https://brettwilkins.com/2026/03/25/earthquake-for-big-tech-as-la-jury-in-social-media-addiction-trial-finds-meta-youtube-harmed-child/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/teenphone.pngteenphone(Photo: WikiMedia Commons) https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cuba-sick-1.jpgcuba-sick2026-03-29T22:58:17+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2026/03/27/no-patient-deserves-this-doctors-nurses-say-trump-oil-embargo-on-cuba-is-killing-sick-people/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cuba-sick.jpgcuba-sick(Photo: Democracy Now!)2026-03-29T22:35:49+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2026/03/27/gutter-racist-pete-hegseth-blocks-promotion-of-exemplary-black-and-female-army-colonels/2026-03-29T22:19:55+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/academic-citations/2026-03-13T18:15:05+00:00weekly0.6https://brettwilkins.com/2026/01/22/will-bari-weiss-condemn-israels-killing-of-a-cbs-contributor-in-gaza/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/bari-weiss.pngbari-weiss Bari Weiss, founder and editor of The Free Press, speaks at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin on Sept. 22, 2023. 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(Photo: Wikimedia Commons) 2025-11-09T03:06:45+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2025/10/28/us-extrajudicial-assassination-spree-continues-as-hegseth-says-14-killed-in-new-boat-bombings/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/hegseth.pngHegsethUS Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)2025-11-09T02:32:25+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2025/11/06/over-10000-palestinians-buried-beneath-gaza-ruins-in-worlds-largest-mass-grave/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/boy-rubble-gaza.pngboy-rubble-gazaA child stands amid the ruins of the Gaza Strip. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) 2025-11-09T01:57:43+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2025/11/03/ex-idf-legal-chief-who-leaked-sde-teiman-gang-rape-video-arrested-after-going-missing/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/yifat-tomer-yerushalmi.jpgYifat-Tomer-YerushalmiYifat Tomer-Yerushalmi attends a Knesset meeting on August 11, 2024. (Photo by Noam Moskowitz/Office of the Knesset Spokesperson) 2025-11-05T18:39:12+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2025/07/21/minneapolis-democrats-endorse-democratic-socialist-omar-fateh-for-mayor-over-incumbent-frey/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/omar-fateh.pngomar-fateh Supporters hoist Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh on their shoulders after he secured the endorsement of the city Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party on July 19, 2025. (Photo: MN Senate Media/X) 2025-07-27T03:30:44+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2025/07/22/famine-expert-israels-starvation-of-gaza-is-the-most-minutely-designed-and-controlled-since-wwii/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/gaza-famine2.pnggaza-famine2Six-month-old Palestinian baby Zainab Abu Hulaib died at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, Palestine due to severe malnutrition caused by Israel's obliteration and siege of Gaza. (Photo: Ibrahim Muharab/X)2025-07-27T02:47:47+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2025/07/24/israeli-heritage-minister-amichai-eliyahu-vows-that-all-of-gaza-will-be-jewish/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/amichai-eliyahu.pngamichai-eliyahu Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu speaks during a November 27, 2024 demonstration in Tel Aviv. (Photo: Amichai Eliyahu/X) 2025-07-27T02:01:16+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2025/07/25/horror-so-vast-it-could-no-longer-be-ignored-us-media-finally-centering-starving-gazans/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/starving-child.pngstarving-childA Palestinian child suffers starvation due to Israel's obliteration and siege of Gaza. (Photo: Mostafa Salah/X)2025-07-27T01:27:23+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2025/05/09/judge-frees-trump-political-prisoner-rumeysa-ozturk-warns-of-grave-threat-to-free-speech/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/rumeysa.pngRumeysaTufts University Ph.D. student Rümeysa Öztürk was freed from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention on May 9, 2025 following a federal judge's order. (Photo: NBC Boston screen grab)2025-05-14T21:46:01+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2025/05/06/amid-growing-famine-caused-by-israeli-siege-ngo-coalition-decries-new-registration-rules/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/gaza-hunger.pngGaza-hungerPalestinians clamor for food aid in Gaza in this photo posted by UNRWA on April 25, 2025. 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(Photo: PRCS)2025-04-13T02:25:24+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2025/04/10/argentinians-take-to-the-streets-for-general-strike-against-mileis-chainsaw-austerity-policies/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/argentina-general-strike.pngargentina-general-strikeA view of general strikers in Buenos Aires on April 9, 2025. (Photo: Argentina Hoy/X)2025-04-13T02:10:34+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2025/04/11/judge-rules-former-columbia-graduate-student-mahmoud-khalil-can-be-deported-for-constitutionally-protected-activism/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/free-mahmoud-khalil.pngfree-mahmoud-khalilPeople demand the release of Mahmoud Khalil during a March 10, 2025 demonstration in Thomas Paine Park, New York City. (Photo: SWinxy/Wikimedia Commons)2025-04-13T01:50:24+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2025/03/27/brazils-left-welcomes-trial-of-bolsonaro-and-associates-for-alleged-coup-attemp/2025-03-29T16:12:15+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2025/03/28/jd-vance-says-greenland-is-cold-as-shit-just-like-locals-reaction-to-his-visit/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/vance-greenland.pngvance-greenlandA motorcade carrying Trump administration officials including Vice President JD Vance travels in Greenland on March 28, 2025. (Photo: JD Vance/X)2025-03-29T16:04:45+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2018/05/11/counterpunch-the-dark-side-of-israeli-independence/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/nakba1.pngnakba2025-03-27T20:40:56+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2015/09/21/us-troops-ordered-to-ignore-child-sex-slavery-among-afghan-allies/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/afghan-boys.pngafghan-boys(Photo: Geopolitical Monitor)2025-03-10T22:58:37+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2015/03/25/study-1-3-million-killed-in-us-war-on-terror/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/afghan-civilian-casualties.pngAfghan-civilian-casualtiesAfghan civilians killed in an April, 2013 US airstrike. (Photo: Al Jazeera screen grab)2025-03-10T22:51:57+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2015/11/19/on-this-day-2005-us-marines-massacre-24-iraqi-men-women-and-children-at-haditha/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/haditha-massacre.jpgHaditha-MassacreAftermath of the Haditha Massacre. (Photo: US Marine Corps)2025-03-10T22:43:38+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/02/22/albert-woodfox-angola-3-member-freed-after-43-years-in-solitary-confinement-speaks/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/albert-woodfox.com_.pngAlbert-Woodfox.comAlbert Woodfox walks free at last. (Photo: Democracy Now!)2025-03-10T22:27:06+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2025/03/07/critics-condemn-trump-administrations-use-of-ai-to-revoke-visas-of-students-deemed-supportive-of-hamas/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/gaza-protest.pnggaza-protestPolice watch participants in an All Out for Palestine rally near Arizona State University in Tempe on December 10, 2023. (Photo: Phil Roeder/flickr/cc)2025-03-10T22:16:30+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2025/03/08/horrifying-and-violent-south-carolina-executes-brad-sigmon-by-firing-squad/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/brad-sigmon.pngBrad-SigmonPeople protest South Carolina's execution of Brad Sigmon by firing squad on March 7, 2025 in Columbia. (Photo: Death Penalty Action) 2025-03-10T21:55:11+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2025/03/09/as-israel-pulls-plug-on-gaza-electricity-smotrich-says-trumps-ethnic-cleansing-plan-is-taking-shape/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/smotrich.pngSmotrichIsraeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (Photo: Bezalel Smotrich/Facebook)2025-03-10T21:39:58+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2025/03/10/critics-blast-retaliatory-ice-arrest-of-palestinian-green-card-holder-mahmoud-khalil-who-helped-lead-columbias-gaza-solidarity-camp/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/mahmoud-khalil.jpgMahmoud-KhalilMahmoud Khalil (Photo: Democracy Now) 2025-03-10T21:16:12+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/about/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/bw1.pngbw1https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/bw1.jpgbw1https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/brett-wilkins.jpgBrett Wilkins2025-03-07T18:41:11+00:00weekly0.6https://brettwilkins.com/2025/02/25/at-least-6-babies-die-from-hypothermia-in-gaza-amid-israeli-blockade/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/babies.pngbabiesMedical workers care for a baby in an incubator in a Gaza hospital. (Photo: International Medical Corps)2025-03-07T04:32:43+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2025/02/28/bbc-rebuked-for-pulling-documentary-gaza-how-to-survive-a-warzone/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/warzone.pngwarzone A screenshot of the cancelled BBC documentary film "Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone," is shown here.(Photo: BBC screenshot) 2025-03-07T04:21:10+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2025/02/14/trump-administration-erases-transgender-people-from-stonewall-national-monument-website/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/trans.pngtransStonewall uprising participants and pioneering transgender activists Marsha P. Johnson (left) and Sylvia Rivera (right) march in a June 24, 1973 parade in New York City. (Photo: Leonard Fink/LGBT Community Center National History Archive via U.S. National Park Service)2025-02-23T22:02:27+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2025/02/18/investigations-reveal-depth-of-big-tech-complicity-in-israels-ai-driven-gaza-slaughter/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/gaza-aerial.pnggaza-aerialAn aerial view of Gaza in ruins. (Photo: Israel Defense Forces) 2025-02-23T20:58:22+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2024/12/10/trump-taps-harmeet-dhillon-anti-trans-lawyer-for-key-civil-rights-post/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/dhillon-trump.pngDhillon-Trump Harmeet Dhillon shakes hands with Republican U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in this photo posted on her X page on October 31, 2024. (Photo: Harmeet Dhillon/X) 2024-12-28T02:03:58+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2024/12/19/hrw-accuses-israel-of-committing-extermination-and-acts-of-genocide-by-depriving-gaza-of-water/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/gaza-water.pnggaza-water(Photo: UNICEF)2024-12-24T03:22:33+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2024/12/20/israeli-troops-describe-indiscriminate-murder-of-palestinian-civilians-in-gaza-kill-zone/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/idf.pngidf(Photo: Israel Defense Forces)2024-12-24T02:48:40+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2018/06/26/daily-kos-liberty-and-justice-for-all-migrant-child-detainees-forced-to-recite-pledge-of-allegiance/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/migrants.pngmigrantsA US Border Patrol officer checks migrants' papers. (Photo: ProPublica/Creative Commons)2024-12-24T02:35:49+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/05/24/daily-kos-obama-scolds-vietnam-on-human-rights-ignores-past-us-atrocities/2024-12-24T02:34:41+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/05/15/counterpunch-veterans-exposed-in-cold-war-bioweapons-testing-still-awaiting-answers/2024-12-24T02:33:55+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2024/12/16/israel-kills-khaled-nabhan-known-for-touching-soul-of-my-soul-tribute-to-granddaughter-slain-by-idf/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/nabhan.pngNabhan Khaled Nabhan and his granddaughter Reem were both killed in separate Israeli