US ($11 billion arms sale to Taiwan) that preceded China's action is "deterrence."
January 28, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Nowhere in the NYT article is it noted that Campbell's personal consulting clients at The Asia Group are Lockheed Martin, McKinsey, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, according to his public financial disclosure report: documentcloud.org/documents/20...
January 28, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Campbell concluded that if Trump is "instead just shoring up his political position at home while appeasing China, the costs for Americans now and in the coming decades could be catastrophic."
January 28, 2026 at 4:29 PM
The NYT ran a column today by Kurt Campbell—chairman of The Asia Group and a former deputy secretary of state—who said that the $11 billion arms sale to Taiwan was a "challenge to Beijing", but framed Trump's overall China policy as one of "ambiguity."
January 28, 2026 at 4:28 PM
The NYT noted that "officials, including Ayatollah Khamenei, have blamed terrorist cells tied to Israel and the United States for the uprising and killings"—failing to note that former CIA director Mike Pompeo and the Mossad itself have hinted at the Mossad's involvement.
January 26, 2026 at 5:40 PM
In a long investigation, the New York Times again cited HRANA, and again failed to note its funding from the CIA-linked NED. HRANA is currently counting 2,000+ more dead than Iran.
January 26, 2026 at 5:40 PM
US corporate media continues to cite GAMAAN Institute, despite it having "extensive ties" to "U.S. government-funded organizations, many of which openly advocate for regime change in Iran," according to a Feb. 2025 Noir News investigation. The Wall Street Journal wrote:
January 11, 2026 at 8:05 PM
An article by FDD in the NY Post suggested US and Israeli cyberattacks on the Iranian government.

"Washington should openly back Israeli kinetic and covert operations by using American cyber and intelligence capabilities to degrade the regime’s repression apparatus."
January 11, 2026 at 5:54 AM
Another article by FDD published yesterday in The Atlantic reads: "Never before has the Islamic Republic been so weakened at home and so vulnerable to pressure from abroad. The possibility of overthrowing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s regime is no longer theoretical."
January 11, 2026 at 5:53 AM
Another op-ed by the FDD was published in the WSJ two days ago. It questions whether a "weakened regime" can "hold the line," adding that "foreigners are largely bystanders in such struggles unless they're willing and able to act like imperial powers, as Mr. Trump may discover."
January 11, 2026 at 5:53 AM
The New York Times published an op-ed from a senior fellow at the Washington Institute that called for Western governments to "begin serious policy planning for the possibility of change in Iran." NYT failed to note that TWI is a pro-Israel think tank founded by AIPAC.
January 10, 2026 at 6:41 PM