The richest tenth of U.S. households are responsible for 40% of all the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions, a study published Thursday revealed, underscoring what…
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.
Two-thirds of likely U.S. voters support the ongoing writers’ and actors’ union strikes, while an overwhelming majority of voters across party lines agree…
Emergency room visits by people suffering heart attacks and strokes significantly decreased almost immediately after one of the largest coal-processing plants in…
More than 1,100 Israeli air force reservists on Friday threatened to not report for duty if the country’s far-right government proceeds with…
Successive economic shocks over the past three years—including the Covid-19 pandemic, wars and other violence, and extreme weather disasters driven by human-caused…
The government watchdog Accountable.US reported Friday that a majority of incumbent members in the U.S. House of Representatives filed extensions this year…
As the West Bank reels from the latest attacks by Israeli soldiers and settlers, more than 70 U.S.-based advocacy groups on Wednesday…
Proponents of student debt cancellation reacted angrily Friday to what one leading activist group called President Joe Biden’s “horseshit” response to the U.S. Supreme…
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Pramila Jayapal on Wednesday reintroduced legislation that would make college tuition-free for working families and pay for it with a…
As the second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee wrapped up in Paris with an agreement to develop the first draft of…