bombardments of the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza, Palestine. (Photo: Nabhan family) 2024-12-19T00:48:33+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2024/12/17/lawsuit-accuses-us-state-department-blinken-of-illegally-arming-israel-via-leahy-law-loophole/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/blinken-and-netanyahu-1140x684-1.jpgBlinken-and-Netanyahu-1140x684U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on October 22, 2024. (Photo: U.S. Embassy Chile)2024-12-18T06:36:50+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2024/10/31/brazils-indigenous-peoples-rally-against-death-decree-attack-on-land-demarcation/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/demarcacao.pngdemarcacao2024-11-10T19:27:56+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2024/11/01/south-carolina-execution-assembly-line-rolls-on-as-richard-moore-killed-by-lethal-injection/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/richard-moore-south-carolina.pngRichard-Moore-South-Carolina South Carolina executed Richard Moore on November 1, 2024. (Photo: Justice 360) 2024-11-09T05:55:45+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2024/11/05/netanyahu-fires-gallant-replaces-him-with-another-genocidal-lunatic/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/katz.pngkatz Then-Israeli Energy Minister Israel Katz signs a document on August 23, 2023 (Photo: Israel Katz/Facebook) 2024-11-09T05:30:42+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2024/10/24/many-children-among-hundreds-of-casualties-from-israels-gaza-massacres/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/jabalia.pngjabaliaPalestinian victims of Israeli bombing—including women and children—line the hall of a Gaza hospital on October 18, 2024. (Photo: Quds News Network/X/screen grab)2024-10-26T17:09:43+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2024/10/25/israeli-strike-on-khan-younis-gaza-kills-at-least-38-including-14-children-from-the-same-family/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/kamal-adwan.pngKamal-AdwanCasualties from Israel's bombardment of Gaza lay on the floor of the besieged Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza on October 25, 2024. (Photo: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus/X) 2024-10-26T16:56:54+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2024/09/24/missouri-executes-marcellus-williams-continuing-republican-killing-spree/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/marcellus-williams.pngMarcellus-WilliamsThe state of Missouri executed Marcellus Williams, seen here, by lethal injection on September 24, 2024. (Photo: Marcellus Williams' legal defense team) 2024-10-04T04:59:26+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2024/09/25/human-rights-groups-list-over-50-calls-for-genocide-in-gaza-on-israels-channel-14/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/sde-teiman-rapist.pngsde-teiman-rapistA masked Israel Defense Forces soldier accused in taking part in the gang rape of a Palestinian prisoner at the notorious Sde Teiman prisoner appears on Channel 14 to defend the IDF. (Photo: Channel 14 screen grab) 2024-10-04T04:51:56+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2024/09/30/absolutely-epic-ruling-judge-strikes-down-georgias-six-week-abortion-ban/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/georgia-abortion.pnggeorgia-abortion Protesters march in an October 2, 2021 abortion rights demonstration in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo: John Ramspott/flickr/cc) 2024-10-04T04:33:42+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2024/10/03/chagossians-decry-deal-allowing-us-to-keep-diego-garcia-base-for-99-more-years/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/chagossian.pngchagossianChagossians protest in London's Trafalgar Square on June 23, 2018. (Photo: UK Chagos Support Association) 2024-10-04T04:20:21+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2024/09/11/rachel-corries-parents-call-for-investigation-of-israels-killing-of-american-activist-aysenur-eygi/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/aysenur-eygi.pngAysenur-EygiTurkish American activist Ayşenur Eygi recently graduated from the University of Washington. (Photo: Eygi family)2024-09-15T01:08:10+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2024/09/13/matt-nelson-self-immolates-near-israeli-consulate-in-boston-in-protest-of-gaza-genocide-us-complicity/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/matt-nelson.pngMatt-NelsonThis man, Matt Nelson, set himself on fire outside the Israeli Consulate in Boston, Massachusetts on September 11, 2024. (Photo: YouTube/screen grab) 2024-09-14T05:19:17+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2011/06/30/u-s-cost-of-war-on-terror-250000-dead-3-7-trillion-and-counting/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/iraq-war.jpgIraq-warU.S. soldiers take cover during a firefight with Iraqi homeland defenders in the Al Doura section of Baghdad on March 7, 2007. (Photo: US Army)2024-09-14T05:07:03+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2024/08/23/rescued-israeli-hostage-noa-argamani-slams-media-lies-says-she-was-wounded-by-idf-airstrike-not-hamas/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/noa-argamani.pngNoa-ArgamaniIsraeli woman Noa Argamani was kidnapped and imprisoned for 245 days by Hamas militants in Gaza. (Photo: Noa Argamani/Instagram)2024-08-25T18:59:10+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2024/08/22/let-palestine-speak-uncommitted-shares-convention-speech-the-dnc-wont-allow/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/ruwa-romman-1.pngRuwa-Romman Democratic Georgia state Rep. Ruwa Romman speaks during a press conference held by the Uncommitted National Movement outside the United Center—site of the 2024 Democratic National Convention—in Chicago on August 22, 2024. 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(Photo: Chris Boland—link at end of article)2024-08-05T04:46:17+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2024/07/18/amnesty-international-condemns-israels-mass-incommunicado-detention-and-torture-of-palestinians/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/sde-teiman.jpgSde-TeimanIsraeli activists protest outside the notorious Sde Teiman prison in the Negev Desert on April 20, 2024. (Photo: Ofer Neiman/X) 2024-07-27T22:53:09+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2024/07/22/christina-assi-journalist-who-lost-leg-in-israeli-attack-carries-olympic-torch-in-paris/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/assi-abdallah.jpgAssi-AbdallahChristina Assi carries the Olympic torch in Paris on July 21, 2024 in honor of slain videographer Issam Abdallah. (Photo: Democracy Now!)2024-07-27T22:39:29+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2024/07/24/guilty-of-genocide-rashida-tlaib-protests-netanyahus-speech-to-congress/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/rashida-tlaib.pngrashida-tlaibU.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) holds a sign reading "guilty of genocide" during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's July 24, 2024 address to Congress in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Rashida Tlaib/X)2024-07-27T18:11:35+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2024/07/26/gaza-newborn-saved-from-womb-of-mother-killed-in-israeli-airstrike/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/malek-yassen.pngMalek-YassenMalek Yassen was rescued from the womb of his mother, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Al-Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza on July 19, 2024. (Photo: Zuheir Dola and Rizek Eldremle/Mada Masr) 2024-07-27T17:21:45+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2024/07/03/israel-announces-biggest-west-bank-land-theft-in-30-years/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/israel-settlers-march.jpgIsrael-settlers-marchThousands of Israeli settler colonists protected by Israeli troops march through the northern West Bank toward the Palestinian village of Beita on April 10, 2023. (Photo: Yara Hawari/X) 2024-07-10T00:05:52+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/01/28/digital-journal-is-san-francisco-pushing-aside-the-homeless-for-the-super-bowl/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/sf-homeless.pngSF homeless(Photo: Brett Wilkins) 2024-06-28T17:59:02+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2024/06/11/us-jury-finds-chiquita-liable-for-colombian-death-squads-murder-of-banana-workers/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/chiquita.jpgchiquita(Photo: Mike Mozart/flickr/cc)2024-06-23T16:26:44+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2024/04/25/holocaust-survivor-stephen-kapos-to-student-anti-genocide-protesters-just-keep-doing-it/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/stephen-kapos.jpgStephen-Kapos Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos (right) and descendants of Holocaust survivors take part in an April 13, 2024 London protest against the Gaza genocide. 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Augusto Pinochet (Photo: Paul Lowry/Wikmedia Commons)2022-03-12T02:35:09+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2013/12/12/my-debate-with-a-guantanamo-prosecutor-and-high-school-classmate/2022-03-12T02:18:18+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2012/02/02/obama-restores-us-military-aid-to-uzbekistan-whose-brutal-dictator-boils-opponents-alive/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/karimov-clinton.jpgKarimov-ClintonUzbek dictator Islam Karimov welcomes US Secretary of State in Tashkent on December 2, 2010. (Photo: US State Department)2022-03-11T04:52:32+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2022/02/09/experts-testify-before-senate-on-deadly-consequences-of-us-drone-strikes/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/hina-shamsi.pngHina-ShamsiACLU attorney Hina Shamsi testifies during the February 9, 2022 U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on U.S. drone strikes. 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(Photo: ResoluteSupportMedia/Flickr/cc)2022-03-09T07:09:20+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2022/01/06/uk-calls-grow-to-revoke-tony-blairs-knighthood-over-iraq-war/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/blair-bush.jpgBlair-BushU.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair shake hands following in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. on May 25, 2006. (Photo: WikiMedia Commons) 2022-01-13T09:06:55+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2022/01/11/20-years-and-four-presidents-later-us-cruelty-and-depravity-continues-at-guantanamo/2022-01-13T07:33:34+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/12/28/alarming-levels-of-carcinogenic-forever-chemicals-detected-in-water-near-us-okinawa-bases/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/okinawa.jpgOkinawaJapanese police in Okinawa break up a peaceful protest against U.S. military bases on the archipelago on May 18. 2015. (Photo: Tezuka Sora/Twitter) 2021-12-30T17:29:20+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2019/06/21/counterpunch-a-brief-history-of-us-concentration-camps/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/cages.pngcagesUndocumented migrant children held in cages by US Customs and Border Patrol. (Photo: US Customs and Border Patrol) https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/cu-chi-2.pngcu chiGuarding the Cu Chi strategic hamlet, South Vietnam, 1962 (Photo: Stars and Stripes) https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/cu-chi.pngcu chiGuarding the strategic hamlet of Cu Chi, South Vietnam, in 1962 (Photo: Stars and Stripes) https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/santa-anita.pngsanta anitaJapanese-Americans internet at Santa Anita, California in 1942https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/reconcentrado.pngreconcentrado'Reconcentrados' were US concentration camps for Filipino civilians https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/contraband.pngcontrabandA group of African American refugees, called contraband, who worked for the Union army as teamsters. (Photo: Library of Congress) https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/ft.-sumner.pngFt. SumnerNavajo imprisoned at Ft. Sumner, New Mexico https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/trail-of-tears.pngTrail of TearsCherokee refugees on the Trail of Tears (Painting by Robert Lindneux, 1942)https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/manzanar.pngManzanarManzanar concentration camp in eastern California, 1942 (US Government photo) 2021-12-30T06:58:07+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2013/08/15/army-releases-photo-of-bradley-manning-dressed-as-a-woman/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/manning.pngManningThe U.S. Army has released this photo of Bradley Manning. 