Over 90% of the rainforest carbon offsets sold by the nonprofit organization that sets the world’s leading sustainability standard “are largely worthless…
Brett Wilkins
Brett Wilkins is a San Francisco-based writer and activist whose work focuses on issues of war and peace and human rights. He is a staff writer at Common Dreams and a member of the international socialist writers’ group Collective 20. Before joining Common Dreams, he was a longtime freelance journalist and essayist whose articles appeared in a wide variety of print and online publications including Counterpunch, Truthout, Salon.com, Antiwar.com, Asia Times, The Jakarta Post, Alternet, teleSUR, Yahoo News, Mondoweiss, EcoWatch, and Venezuela Analysis.
Hundreds of University of Illinois Chicago faculty members went on strike Tuesday after nine months of deadlocked contract negotiations over pay and…
To mark Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, leaders of a modern iteration of the slain civil rights champion’s final…
Investment behemoth BlackRock was accused Thursday of what author Naomi Klein termed “disaster capitalism” after war-ravaged Ukraine’s president announced he would work…
While many University of California graduate student workers welcomed Friday’s strike-ending ratification of a new labor agreement that delivers increased pay and…
Hundreds of workers at Macy’s San Francisco flagship store walked off the job Friday amid the last-minute holiday shopping rush for a…
Palestinian officials and supporters welcomed leftist Chilean President Gabriel Boric’s announcement this week that his country will open an embassy in the…
While many activists welcomed Monday’s official apology by Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte for his country’s 250-year history of enslaving Africans, some Dutch…
With just one week left at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference for countries to reach a deal to protect Earth’s ecosystems, environmental campaigners…
“Racism, xenophobia, and discrimination are fundamental determinants of health globally.” That’s the conclusion of a series of research papers published Friday in the eminent British…
