About Brett

Brett Wilkins is a San Francisco-based writer for Common Dreams whose work focuses on issues of war and peace and human rights.

Before coming to Common Dreams, Brett was a longtime freelance journalist and essayist whose articles appeared in a wide variety of print and online publications including ABC News Good Morning America, Antiwar.com, Asia Times, Common Dreams, CounterPunch, Business Insider, The Jakarta Post, Mondoweiss, teleSUR, Venezuela Analysis, and Yahoo News.

He was a member of the leftist writers’ group Collective 20 along with 19 other authors including Michael Albert, Medea Benjamin, and Noam Chomsky.

Brett’s Common Dreams articles are regularly re-published by media outlets including Salon.com, AlterNet, Truthout, Raw Story, and Z Network. His work has also been re-published by a wide range of organizations from the United Nations to the World Economic Forum, and by members of both houses of U.S. Congress including Sens. Bernie Sanders, Jeff Merkley, and Elizabeth Warren, and Reps. Barbara Lee and Ro Khanna.

In 2023, his reporting on Palestine was entered into the record of a case in which the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s occupation is an illegal form of apartheid that must end immediately.

Brett, who is Black and Mexican—”Blaxican”—grew up adopted in a Jewish home in rural southern New Jersey. When not writing or organizing, he enjoys traveling, running, reading, and collecting old books—especially ones about the struggle for racial justice and the history of US imperialism. He has lived in four countries and in California since 1999.