2021-12-30T06:32:02+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2012/10/11/yahoo-sports-san-francisco-giants-world-series-history/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/bochy.pngBochySan Francisco Giants manager Bruch Bochy holds up the Commissioner's Trophy during the city's parade and rally celebrating the 2010 Giants' World Series victory over the Texas Rangers. (Photo: Mike Deerkoski/Flickr Creative Commons) 2021-12-30T06:26:02+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2012/10/24/yahoo-sports-10-reasons-the-san-francisco-giants-will-tame-the-detroit-tigers-in-world-series/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/giants-clinch.pngGiants clinch2021-12-30T06:25:28+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2012/10/18/the-us-rape-of-okinawa-continues/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/okinawa-protest.jpgOkinawa-protestA crowd of Okinawans protesting the Futenma base in Ginowan, Okinawa on November 8, 2009. (Photo: Nathan Keirn/Wikimedia Commons) 2021-12-30T06:24:43+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2013/08/13/yahoo-news-san-francisco-rightly-says-no-to-stop-and-frisk/2021-12-30T06:05:27+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2013/08/16/abu-ghraib-torture-victims-sued-by-their-torturers/2021-12-30T06:04:23+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2013/07/02/medical-marijuana-review-medical-marijuana-patients-still-face-stigma/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/mmj.pngmmj(Photo courtesy the Rollins family) 2021-12-30T06:00:03+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2013/07/24/yahoo-news-obamas-soaring-rhetoric-kept-aloft-by-plenty-of-hot-air/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/obama.pngObama(Photo: Christopher Dilts/Flickr Creative Commons) 2021-12-30T05:59:43+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2013/07/24/yahoo-news-2016-candidates-none-of-the-above-thank-you-very-much/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/hillary.pngHillary(Photo: NDU Audio Visual/Flickr Creative Commons) 2021-12-30T05:59:13+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2013/07/30/yahoo-news-bradley-manning-state-of-power-vs-state-of-conscience/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/manning.pngManning2021-12-30T05:57:38+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2013/07/30/bradley-manning-guilty-of-19-of-22-charges-faces-130-years/2021-12-30T05:52:24+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/11/24/georgia-jury-convicts-all-three-of-ahmaud-arberys-killers-of-murder/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/defendants.pngdefendants From left: Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael ,and William “Roddie” Bryan Jr. were found guilty by a Brunswick, Georgia jury of murdering unarmed Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery on February 23, 2020. (Photo: Pool) 2021-12-14T06:20:45+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/12/11/40-years-later-el-mozote-massacre-victims-vow-to-keep-searching-for-justice/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/el-mozote.jpgEl-MozoteA memorial to victims of the December 1981 El Mozote massacres, inscribed with the message, "They are not dead. They are with us, with you, and with all of humanity." (Photo: Ernesto Zelaya/Wikimedia Commons)2021-12-14T05:58:43+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/12/13/no-punishment-for-us-troops-behind-drone-strike-that-killed-10-afghan-civilians-pentagon/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/kabul-us-drone.jpgKabul-US-droneThe aftermath of a August 29, 2021 US drone strike that killed 10 civilians, including 7 children, in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo: Democracy Now! screen grab)2021-12-14T04:14:34+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/06/21/daily-kos-with-1-million-california-votes-still-uncounted-how-widespread-are-electoral-improprieties/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/vote.pngvote(Photo: Robert Couse-Baker/Flickr Creative Commons)2021-11-25T17:44:00+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/10/19/chicago-racial-justice-groups-urge-us-senate-to-reject-rahm/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/rejectrahm-2000.jpg#RejectRahm-2000Chicago Latina Moms (CLM) and Organized Communities Against Deportation (OCAD) marched on the Juvenile Detention Center to protest the police murders of Laquan McDonald and Tyshawn Lee on December 29, 2015. (Photo: Bob Simpson/Flickr/cc)2021-10-28T03:41:41+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/10/21/us-judge-rules-guantanamo-detainee-asadullah-haroon-guls-imprisonment-is-illegal/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/asadullah-haroon-gul-2000.jpgAsadullah-Haroon-Gul-2000Asadullah Haroon Gul has been imprisoned by the United States without charge or trial since 2007. (Photo: Reprieve) 2021-10-28T03:15:06+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/10/25/21-israel-based-groups-condemn-terror-designation-for-palestine-ngos-as-act-of-cowardice/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/israel-apartheid-2000.jpgIsrael-Apartheid-2000Palestinian girls wait at an Israeli checkpoint in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, Palestine. (Photo: Ronan Shenhav/Flickr/cc) 2021-10-28T02:59:04+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/10/27/brazil-senate-panel-endorses-criminal-charges-for-bolsonaro-over-covid-19-response/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/bolsonaro-5000-.jpgBolsonaro-5000-Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro discusses Covid-19 vaccines at the Ministry of Health in Brasília on June 1, 2021. (Photo: Palácio do Planalto/Flickr/cc) 2021-10-27T18:55:00+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2011/10/25/moral-low-ground-police-attack-peaceful-occupy-oakland-protesters-with-rubber-bullets-concussion-grenades/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/occupy.jpgOccupyLaw enforcement officers from various mutual aid jurisdictions begin arresting Occupy Wall Street protesters in downtown Oakland, California before attacking a crowd with so-called "less lethal" projectiles, chemical agents, and batons on October 25, 2011. (Photo: Brett Wilkins) https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/screen-shot-2019-05-16-at-12.25.38-pm.pngScreen Shot 2019-05-16 at 12.25.38 PMOccupy Oakland protester and US Marine and Iraq war veteran Scott Olsen was seriously wounded by a police projectile at the October 25, 2011 demonstration. (AFP photo) 2021-10-25T20:43:05+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/10/02/with-focus-on-assange-belmarsh-tribunal-puts-us-war-crimes-on-trial/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/mosul-by-peter-biroeuflickr-cc.pngMosul by Peter Biro:EU:Flickr ccMosul, Iraq was severely damaged by US aerial bombing and anti-Islamic State militant and US shelling and other attacks. (Photo: Peter Biro, European Union/Flickr cc)2021-10-13T15:39:27+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2011/08/09/london-uprising-rooted-in-economic-inequality-and-racism/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/2011-london-uprising.jpg2011-London-Uprising(Photo: Emma LB/Flickr/cc)2021-09-30T01:09:23+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2011/09/22/the-troy-davis-execution-from-great-shame-springs-great-hope/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/troy_davis.jpgtroy_davis2021-09-30T00:57:13+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2011/09/10/fighting-terror-with-terror-9-11-10/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/9-11.jpg9 11(Photo: Michael Foran/Wikimedia Commons)2021-09-30T00:51:35+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/04/15/rights-defenders-decry-advancement-of-oklahoma-anti-protest-bills/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/charlottesville.jpgCharlottesvilleA vehicle plows into a group of protesters marching along 4th Street NE at the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville on the day of the Unite the Right rally on Saturday, August 12, 2017. (Photo: Ryan Kelly/The Daily Progress/The Pulitzer Prizes/Wikimedia Commons) 2021-09-03T03:20:06+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/04/12/virginia-cop-who-pepper-sprayed-black-army-officer-fired-after-damning-video-released/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/nazario.jpgnazario2021-09-03T02:33:25+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/04/08/new-york-to-offer-undocumented-migrants-up-to-15600-in-pandemic-relief/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/undocumented-workers.jpgundocumented-workersUndocumented and excluded workers march for Covid-19 relief in New York City on March 5, 2021. (Photo: NDLON/Twitter) 2021-09-03T02:14:01+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/04/02/warning-of-profound-threat-to-free-press-as-drone-whistleblower-daniel-hale-pleads-guilty/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/daniel-hale.jpgDaniel-HaleDrone whistleblower Daniel Hale (R) stands next to CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin outside the White House in Washington, D.C. in this undated photo. (Photo:Democracy Now!) 2021-08-31T17:40:03+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/04/06/jayapal-house-dems-propose-constitutional-amendment-to-end-corporate-personhood/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/pramila-jayapal.jpgPramila-JayapalRep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and dozens of House Democrats introduced the We the People Amendment—which would reverse the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling and end corporate personhood—on April 6, 2021. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) 2021-08-31T17:37:19+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/04/03/first-nations-land-defenders-take-direct-action-against-trans-mountain-pipeline/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/braided-warriors.jpgBraided-WarriorsFirst Nations land defenders lock themselves to equipment at a Trans Mountain Corporation pumping station on unceded Secwepemc land in British Columbia on April 3, 2021. (Photo: Braided Warriors/Twitter) 2021-08-31T17:20:28+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/04/02/interior-secretary-haaland-announces-new-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-unit/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/deb-haaland.jpgDeb-HaalandInterior Secretary Deb Haaland (Photo: US Department of the Interior) 2021-08-31T17:03:59+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/04/01/south-carolina-bill-would-require-teaching-based-on-trumps-ahistorical-1776-report/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/trump-flag.jpgTrump-FlagThen-President Donald Trump hugs a U.S. flag at the 2019 CPAC conference in Oxon Hill, Maryland. (Photo: Mike Licht/Flickr/cc)2021-08-31T02:13:23+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/04/01/gop-attack-on-democracy-surges-as-texas-voter-suppression-bill-advances/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/voter-suppression.jpgVoter-Suppression(Photo: cool revolution/Flickr/cc)2021-08-21T18:13:58+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2015/01/21/world-bank-same-odds-of-escaping-poverty-in-india-united-states/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/mumbai.jpgMumbaiMumbai, India (Photo: Surajnagre/Wikimedia Commons)2021-08-21T17:50:31+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2014/06/11/rep-louie-gohmert-during-religious-freedom-hearing-believe-in-jesus-or-go-to-hell/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/louie-gohmert-1.jpgLouie-GohmertRep. Louie Gohmert (Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr/cc)2021-08-21T17:40:43+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2015/03/20/rep-louie-gohmert-its-time-to-bomb-iran/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/louie-gohmert.jpgLouie-GohmertRep. Louie Gohmert (Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr/cc)2021-08-21T17:29:57+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2015/02/25/leaked-spy-cables-reveal-mossad-rejected-netanyahus-iran-nuke-claim/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/netanyahu-cartoon-bomb.pngNetanyahu-Cartoon-BombIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was widely mocked for using a cartoon bomb prop to make his questionable case about Iran’s nuclear program. (Photo: FAIR/Creative