https://znetwork.org/author/andrew-favakeh/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:02:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/andrew-favakeh/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-trump-uses-military-to-threaten-democracy-nyt-declares-military-needs-more-resources/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-trump-uses-military-to-threaten-democracy-nyt-declares-military-needs-more-resources/#respond Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:02:37 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293868 The New York Times published a seven-day series of editorials (12/8/25–12/14/25) meant to examine, as the initial piece put it, “what’s gone wrong with the US military” and “how we can create a relevant and effective force that can deter wars whenever possible and win them wherever necessary.” These editorials serve as little more than propagandistic, jingoistic and Sinophobic [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-trump-uses-military-to-threaten-democracy-nyt-declares-military-needs-more-resources/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/emails-reveal-epsteins-ties-to-mossad-but-corporate-media-looked-away/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/emails-reveal-epsteins-ties-to-mossad-but-corporate-media-looked-away/#comments Sun, 16 Nov 2025 16:30:28 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291323 For years, there have been whispers that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who had ties to key officials in the US and foreign governments, was involved with Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad. However, the Epstein/Mossad ties were often labeled by US corporate media as “unfounded” (New York Times, 8/24/25), dismissed as a “conspiracy theory” (New York Times, 7/16/25), or said to have been “largely manufactured by paranoiacs and attention [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/emails-reveal-epsteins-ties-to-mossad-but-corporate-media-looked-away/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-palestinians-die-in-israeli-captivity-us-media-almost-never-take-note/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-palestinians-die-in-israeli-captivity-us-media-almost-never-take-note/#respond Sun, 28 Sep 2025 15:37:35 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289213 The different treatment accorded to the plights of Palestinian and Israeli prisoners by US corporate media illustrates a persistent double standard that treats some people as more human than others. Take 20-year-old Palestinian prisoner Ahmed Saeed Tazaz’a, who died in Israel’s Megiddo Prison after nearly three months of illegal detention, according to the Commission of Detainees and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-palestinians-die-in-israeli-captivity-us-media-almost-never-take-note/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/legacy-media-manufactures-consent-for-intervention-in-iran/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/legacy-media-manufactures-consent-for-intervention-in-iran/#respond Sun, 27 Jul 2025 15:17:50 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286624 Since Israel attacked Iran in June, the opinion sections of the United States’ two biggest newspapers have been carrying water for Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu in their efforts to overthrow Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. Of the 105 opinion articles and letters to the editor published in the New York Times and the Wall [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/legacy-media-manufactures-consent-for-intervention-in-iran/feed/ 0