Freelance journalist and media critic with a focus on foreign policy
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Drew Favakeh retweeted
A leader of two failed military coups is being returned to Venezuela to promote democracy
Drew Favakeh retweeted
Huge news for Latin America, and the world:
Lula da Silva has won reelection in Brazil, despite blatant electoral meddling by the US.
Brazil is the biggest country in Latin America, a major geopolitical power, and a founding member of BRICS.
The US empire wanted to put back in power the corrupt, far-right Bolsonaro dynasty, which is extremely pro-US and pro-Israel.
The Bolsonaros vowed to minimize Brazil's role in BRICS, serve the interests of Brazilian oligarchs and big landlords at the expense of the working class, uphold the global US dollar system, and let US corporations plunder Brazil's natural resources -- especially its rare earths and critical minerals, which the US wants to reduce its reliance on China.
In contrast, Lula comes from a poor family and has always put the interests of the working class first. He has a non-aligned foreign policy, 100% supports Palestine, strongly believes in the importance of Global South integration and cooperation, and was a co-founder of BRICS.
Lula will deepen Brazil's partnership with China and the rest of the Global South. He will also continue to push for the transformation of the international financial system and will challenge the global dominance of the US dollar, which infuriates Washington.
Drew Favakeh retweeted
María Corina Machado returned to Venezuela to a small crowd of just a few party supporters, in what looked like a church. It is worth remembering that she called for sanctions and military intervention. She is a Zionist who comes from a wealthy family.
Drew Favakeh retweeted
Brazil's largest polling company has called the election for Lula.
The Workers Party have won re-election, defeating the US & Israeli regimes who launched an unprecedented campaign of election of meddling. Brazilians are on guard against any last minute foul play.
Lula vira, bate Flávio Bolsonaro e se reelege para inédito 4º mandato, projeta Datafolha. Vitória ocorre após dia tenso da eleição, com STF adiando pela primeira vez a votação em todo o país.
📲Leia mais na #Folha: mla.bs/bd311db4ac
📷 Marlene Bergamo/Folhapress
Drew Favakeh retweeted
Guys, we’re reaching levels of liberal contradiction heretofore thought impossible. The first ethnic cleansing campaign in human history where the party being ethnically cleansed fighting back is labeled a “criminal act” by nominal allies, hell yes
Drew Favakeh retweeted
NYT does a half hour podcast on Israeli elections with @halbfinger in which no one thinks Palestinian citizens of Israel, over 20% of the population, warrant a single mention. Literally not a single word: pca.st/episode/81d94a45-85d6…
Drew Favakeh retweeted
🚨 A UK defence editor had information that UK Special Forces operating in Central America were involved in the US kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro in Jan 2026
Article was never published after UK military's 'D-Notice' censorship body told the editor to spike it
Drew Favakeh retweeted
📍CHICAGO SHOWED UP TO DEMAND AN END TO THE WAR ON IRAN!
Community members in Chicago rallied outside Senators @SenatorDurbin and @SenDuckworth office as part of a nationwide day of action spanning 37 cities, backed by more than 90 organizations demanding an end to the illegal U.S. war on Iran.
Congress has the power to end this war, and we're holding our elected officials accountable until they use it.
No more blank checks for war!
Major report by Drop Site News. "A senior Iranian official told Drop Site that Tehran’s current internal intelligence assessment indicates a high likelihood that large-scale bombing may even begin before Tuesday’s Israeli elections."
⚡️NEW from @DropSiteNews: The War Tehran Believes Is Coming
Iran believes the U.S. and Israel may strike before the midterms. Top security official Gen. Mohsen Rezaei tells Drop Site Iran has new targets in its sights.
By @jeremyscahill, @peimansalehi_, and @ryangrim
dropsitenews.com/p/iran-war-…
Drop Site reported that "Tehran believes Israel would be tasked with firing the first shots, the senior Iranian official said, aimed at '“destroying Iran’s newly deployed air defense systems, in order to open the path for American bombers.”'
Drop Site noted that the "White House denied it was planning to strike Iran in the next two weeks," but that a "U.S. official confirmed to Drop Site that military assets are being moved rapidly into place in preparation for an expected green light from Trump."
Drew Favakeh retweeted
If a Somali commits a crime in Minnesota he’s Somali but if he saves 20 kids on a runaway school bus he’s a Minnesota Man
A Minnesota man is opening up after he saved nearly 20 children when their school bus driver suffered a medical emergency.
Read more: abcnews.link/t1I488m
In early 1977, the New York Times closed its bureau in Tehran, which left the paper with no reporters in Iran. 1977 was a significant moment in Iran’s history; political opposition was gaining momentum and the US had an “unprecedented economic and strategic relationship” to Iran:
The consortium agreement of 1954 gifted Iran’s oil to Western oil companies (including 40% to massive American oil companies and 40% to British Petroleum). Media greeted this agreement, didn’t raise questions about its fairness and generally portrayed it “as a boon for all.”
In 1954, the Shah and his PM Zahedi moved to restore Iran’s ties with the West and the US. Earliest press coverage of this shift was “uniformly favorable”:
Drew Favakeh retweeted
The Korean War often goes by the moniker "Forgotten War." I have always thought that requires a caveat. The US has forgotten its atrocities and its genocide of 3-5 million Koreans. It has never forgotten its hatred of the DPRK or the Korean people.
Drew Favakeh retweeted
Ro, what do you mean Israel needs “new leadership”? All of Netanyahu’s major opposition have pledged to defend the settlements. The only differences are cosmetic and about disciplining the more vulgar elements around the margins. All the opposition also supports genocide in Gaza.
I am waiting for @netanyahu and @Isaac_Herzog to pipe in calling Brad Lander a liar who is staging a photo up. Or maybe Mr. Witkoff will be brazen enough to compliment Netanyahu & Herzog as great humanitarians like Putin & Trump.
The world needs a new generation of leadership!
Drew Favakeh retweeted
Through its attorneys, @BTnewsroom has now issued an official response to the congressional witch hunt led by Rep. Jason Smith. An excerpt:
“Threatening compulsory depositions of journalists and newsroom staff to compel document production operates as coercive retaliation by explicitly targeting the core editorial leadership and journalistic staff of BreakThrough News. Allowing a congressional committee to haul journalists into deposition rooms to grill them on domestic and foreign policy reporting sets a dangerous precedent of state-sponsored press intimidation that chills independent journalism nationwide and infringes on core First Amendment protections.”
Read our full response ⬇️
BreakThrough responds to Congressional threats to ‘hold the staff hostage’
breakthroughnews.org/2026/10…