Commons)2021-08-21T17:18:44+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2015/03/09/israeli-foreign-minister-avigdor-lieberman-behead-disloyal-arab-citizens/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/avigdor-lieberman.jpgAvigdor-LiebermanAvigdor Lieberman (Photo: Paul Kagame/Flickr/cc)2021-08-21T17:07:28+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2015/07/31/israeli-medical-association-new-force-feeding-law-legalizes-torture/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/leonid-eidelman.jpgLeonid-EidelmanDr. Leonid Eidelman (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)2021-08-21T16:57:36+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2015/09/18/reykjavik-city-council-boycotts-goods-from-apartheid-israel/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/reykjavik.jpgReykjavikReykjavik, Iceland. (Photo: Bryan Pocius/Flickr/cc)2021-08-21T16:36:35+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2015/02/11/despite-federal-ruling-alabama-same-sex-couples-still-denied-marriage-licenses/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ala.pngAlaLatoria Smith (L) and Kelly Pfannensteil believe it's only a matter of time—and not much time—before they will finally be able to marry. (Photo: Latoria Smith/Facebook) 2021-08-21T05:04:37+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2015/05/14/ntsb-lead-investigator-deadly-amtrak-derailment-was-preventable/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/amtrak-crash.jpgAmtrak-crash(Photo: NTSB) 2021-08-21T04:50:32+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2013/03/16/on-this-day-2003-us-peace-activist-rachel-corrie-killed-by-israeli-occupation-forces/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/rachel-corrie.jpgRachel-CorrieRachel Corrie shortly before she was killed on March 16, 2003 while attempting to defend Palestinian homes from destruction by Israeli forces. (Photo: screen grab) 2021-08-21T04:36:07+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2013/03/19/on-this-day-2003-us-led-invasion-and-occupation-of-iraq-begins/2021-08-21T04:16:31+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/04/01/threat-to-democracy-brazils-bolsonaro-faces-growing-calls-to-resign/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/jair-boslonaro.jpgJair-BoslonaroBrazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on March 10, 2021. (Photo: Palácio do Planalto/Flickr/cc) 2021-08-21T04:02:13+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/03/31/pentagon-to-lift-trump-era-ban-on-transgender-troops/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/trans-troops-1.jpgtrans-troopsPeople protest against the transgender military ban in Washington, D.C. on July 29, 2017. (Photo: Ted Eytan/Wikimedia Commons) 2021-08-21T03:16:27+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/07/26/daily-kos-trump-transgender-military-ban-is-all-about-hate/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/transgender-ban.pngtransgender banA protest held July 26, 2017 in Times Square outside the US Army Recruiting Center in response to President Trump tweeting that transgender people would no longer be allowed to serve in the US military. (Photo: Jere Keys/Wikimedia Commons)2021-08-21T01:35:23+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/04/22/daily-kos-ted-cruz-declares-war-on-transgender-people/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cruz.pngCruzSen. Ted Cruz conflated transgender people with "repulsive perverts and criminals" in a radio interview with Glenn Beck. (Photo: Michael Vadon/Flickr Creative Commons) 2021-08-21T01:35:03+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/10/10/daily-kos-shades-of-cointelpro-fbi-designates-black-identity-extremists-domestic-terror-threat/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/blm.pngBLM2021-08-21T01:34:30+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/09/27/fundamentalist-bigot-outlaw-judge-roy-moore-is-one-win-away-from-the-senate-welcome-to-alabama/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/roy-moore.pngRoy Moore2021-08-21T01:34:09+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/07/31/daily-kos-pastor-most-of-cabinet-but-not-trump-attend-weekly-white-house-bible-study/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/prayer.pngprayer(White House photo/Wikimedia Commons)2021-08-21T01:33:45+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/07/25/daily-kos-alabama-us-senate-frontrunner-roy-moore-calls-for-christian-theocracy/2021-08-21T01:33:22+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/07/12/daily-kos-28000-us-shootings-in-2016-gop-platform-declares-pornography-a-public-health-crisis/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/porn.pngpornIs that a porn addict chasing those kids? Or maybe a clergyman... or GOP congressman! (Photo: Hansol/Flickr Creative Commons) 2021-08-21T01:32:50+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/03/25/daily-kos-san-francisco-mayor-bans-city-funded-travel-to-north-carolina-over-anti-lgbtq-law/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/lee.pngLeeSan Francisco Mayor Ed Lee (center, in rainbow stunna shades) marches in the city's 2014 Pride parade. (Photo: Shiny Things/Flickr Creative Commons) 2021-08-21T01:32:26+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/03/29/derek-chauvin-murder-trial-begins-in-minneapolis/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/george-floyd.jpgGeorge-FloydTributes to George Floyd line a memorial wall in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo: GSankary/Flickr/cc)2021-08-21T01:29:20+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/03/26/human-rights-coalition-urges-biden-to-ease-economic-sanctions-amid-pandemic/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/sanctions.jpgSanctionsCODEPINK protests outside the Treasury Department. (Photo: Medea Benjamin)2021-08-02T20:56:28+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/03/24/report-details-civilian-harm-from-us-drone-strikes-in-yemen/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/yemen-civilians.jpgYemen-CiviliansBoys hold a large piece of twisted metal near homes that were destroyed in an air strike, in Okash Village, near Sana’a, the capital of Yemen. (Photo: Mohammed Hamoud/UNICEF)2021-07-31T18:10:09+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/03/23/in-thumbs-down-to-sinema-survey-finds-most-americans-support-15-minimum-wage/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/kyrsten_sinema.jpgKyrsten_SinemaSen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) voted against including a $15 federal minimum wage in the American Rescue Plan. (Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr/cc)2021-07-31T17:41:38+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/03/19/on-iraq-war-anniversary-activists-renew-calls-for-us-reparations/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/iraq-war.jpgIraq-WarInvading U.S. Army tanks pass under the Hands of Victory monument in Baghdad, Iraq on November 13, 2003. (Photo: John L. Houghton Jr., USAF)2021-07-31T17:23:49+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/03/17/jayapal-dingell-introduce-medicare-for-all-act-with-112-co-sponsors/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/jayapal-m4a.jpgJayapal-M4ARep. Pramila Jayapal speaks at an event announcing the Medicare for All Act of 2019 outside the United States Capitol on February 27, 2019. (Photo: Public Citizen/Flickr/cc)2021-07-31T16:29:20+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/03/15/100000-australian-women-march-against-sexual-violence/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/march4justice.jpg#March4JusticeWomen and allies rally in Melbourne, Victoria on March 15, 2021 during Australia's mutli-day March 4 Justice against sexual violence and gender discrimination. (Photo: Matt Hrkac/Flickr/cc)2021-07-31T16:12:12+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/03/11/activists-say-oklahoma-bill-declares-open-season-on-protesters/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/blm.pngBLMDemonstrators march in a Black Lives Matter protest in Brooklyn, New York on June 7, 2020. (Photo: Doug Turetsky/Flickr/cc)2021-07-09T17:52:40+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/03/08/rochester-ny-police-again-under-fire-after-officers-pepper-spray-tackle-mother-holding-toddler/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/richester-police.jpgRichester-PoliceA police officer in Rochester, New York has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation into the February 22 pepper-spraying and tackling of a woman who was with her 3-year-old daughter. (Photo: Rochester Police Department)2021-07-09T17:17:20+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2019/07/17/common-dreams-five-men-sentenced-to-life-for-operation-condor-killings-trained-at-school-of-the-americas/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/condor.pngCondorChilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet meets with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 1976. 2021-07-09T04:21:43+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2018/01/12/daily-kos-when-it-comes-to-the-us-and-shithole-countries-its-all-related-and-relative/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/atlantic-city.pngAtlantic CityAmerican "shithole?": Abject poverty is found literally in the shadow of the former Trump Plaza casino/hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey (Photo: Brett Wilkins) 2021-07-09T04:19:58+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2010/12/28/on-this-day-2008-israel-launches-operation-cast-lead-invasion-of-gaza/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/israel-white-phosphorus.jpgIsrael-white-phosphorusAn Israeli white phosphorus attack outside Gaza City during Operation Cast Lead. (Photo: Dale Spencer/Flickr/cc) 2021-06-25T03:47:54+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/02/26/aoc-slams-nypd-deployment-of-digidog-k-9-robot-in-bronx-home/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/digidog.jpgdigidog(Photo: FNTV/YouTube screen grab)2021-06-24T18:59:51+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/02/25/two-decades-after-9-11-new-interactive-map-details-footprint-of-us-war-machine-in-85-countries/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/us-bases.pngUS-basesMap showing US military bases in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia in 2020. (Image: USA Today) 2021-06-24T18:26:53+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/02/23/fight-until-we-win-hundreds-of-thousands-continue-protest-against-myanmar-coup/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/myanmar-2021.jpgMyanmar-2021Protesters rally against the Myanmar coup regime in Yangon on February 9, 2021. (Photo: VOA/Wikimedia Commons) 2021-06-24T04:47:37+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/02/21/sister-dianna-ortiz-us-nun-who-survived-guatemala-torture-and-became-human-rights-champion-dies-at-62/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/dianna-ortiz.pngDianna-OrtizSister Dianna Ortiz at a 1996 press conference. (Photo: AP screen grab/YouTube)2021-06-24T03:31:18+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/02/21/asian-black-progressives-stress-unity-and-understanding-amid-attacks-on-asian-americans/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/asian-black-solidarity.jpgAsian-Black-SolidarityParticipants in the March 21, 2021 New York City Black and Asian Solidarity March. (Photo: NY1 screen grab) 2021-06-24T02:40:27+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/09/20/the-best-defense-against-islamist-terrorism-is-to-give-no-offense/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/afghan-children.pngAfghan-childrenChildren wounded by US bombing of Karam, Afghanistan on October 11, 2001. (Photo: RAWA/Wikemedia Commons) 2021-06-23T19:02:44+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/09/02/daily-kos-hillary-clinton-wants-to-revoke-licenses-of-bad-actor-gun-dealers/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/guns.pnggunsAssault-style semi-automatic rifles on sale at a US gun store. (Photo: Michael Saechang/Flickr Creative Commons) 2021-06-23T18:53:21+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/09/03/daily-kos-nazma-khanam-was-muslim-woman-stabbed-to-death-in-nyc-a-hate-crime-victim/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/nazma.pngNazmahttps://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/nazma-khanam-1.pngNazma Khanamhttps://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/nazma-khanam.pngNazma Khanam2021-06-23T18:52:48+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/09/06/daily-kos-obama-acknowledges-countless-civilians-killed-in-secret-us-bombing-of-laos-pledges-90-million-in-aid/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/laos.pngLaosA mother holds a photo of daughters Paeng (L), age 15, and Piou (R), age 10, who were walking home from school in