Brett Wilkins

Brett Wilkins is staff writer for Common Dreams and a member of Collective 20.

Martyred Missionaries: The Lives and Legacies of Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, Ita Ford, and Dorothy Kazel

Teaching Torture: The Death and Legacy of Dan Mitrione

The Bologna Massacre, the ‘Strategy of Tension’ and Operation Gladio

Veterans Exposed in Cold War Bioweapons Testing Still Awaiting Answers — and Help

Dresden, February 1945

30 Years Ago, American Nun Dianna Ortiz Was Kidnapped and Tortured in Guatemala, She’s Still Waiting for Truth & Justice

‘No Friend But the Mountains’: A History of US Betrayal of the Kurds

A Brief History of US Concentration Camps

Jimmy Carter: US ‘Most Warlike Nation in History of the World’

Diego Garcia: UN Court Calls on Britain to ‘Decolonize’ Chagos Islands

Elliott Abrams: A Human Rights Horror Show in Three Acts

‘Take Out Their Families’: Trump Fulfills Criminal Campaign Promise as Hundreds Die in Latest US-Led Syria Strikes

Pope to Declare Slain Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero a Saint

John McCain: War Criminal, Not War Hero

Israeli Arab Dareen Tatour Sentenced to 5 Months in Prison Over Pro-Palestinian Poem

The Lydda Death March and the Israeli State of Denial

US-led Strikes Kill 100 Syrian Civilians as Amnesty Reports Potential War Crimes in Raqqa

The Salvador Option: the US is Once Again Supporting Death Squads in Central America

Luis Posada Carriles, Hemisphere’s Most Wanted Terrorist, Dies Free in Miami at Age 90

The Dark Side of Israeli Independence

A Brief History of American Torture

Deir Yassin: The Massacre that Sparked the Nakba 

The World According to Mad Dog: US Support for Saudi War in Yemen Reduces Civilian Casualties

Trump Touts $12.5B Saudi Arms Sale as US Support for Yemen War Literally Fuels Atrocities