Thasala village, Laos when Piou handled an unexploded cluster bomblet that detonated. Piou later died from her injuries; Paeng survived but suffered serious injuries. (Photo: Cluster Munition Coalition/Flickr Creative Commons) 2021-06-23T18:52:33+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/09/07/daily-kos-for-524-years-white-invaders-and-oppressors-have-sicced-dogs-on-native-americans-blacks-and-others/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/dogs.pngdogsColumbus and his conquistadors used war dogs to hunt Native Americans and fed live babies to them for amusement and to terrorize the indigenous population into slavery and submission.2021-06-23T18:52:16+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/09/09/daily-kos-us-government-intervenes-after-judge-denies-standing-rock-sioux-request-to-stop-pipeline/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/nodapl.png#nodapl#NoDAPL rally in Seattle, Sept. 16, 2016 (Photo: John Duffy/Flickr Creative Commons) 2021-06-23T18:51:56+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/09/12/daily-kos-us-condemns-but-trump-agrees-with-netanyahu-ethnic-cleansing-claim/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/bulldozer.pngbulldozerCritics have called Israel's demolition of Palestinian homes in the illegally-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem "ethnic cleansing." (Photo: Palestinian Solidarity Project/Flickr Creative Commons) 2021-06-23T18:51:33+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/09/16/daily-kos-president-obama-pardon-edward-snowden/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/snowden.pngsnowden2021-06-23T18:51:18+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/09/22/daily-kos-republican-congressman-says-charlotte-protesters-hate-white-people-because-theyre-successful/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/pittenger.pngpittenger(Photo: Robert Pittenger)2021-06-23T18:51:03+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/09/28/daily-kos-serena-williams-speaks-out-on-police-shootings-i-wont-be-silent/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/serena.pngSerena(Photo: Doha Stadium Plus Qatar/Flickr Creative Commons) 2021-06-23T18:50:45+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2015/12/02/us-admits-guantanamo-detainee-held-13-years-in-mistaken-identity-case/2021-06-23T18:49:14+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2015/12/08/apparent-us-airstrike-kills-26-syrian-civilians/2021-06-23T18:43:30+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2012/12/12/furtherance-us-cold-war-plan-for-all-out-nuclear-war-against-potentially-innocent-nations-revealed/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/nuclear-explosion.jpgnuclear-explosion(Photo: Pierre J/Flickr/cc)2021-06-23T05:16:36+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2013/01/09/us-contractor-l-3-agrees-to-pay-5-28-million-to-iraqis-in-abu-ghraib-torture-settlement/2021-06-23T05:04:36+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2015/01/27/obamas-sickening-saudi-homage-is-an-object-lesson-in-us-hypocrisy/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/obama-king-abdullah.jpgObama-King-AbdullahPresident Barack Obama meets Saudi King Abdullah on July 6, 2014. (Photo: U.S. Embassy Riyadh/Wikimedia Commons) 2021-06-23T04:53:38+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2012/12/10/us-admits-imprisoning-hundreds-of-afghan-children/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/parwan-detention-center.jpgParwan-Detention-CenterA U.S. soldier on duty at Parwan Detention Facility in Afghanistan. (Photo: U.S. Embassy Kabul/Flickr/cc)2021-06-23T04:40:16+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2015/01/22/israel-fights-back-against-icc-gaza-war-crimes-inquiry/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/gaza-boys.jpgGaza-BoysPalestinians carry one of four boys killed by Israeli shelling at a beach in Gaza on July 16, 2014. (Photo: Democracy Now! screen grab) 2021-06-23T04:13:01+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2015/01/29/un-condemns-israeli-killing-of-spanish-peacekeeper-in-lebanon/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/un-peacekeepers.jpgUN-PeacekeepersMemorial service at the Beirut International Airport for UNIFIL peacekeeper Lance Corporal Francisco Javier Soria Toledo, who lost his life on 28 January 2015 in the line of duty in southern Lebanon. (Photo: UNIFIL)2021-06-23T03:40:26+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2015/01/08/business-insider-gop-senators-say-paris-attack-justifies-nsa-surveillance/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/nsa.pngNSANational Security Agency headquarters; Ft. Meade, Maryland (NSA photo)2021-06-23T03:23:26+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/02/19/us-farmers-and-food-justice-groups-declare-solidarity-with-indian-farmer-protest/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/india-protest.jpgIndia-protestThe Indian farmer demonstrations have been called the biggest protest in history. (Photo: Randeep Maddoke/WikiMedia Commons)2021-06-05T01:45:14+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/02/19/dirty-and-dangerous-new-data-show-higher-rates-of-contamination-in-pork-plants-using-new-slaughter-system/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/meat-plant.jpgMeat-Plant(Photo: Democracy Now! screen grab) 2021-06-05T01:25:34+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/02/17/after-vowing-no-more-blank-checks-for-trumps-favorite-dictator-biden-seeks-200-million-arms-sale-to-egypt/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/mohamed-soltan.jpgMohamed-SoltanRelatives of Egyptian American dissident Mohamed Soltan—a former political prisoner of the Abdel Fattah el-Sisi regime—were arrested by Egyptian authorities on Sunday. (Photo: April Brady/Project on Middle East Democracy/Flickr/cc2021-06-05T00:47:34+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/02/12/un-report-warns-millions-of-yemeni-children-face-acute-malnutrition/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/yemen-famine.jpgYemen-famineA severely malnourished 7-month-old Yemeni boy is given formula by his mother at the Al-Sadaqa Hospital in Aden, Yemen, on Feb. 13, 2018. (Photo: Felton Davis/Flickr/cc2021-06-04T23:56:14+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/02/04/protesters-tacklehomelessness-outside-san-franciscos-super-bowl-city/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/broke-ass-stuart.jpgBroke-Ass Stuart2021-05-19T06:05:26+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2015/11/30/more-americans-are-shot-by-toddlers-than-by-muslim-terrorists/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/adam-lanza.pngAdam-LanzaAdam Lanza, long before he killed 26 people including 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14, 2012. (Photo: Connecticut Dept. of Emergency Services and Public Protection)2021-05-19T05:40:17+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2018/07/16/counterpunch-the-lydda-death-march-and-the-israeli-state-of-denial/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/nakba.pngnakbaPalestinian women and children flee their homes forever during the 1948-49 Jewish ethnic cleansing campaign Arabs call the Nakba, or "catastrophe." 2021-05-15T17:00:48+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/02/05/under-pretext-of-pandemic-babies-born-in-us-legal-american-citizens-expelled-with-mothers-to-mexico/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/border.jpgborderView of the U.S.-Mexico border, with San Diego County to the left and Tijuana to the right. (Photo: Gordon Hyde, U.S. Army) 2021-04-23T17:46:19+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/01/29/yemeni-families-file-petition-against-us-for-unlawful-killing-of-scores-of-relatives/2021-03-19T18:39:50+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/01/28/peace-not-going-to-break-out-anytime-soon-raytheon-ceo-sees-solid-growth-in-middle-east/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/paveway_ii_p1230135.jpgPaveway_II_p1230135A Raytheon Paveway II laser-guided bomb on display at the 2007 Paris Air Show. (Photo: David Monniaux/WikiMedia Commons) 2021-03-19T18:15:57+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/01/22/rights-advocates-alarmed-by-us-spy-agencys-purchase-of-warrantless-phone-location-data/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/dia-2.jpgDIA-2Defense Intelligence Agency headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Photo: WikiMedia Commons)2021-03-03T20:14:59+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/01/21/advocates-hail-biden-executive-order-on-lgbtq-rights-as-the-most-far-reaching-in-us-history/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/pride.jpgprideIn addition to signing an executive order strengthening federal LGBTQ protections on the first day of his presidency, President Joe Biden intends to end the U.S. military's ban on transgender service members in the coming days and weeks. (Photo: Ted Eytan/Flickr/cc)2021-02-27T02:02:56+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/01/20/joy-relief-and-healing-as-biden-ends-trumps-racist-muslim-ban-in-day-one-executive-order/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/biden.jpgBidenPresident Joe Biden signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House. (Photo: White House) 2021-02-26T22:57:27+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/01/18/israeli-human-rights-group-pushes-back-after-government-retaliates-against-apartheid-label/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/wall.jpgwallPalestinian workers queue up along the separation barrier often called the apartheid wall by critics as they wait to clear an Israeli military checkpoint. (Photo: delayed gratification/Flickr/cc)2021-02-14T17:55:44+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/01/14/aclu-says-new-ig-report-shows-just-how-far-trump-was-willing-to-go-to-destroy-immigrant-families/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/migrants.jpgmigrants(Photo: Democracy Now! screen grab)2021-02-14T17:40:35+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2011/01/09/on-this-day-1962-us-begins-9-year-agent-orange-chemical-warfare-campaign-against-vietnamese-people/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/agent-orange.pngAgent OrangeU.S. Army Huey helicopter spraying Agent Orange over agricultural land during the Vietnam War. (Photo: National Archives) 2021-02-14T17:20:56+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2012/12/06/on-this-day-1982-us-backed-guatemalan-forces-massacre-200-villagers-at-dos-erres/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/dos-erres.jpgDos ErresGuatemalan Defense Minister Gen Juan Jose Ruiz and Dos Erres survivor Christina Alfaro at President Colom’s apology ceremony in December 2011. (Photo: Guatemalan government/Flickr Creative Commons)2021-02-14T17:18:11+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/01/14/bond-modification-sought-after-alleged-kenosha-killer-kyle-rittenhouse-drinks-beer-flashes-white-power-signs-with-proud-boys/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/rittenhouse-1.jpgrittenhouse-1Alleged Kenosha killer Kyle Rittenhouse was seen drinking and flashing white signs with apparent Proud Boys supporters in a bar on January 5, 2021. (Photo: Kenosha County District Attorney) 2021-02-11T02:14:20+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/01/08/black-woman-viciously-attacked-by-maga-mob-in-downtown-los-angeles-in-broad-daylight/2021-02-03T19:47:56+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/01/07/white-privilege-on-steroids-anger-over-difference-in-treatment-of-maga-mob-black-lives-matter/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/attack.jpgattackSupporters of President Donald Trump and his "stolen election" lie invade the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021. (Photo: Blink o'fanaye/Flickr/cc) 2021-02-03T18:51:38+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/01/06/citing-open-sedition-rep-ilhan-omar-vows-trump-impeachment-resolution/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/riot.pngriotSupporters of President Donald Trump clash with police officers outside the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. (Photo: Blink o'fanaye/Flickr/cc)2021-01-22T20:09:11+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/01/05/federal-judge-blocks-trump-order-targeting-lawyers-supporting-icc-afghan-war-crimes-probe/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/icc.jpgICCInternational Criminal Court headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands. (Photo: jbdodane/Flickr/cc)2021-01-22T03:10:30+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2021/01/04/proud-boys-sued-by-historic-black-dc-church-after-leader-admits-burning-black-lives-matter-sign-during-rally/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/pb-1.pngpbProud Boys and supporters in Washington, D.C. on December 12, 2020. 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(State Department Photo by Ron Przysucha)2021-01-06T07:38:58+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/12/24/black-doctor-who-died-of-covid-19-posted-harrowing-video-alleging-medical-racism/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/moore-1.pngMoore2021-01-01T21:25:11+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/12/23/experts-blast-trump-plan-to-sell-nearly-500-million-in-arms-to-criminal-saudi-regime/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/s2_yemen_funeral_destruction.jpgS2_Yemen_Funeral_DestructionAftermath of an October 2016 Saudi-led airstrike on a funeral in the Yemeni capital of Sana'a that killed more than 140 mourners and wounded another 500. (Photo: Democracy Now! screen grab)2021-01-01T21:08:59+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/12/23/senior-un-human-rights-official-deeply-concerned-by-trumps-pardons-for-mercenaries-who-massacred-17-iraqi-civilians/2020-12-29T20:24:14+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2018/12/21/antiwar-com-former-blackwater-guard-found-guilty-of-murder-for-role-in-nisour-square-massacre/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Nisour-Square.pngNisour Square2020-12-23T01:38:43+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2019/08/16/antiwar-com-ex-blackwater-guard-nicholas-slatten-sentenced-to-life-for-nisour-square-massacre/2020-12-23T01:38:25+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/12/17/guantanamo-defense-attorney-implores-biden-to-stop-cycle-of-impunity-by-holding-trump-accountable-for-his-crimes/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/gitmo.jpggitmoPrisoners at the former Camp X-Ray, Guantánamo Bay. 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(Photo: Ania Tuzel Photography/Flickr/cc) 2020-12-20T05:22:22+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/12/11/trump-deal-to-trade-western-sahara-for-morocco-normalizing-ties-with-israel-denounced-worldwide/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/sahrawi.pngSahrawiA Sahrawi man proudly flies his nation's flag. (Photo: Michele Benericetti/WikiMedia Commons) https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/sahrawi_with_flag.jpgSahrawi_with_flagA Sahrawi man proudly flies his nation's flag. (Photo: Michele Benericetti/WikiMedia Commons) 2020-12-20T02:06:50+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/12/09/nina-turner-files-to-run-for-congress/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/nina_turner.pngNina_Turner(Photo: Nikolas Liepins/Flickr/cc)2020-12-19T23:37:23+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/12/09/with-ohio-house-seat-opening-progressives-say-congresswoman-nina-turner-has-a-nice-ring-to-it/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/tunrer.pngTunrerFormer Cleveland City Councilwoman, Ohio State Senator, Our Revolution president, and Bernie Sanders presidential campaign national co-chair Nina Turner is a progressive favorite who is being urged to run for the U.S. House seat being vacated by Rep. Marcia Fudge's nomination as President-elect Joe Biden's secretary of housing and urban development. (Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr/cc) 2020-12-18T06:50:26+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/12/08/top-un-anti-torture-official-urges-julian-assanges-release/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/freeassange-1.pngfreeassange(Photo: Daniel C./Flickr/cc)2020-12-13T04:50:33+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/12/07/report-blames-trump-administration-for-330-rise-in-afghan-civilian-casualties/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/screen-shot-2020-12-12-at-9.31.58-am.pngScreen Shot 2020-12-12 at 9.31.58 AM2020-12-12T17:32:55+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/12/04/indigenous-water-protectors-take-direct-action-against-minnesota-tar-sands-pipeline/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/protectors_0.jpgprotectors_0Hundreds of Indigenous and allied people gathered on the shore of Gichi-gami (Lake Superior) on September 27, 2019 to protest the Enbridge Line 3 tar sands pipeline. (Photo: Fibonacci Blue/Flickr/cc) 2020-12-10T19:50:53+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/12/04/155-years-after-abolition-slavery-is-still-legal-in-the-united-states-democratic-lawmakers-are-trying-to-fix-that/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/prisonlabor.pngprisonlaborPrison labor in a UNICOR (Federal Prison Industries) Program. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) 2020-12-10T15:58:05+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/12/03/director-of-national-intelligence-admits-government-used-section-215-to-track-browsing-history/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/section215wheeler.jpgsection215wheelerProtesters march in a demonstration demanding an end to government mass surveillance in Washington, D.C. on October 26, 2013. (Photo: Susan Melkisethian/Flickr/cc)2020-12-10T07:59:32+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/12/03/indian-farmers-continue-historic-protests-after-250-million-people-rise-up-against-modis-neoliberal-policies/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/india.pngIndiaNational central trade union leaders protesting in Delhi during the November 26, 2020 general strike. (Photo: IndustriALL Global Union/Flickr/cc)2020-12-10T07:41:55+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/12/03/poll-two-thirds-of-americans-favor-raising-taxes-on-incomes-over-400k/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/tax_plan_trump_rich.jpgtax_plan_trump_rich(Photo: Michael Fleshman/Flickr/cc) 2020-12-09T20:43:11+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/12/02/new-data-show-income-of-top-0-1-soared-345-while-that-of-bottom-90-stagnated-over-past-40-years/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/ac.jpgac2020-12-09T00:30:44+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/12/01/israel-releases-mays-abu-ghosh-palestinian-student-jailed-for-membership-in-leftist-campus-group/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/mays.pngmaysMays Abu Ghosh embraces a loved one just after her release from 15 months in torturous Israeli custody on November 30, 2020. (Photo: Ultra Palestine/YouTube screen grab)2020-12-08T21:38:08+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/12/01/new-satellite-data-reveal-brazilian-amazon-deforestation-at-12-year-high/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/logging.jpgloggingAn illegal Amazon logging operation on land belonging to the Pirititi Indigenous people in Roraima state, Brazil, seen in an aerial photograph taken on May 8, 2018. (Photo: Felipe Werneck/flickr/cc)2020-12-06T20:09:14+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/11/30/a-kind-of-terrorism-israel-human-rights-groups-offer-harrowing-look-at-idf-night-raids-on-palestinian-homes/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/nightraid.jpgnightraid(Democracy Now! screen grab) 2020-12-06T07:37:48+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/11/25/with-brutal-memories-of-standing-rock-stop-line-3-campaigners-wary-of-rule-against-counterinsurgency-tactics/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/pipe.pngpipeProtest against the Enbridge Line3 pipeline on September 28, 2019 in Duluth, Minnesota. (Photo: Fibonacci Blue/Flickr/cc)2020-12-06T06:54:40+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/12/02/martyred-missionaries-the-lives-and-legacies-of-maura-clarke-jean-donovan-ita-ford-and-dorothy-kazel/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/nuns.jpgOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAMartyrs: Clockwise from top right—Ita Ford, Jean Donovan, Maura Clarke, and Dorothy Kazelhttps://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/missionaries.jpgmissionariesFrom left to right – Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, Ita Ford, and Dorothy Kazel. (Photo: Maryknoll Sisters)2021-02-08T03:01:22+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/11/23/feminismnotmilitarism-peace-groups-blast-bidens-dni-pick-over-links-to-drones-torture-mass-surveillance/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/haines.jpgHainesDec. 5, 2015 "A rare moment of weekend laughter with the President's key national security aides, from left, National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice, Homeland Security Advisor Lisa Monaco, and Deputy National Security Avril Haines as they joke about a cartoon in the New Yorker that resembled the three women." (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) L to R: Susan E. Rice, Avril Haines, Lisa Monaco2020-12-02T05:44:53+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/11/20/rich-nations-put-big-pharma-over-public-health-by-rejecting-wto-patent-waivers-amid-pandemic/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/world-trade-organisation-headquarters-2.jpgWorld-Trade-Organisation-headquarters-2World Trade Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. (Photo: WTO)2020-11-28T20:28:13+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/11/19/washington-post-publishes-names-details-of-1400-civilians-killed-in-us-led-bombings-of-isis/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/usledairstrikes.jpgusledairstrikesU.S.-led airstrikes have killed thousands of Syrian and Iraqi civilians since 2014. (Photo: Democracy Now! screen grab)2020-11-28T20:09:38+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/11/19/jewish-led-groups-condemn-pompeo-for-declaring-bds-movement-anti-semitic/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/pompeo_netanyahu.jpgPompeo_NetanyahuU.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on November 19, 2020. (Photo: U.S. Embassy Israel) 2020-11-28T19:46:39+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/11/18/billionaire-bonanza-continues-as-pandemic-recession-and-gop-relief-refusal/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/worker.pngworkerWorkers rights protest in Philadelphia on June 22, 2020. (Photo: Joe Piette/Flickr cc) 2020-11-22T02:52:00+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/11/16/trump-rushes-to-auction-off-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge-drilling-rights-before-biden-inauguration/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/anwr-caribou_1_0_0.jpganwr-caribou_1_0_0Caribou graze on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. 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(Photo: Bilal Abdul Kareeem/Twitter)2020-11-16T18:08:42+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/11/10/codepink-defends-senate-candidate-raphael-warnock-after-opponents-anti-semitism-smear/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/warnock.pngWarnock(Photo: Raphael Warnock for Senate)2020-11-16T01:27:16+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/11/09/lawyers-cant-reunite-666-seized-migrant-children-with-their-parents-121-more-than-previously-believed/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ice-children.jpgICE childrenPhoto provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to reporters on tour of a child detention facility in McAllen, Texas. Reporters were not allowed to take their own photos. 2020-11-16T00:40:29+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/11/09/from-police-violence-at-home-to-killing-civilians-abroad-us-faces-human-rights-reckoning-at-un/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/un_geneva.pngUN_GenevaUnited Nations; Geneva, Switzerland. (Photo: eGuide Travel/Flickr cc) 2020-11-16T00:23:03+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2013/01/31/one-nation-under-allah-colorado-high-school-students-recite-pledge-of-allegiance-in-arabic-outrage-ensues/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/screen-shot-2020-11-15-at-12.47.56-pm.pngScreen Shot 2020-11-15 at 12.47.56 PMStudents pledging allegiance to the U.S. flag. (Photo: Steven Hoover/Flickr cc)2020-11-15T20:51:51+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2010/12/31/mlg-top-10-of-2010/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/bp.pngBPThe April 20, 2010 explosion and fire resulted in the sinking of BP's Deepwater Horizon mobile offshore drilling unit and the deaths of 11 workers; 17 others were injured. 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(Photo: B'Tselem/Democracy Now! screen grab) 2020-11-12T22:08:18+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/11/03/rising-up-with-sonali-live-election-day-coverage/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/risingup.pngrisingup2020-11-10T22:17:50+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/11/04/protesters-from-coast-to-coast-urge-election-officials-to-count-every-vote/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/h4-hundreds-arrested-protests-against-trump-bid-steal-election.jpgh4-hundreds-arrested-protests-against-trump-bid-steal-election(Photo: Democracy Now! screen grab) 2020-11-06T04:37:23+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/11/04/outrageous-unprecedented-biden-campaign-blasts-trumps-false-election-night-claims-of-victory-and-fraud/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/trump.pngtrump2020-11-04T10:38:38+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/11/02/more-than-80-historians-of-fascism-and-authoritarianism-issue-open-letter-of-warning/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/boogaloo.pngBoogalooMembers of the right-wing militia group Boogaloo Boys at a gun rights rally in Richmond, Virginia on January 20, 2020. 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(Photo: Glenn Beltz/Flickr cc) 2021-06-09T07:17:49+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/10/12/unrwa-chief-says-palestinian-suffering-dual-pandemics-of-covid-19-and-poverty/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/news_article_91716_37396_1557996560.jpgnews_article_91716_37396_1557996560©UNRWA Gaza 2017 UNRWA Photo by Rushdi Al-Sarraj2020-10-20T02:07:44+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/10/09/trump-hails-covid-19-drug-he-took-made-possible-by-fetal-cell-research-gop-opposes/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/limo.jpglimoPresident Donald J. Trump greets supporters during a drive by outside of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020, in Bethesda, Md. 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(Photo: FracTracker/Flickr cc)2020-10-04T15:32:53+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/09/30/life-in-supermax-for-the-crime-of-journalism-uk-court-told-assange-likely-to-be-sent-to-notorious-us-prison/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/assange.pngAssangeWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at an anti-war protest in Trafalgar Square, London on October 8, 2011. 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(Photo: Aqua Mechanical/Flickr cc) 2020-10-01T05:46:11+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/09/23/us-guyana-maritime-patrols-near-venezuela-border-denounced-as-latest-american-imperialism/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/guyana.pngguyanaSecretary of State Michael Pompeo and Guyanese Foreign Minister Hugh Todd participate in the Growth in America Agreement Signing Ceremony, in Georgetown, Guyana, on September 18, 2020. (State Department Photo by Ron Przysucha)2020-10-01T05:42:15+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/09/22/sanders-leads-30-democrats-in-call-for-oas-to-avoid-prolonging-crisis-of-democracy-and-human-rights-in-bolivia/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/seg2-bolivia-clashes.jpgSEG2-Bolivia-ClashesAfter the resignation of President Evo Morales, Bolivian state security forces brutally crushed overwhelmingly peaceful protests with deadly force, killing dozens of demonstrators, many of them Indigenous people. 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Eddins Jr.)2020-09-12T00:24:05+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/09/02/ilhan-omar-and-rashida-tlaib-join-calls-for-joy-reid-apology-after-host-compares-trump-to-violent-muslims/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/reid.pngreid(MSNBC screen grab) 2020-09-11T23:06:10+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/07/02/common-dreams-new-icc-complaint-filed-over-us-israel-war-crimes-in-palestine/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/annexation.pngannexationThousands of Palestinian-Americans and their supporters march in Brooklyn, New York City on July 1 to protest Israel's planned annexation of some 30 percent of the West Bank. (Photo: Joe Catron/Flickr Creative Commons) 2020-09-11T13:28:02+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/07/16/antiwar-com-new-sas-war-crimes-revealed-as-australia-braces-for-report/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/oz.pngOzAustralian troops on patrol in Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan. (Photo: Petty Officer 1st Class John Collins?Wikimedia Commons)2020-09-11T13:27:12+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/07/24/massacre-at-no-gun-ri/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/refugees1-1.pngrefugees1Korean refugees fleeing for the relative safety of points south, January 1951. (Photo: United Nations) 2023-03-16T16:44:55+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/07/28/sfpd-used-business-cameras-for-mass-surveillance-of-black-lives-matter-protests/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/cameras.pngcameras2020-09-11T13:23:10+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/07/28/common-dreams-the-breathtaking-hypocrisy-of-the-us-condemning-an-afghan-air-strike/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/zk.pngZKUS Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad. (Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr Creative Commons) 2020-09-11T13:22:27+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/07/31/counterpunch-the-bologna-massacre-the-strategy-of-tension-and-operation-gladio/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/bologna.pngBolognaImmediate aftermath of the August 2, 1980 bombing of the Bologna central train station. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) 2020-09-11T13:21:39+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/08/04/africom-denies-reports-of-3-somali-children-killed-in-us-strike/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/jilib.jpgJilibDamage from the July 29 US air strike in Jilib, Somalia that, according to local media reports, killed 3 children. (Photo: Twitter) 2020-09-11T13:20:37+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/08/06/nuclear-war-or-invasion-the-false-dichotomy-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/hiroshima.jpgHiroshimaHiroshima in the aftermath of the August 6, 1945 atomic bombing by the United States. (Photo: US Department of Energy) 2020-09-11T13:17:21+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/09/01/red-mirage-democratic-data-firm-predicts-post-election-chaos-over-false-trump-landslide/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ballot.pngballotA special ballot mailbox in Oregon. (Photo: Chris Phan/Wikimedia Commons) 2020-09-11T04:26:40+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/08/31/california-bill-to-help-prisoner-firefighters-find-work-after-release-awaits-governors-signature/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/prisonfire.pngprisonfireWomen prisoner firefighters in California. (Photo: Democracy Now screen grab) 2020-09-11T04:01:16+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/08/10/teaching-torture-the-death-and-legacy-of-dan-mitrione/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/kubark-2.pngKUBARKTestinghttps://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/mitrione.jpgMitrioneUSAID torture trainer Dan Mitrione (1920-1970) was kidnapped and executed by Tupamaro rebels in Montevideo, Uruguay in August, 1970. (US government photo) 2020-09-11T03:20:27+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/08/31/public-health-experts-sound-alarm-over-fda-willingness-to-roll-out-covid-19-vaccine-before-finishing-phase-3-trials/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/lab.pnglab(Photo: Sokomoto Photography for IAVI)https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/vax.pngvax(Photo: Democracy Now/CC) 2020-09-11T03:15:54+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/08/25/common-dreams-as-israeli-bombing-of-gaza-continues-us-media-show-little-interest/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/gaza-bombing.jpgGaza-BombingIsrael is bombing Gaza again, but you wouldn't know it from watching the US corporate media news. (Photo: FAIR)2020-09-10T17:19:31+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/08/26/common-dreams-study-suggests-60-of-antarctic-ice-shelves-face-fracture-risk/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ice.pngiceThe melting Thwaites ice shelf in Antarctica taken during an October 2013 aerial survey. (Photo: James Yungel/NASA)2020-09-10T17:18:57+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/08/27/common-dreams-harris-vows-biden-would-never-place-conditions-on-us-military-aid-to-israel/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/biden_bibi.pngBiden_BibiThen-vice president Joe Biden holds a joint news conference after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on March 9, 2016. (Photo: US Embassy Tel Aviv) 2020-09-10T17:13:04+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/08/27/common-dreams-outrage-grows-over-police-treatment-of-alleged-kenosha-killer-kyle-rittenhouse-compared-to-shooting-victim-jacob-blake/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/rittenhouse.pngRittenhouse2020-09-10T17:11:58+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/08/28/common-dreams-bezos-now-worth-200-billion-as-millions-struggle-to-afford-essentials/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/bezos-1.pngBezos(Photo: Grant Miller/Flickr Creative Commons) https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/bezos.pngBezosJeff Bezos has become the world's first multi-centibillionaire. (Photo: Steve Jurvetson/Flickr Creative Commons) 2020-09-10T17:10:16+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/08/30/jeff-bezos-worlds-first-multi-centibillionaire-or-new-zealand-in-a-man/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/bezos-by-steve-jurvetson.pngBezos by Steve JurvetsonAccording to the business research firm Comparisun, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is projected to become the world's first trillionaire — that's $1,000,000,000,000 — by the year 2026. (Photo: Steve Jurvetson/Flickr Creative Commons)2020-09-10T17:09:29+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/09/08/collective-20-interview-with-mary-wareham-campaign-to-stop-killer-robots/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/wareham.jpgWarehamMary Wareham of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots (Photo: Sharron Ward/Campaign to Stop Killer Robots/CC)2020-09-10T17:08:40+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/08/28/common-dreams-ronnie-long-wrongfully-convicted-by-all-white-jury-freed-after-44-years-in-prison/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/long.pngLongRonnie Long, 64, was realeased from prison on August 27, 2020 after serving 44 years behind bars for a rape he did not commit. (Photo: Democracy Now/Creative Commons) 2020-09-10T17:02:58+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/08/07/the-scott-horton-show-brett-wilkins-on-the-false-dichotomy-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/2020-08-25T03:42:17+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2014/12/10/phoenix-police-name-officer-who-killed-rumain-brisbon-as-protests-continue/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/mark-rine-1.pngMark RinePhoenix police officer Mark Rine, right, poses in this 2012 photo with Chief Daniel Garcia, left. (Phoenix Police Department photo) 2020-08-22T00:41:56+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2012/09/06/hrw-us-tortured-gaddafi-opponents-rendered-them-to-libya/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/lifg.pngLIFGMembers of Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) 2020-07-25T22:20:48+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2012/09/05/us-drone-strike-kills-13-yemeni-civilians/2020-07-25T22:04:24+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2012/08/24/chicago-19-people-shot-in-one-night-13-in-30-minutes/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/chicago.pngChicago(Photo: Supaflyrobby/Wikimedia Commons) 2020-07-19T06:30:58+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2012/08/22/israel-arrests-teen-girls-for-brutal-hate-attack-on-palestinians/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/zion-square.pngZion SquareZion Square, Jerusalem (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) 2020-07-19T05:59:17+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2012/08/17/obamas-pussy-riot-hypocrisy/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/pussy-riot.pngPussy Riot(Photo: Pussy Riot/Wikimedia Commons) 2020-07-19T05:19:52+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/06/12/common-dreams-sen-elizabeth-warren-and-rep-ro-khanna-introduce-bill-to-increase-military-accountability-for-civilian-casualties/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/screen-shot-2020-06-12-at-10.15.30-am.pngScreen Shot 2020-06-12 at 10.15.30 AM2020-07-08T08:07:32+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2012/08/12/israeli-sniper-to-get-45-days-in-jail-for-gaza-civilian-deaths/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/idf.pngIDF(Photo: Israel Defense Forces) 2020-07-04T02:08:01+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2012/08/09/mitt-romney-started-bain-capital-with-money-from-death-squad-backers/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/romney.pngRomney(Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr Creative Commons) 2020-07-04T01:45:02+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2012/08/08/reason-or-satan-gaining-ground-as-global-religiosity-slides/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/religion.pngreligion(Photo: Московская духовная академия/Flickr Creative Commons) 2020-07-04T01:17:53+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2012/08/08/texas-executes-mentally-retarded-man/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/marvin-wilson.pngMarvin Wilson2020-07-04T00:40:13+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2015/07/14/us-psychologists-support-for-torture-was-literally-by-the-book/2020-07-03T21:32:18+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2012/08/04/same-sex-marriage-supporters-hold-kiss-in-at-phoenix-chick-fil-a/2020-07-01T22:47:46+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/06/17/delbert-africa-rest-in-power/2020-06-27T21:01:13+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/06/16/antiwar-com-us-to-reinterpret-arms-pact-to-sell-more-drones/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/reaper.pngReaperBritish Royal Air Force Reaper drone at Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan (Photo: Cpl. Steve Follows/Royal Air Force) 2020-06-18T00:18:10+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/06/11/common-dreams-spain-trial-begins-for-former-salvadoran-colonel-accused-of-89-jesuit-massacre/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/montano.pngMontanoFormer Salvadoran colonel Inocente Orlando Montano is facing murder charges in Spain for his alleged role in the 1989 massacre of 8 civilians. (Photo: Democracy Now/Creative Commons) 2020-06-12T05:40:42+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/05/22/the-scott-horton-show-brett-wilkins-on-project-shad-and-americas-secret-bioweapons-programs/2020-06-11T16:03:09+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/05/30/oakland-feels-the-bern-as-sanders-barnstorms-the-bay-area/2020-05-25T19:05:36+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2014/05/06/digital-journal-10-years-after-abu-ghraib-no-justice-for-torturers-tortured/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/abu-ghraib-dog.jpgAbu Ghraib dog2020-05-25T07:40:57+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2018/08/08/the-american-conservative-what-dirt-does-russia-have-on-barack-obama/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/amcon.pngAmConPresident Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin walk to the G8 Summit dinner following their bilateral meeting in Ireland in June 2013. (White House photo) 2020-05-25T07:08:43+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/06/02/guantanamo-judge-conspired-with-military-prosecutors-to-destroy-evidence-in-ksm-case/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ksm.pngKSMThe judge in charge of GITMO military tribunals "effectively conspired" with prosecutors to destroy evidence related to the case of alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (shown here), the Guardian reports. (Pentagon photo) 2020-05-21T22:42:35+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2013/04/27/twice-destroyed-clergy-sex-abuse-memorial-to-be-re-dedicated/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/mendham.pngMendham(Photo: BishopAccountability) 2020-05-21T00:25:55+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2013/05/10/newark-archdiocese-pays-650k-to-settle-priest-sex-abuse-claims/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/sita.pngSitaRev. Carmen Sita 2020-05-20T23:54:30+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/05/15/digital-journal-87-syrian-civilians-reportedly-killed-in-latest-us-led-strikes/2020-05-19T06:39:32+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/05/26/digital-journal-monitor-us-bombing-killing-more-syrians-than-assad-air-strikes/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/bombing.pngbombingUS-led coalition bombing of Kobane, Syria. (Photo: VOA News/Wikimedia Commons) 2020-05-19T06:18:55+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/05/12/digital-journal-monitor-us-led-bombing-kills-at-least-50-more-syrian-civilians/2020-05-19T06:18:50+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/04/25/digital-journal-us-led-air-strikes-killing-families-in-tabaqa-syria/2020-05-19T06:16:36+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/05/27/digital-journal-106-syrians-including-47-children-die-in-us-air-strikes/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/airstrike.pngairstrike(USAF photo by Staff Sgt. Aaron Allmon)2020-05-19T06:11:29+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/05/30/digital-journal-mattis-more-civilians-will-die-in-us-annihilation-of-is/2020-05-19T06:08:16+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/05/10/digital-journal-iraq-syria-hundreds-more-civilian-casualties-in-coalition-war/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Raqqa.pngRaqqaRaqqa has been devastated by US-led coalition bombing and shelling, as well as by Islamic State militants. (Photo: Mahmoud Bali/VOA)2020-05-19T05:58:41+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/06/14/digital-journal-un-blasts-staggering-loss-of-life-from-us-bombing-of-raqqa/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/raqqa.pngRaqqa2020-05-19T05:58:35+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/06/14/digital-journal-monitor-us-led-coalition-killing-the-most-syrian-civilians/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/strike.pngstrike(US Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Daniel Hughes/Flickr Creative Commons) 2020-05-19T05:56:29+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/06/12/digital-journal-us-led-forces-apparently-use-white-phosphorus-in-anti-is-fight/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/white-phosphorus1.pngwhite phosphorusWhite phosphorus round fired by Israeli forces during the 2008-2009 Cast Lead invasion of Gaza explode over a densely-populated urban neighborhood. (Photo: AFP)2020-05-19T05:56:29+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/06/19/digital-journal-coalition-kills-hundreds-more-civilians-in-final-fight-for-mosul/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/mosul-damage.pngMosul damage(PBS News Hour screen grab) 2020-05-19T05:49:17+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/07/09/digital-journal-band-whose-song-tortured-detainees-plays-at-gitmo-freedom-fest/2020-05-19T05:41:16+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/04/20/digital-journal-us-coalition-attacks-kill-hundreds-more-iraqi-syrian-civilians/2020-05-18T07:06:35+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2013/02/06/digital-journal-venezuela-donates-free-heating-oil-to-100000-needy-us-households/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/chavez.pngchavezVenezuelan President Hugo Chávez (Photo: Miraflores Palace) 2020-05-18T07:00:46+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/05/31/digital-journal-report-200-iraqi-civilians-die-as-coalition-strikes-pound-mosul/2020-05-18T06:45:30+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/01/28/digital-journal-hundreds-in-sf-protest-trumps-keystone-xl-dapl-orders/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/nodapl.pngNoDAPL(Photo: Brett Wilkins) 2020-05-18T06:37:26+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2015/11/24/digital-journal-anne-frank-was-a-refugee-who-was-denied-asylum-in-the-us-2/2020-05-18T06:27:36+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2015/08/04/digital-journal-obama-administration-gives-slavery-a-free-pass-in-favored-nations/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/razak-kerry.pngRazak KerryUS Secretary of State John Kerry meets Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak in Kuala Lumpur, October 11, 2013 (State Department photo by William Ng)2020-05-18T06:27:20+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2015/07/10/digital-journal-remembering-the-confederate-flag-or-my-first-kkk-rally/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/bw-kkk.pngBW KKK2020-05-18T06:22:22+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2015/07/09/digital-journal-obama-accepts-malaysia-slavery-in-order-to-seal-tpp-deal/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/obama-razak.pngObama RazakPresident Barack Obama meets with Prime Minister Najib Razak at the Prime Minister's residence in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April 27, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)2020-05-18T06:22:15+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2015/01/07/moral-low-ground-its-the-religion-stupid/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ffrf.pngFFRF(Photo: Wikipedia) 2020-05-18T06:13:10+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2014/12/17/moral-low-ground-obama-us-cuba-to-restore-relations/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/obama1.pngObama(Photo: Christopher Dilts/Flickr Creative Commons) 2020-05-18T06:07:40+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2014/12/16/digital-journal-dick-cheney-admits-some-cia-terror-suspects-were-innocent/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/cheney.pngCheney2020-05-18T06:06:37+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2014/12/12/moral-low-ground-the-enduring-ticking-time-bomb-torture-myth/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ticking-time-bomb.pngticking time bomb(Image: Deviant Art/Flickr Creative Commons) 2020-05-18T06:05:22+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2014/05/22/digital-journal-interview-us-senate-candidate-kesha-rogers/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/screen-shot-2019-09-28-at-8.51.17-am.pngScreen Shot 2019-09-28 at 8.51.17 AM2020-05-18T06:02:32+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2014/04/08/digital-journal-rand-paul-dick-cheney-pushed-for-iraq-war-to-benefit-halliburton/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/rand-paul.pngRand Paul(Photo: Jamelle Bouie) 2020-05-18T05:40:58+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2014/03/10/digital-journal-desmond-tutu-urges-boycott-of-apartheid-israel/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/desmond-tutu.pngDesmond Tutu2020-05-18T05:33:54+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2014/02/14/digital-journal-phoenix-mayor-greg-stanton-on-ending-chronic-veteran-homelessness/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/stanton.pngStanton(Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr Creative Commons) 2020-05-17T23:06:41+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2014/02/13/digital-journal-how-phoenix-ended-chronic-veteran-homelessness/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/stanton2.pngStanton2(Photo: Christopher Leone) 2020-05-17T23:06:36+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2014/02/12/digital-journal-interview-canadian-federation-of-nurses-unions-president-linda-silas/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/screen-shot-2019-09-28-at-9.15.07-am.pngScreen Shot 2019-09-28 at 9.15.07 AM(Photo: Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions) 2020-05-17T22:59:30+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2014/02/11/digital-journal-interview-canadian-medical-association-president-dr-louis-hugo-francescutti/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/screen-shot-2019-09-28-at-9.38.57-am.pngScreen Shot 2019-09-28 at 9.38.57 AM(Photo: Mark Holleron, Canadian Medical Association)2020-05-17T22:59:26+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2014/02/10/digital-journal-us-rebuff-of-socialized-medicine-baffles-world-health-leaders/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/healthcare.pnghealthcare(Photo: United Workers/Flickr Creative Commons)2020-05-17T22:56:18+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2013/12/04/digital-journal-republican-congressman-calls-for-nuclear-war-against-iran/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/duncan-hunter.pngDuncan Hunter2020-05-17T22:56:12+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2013/03/08/digital-journal-un-cruel-and-inhuman-abuse-of-palestinian-children-by-israel/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/idf-palestinian-child.pngIDF Palestinian child2020-05-17T22:51:09+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2013/05/27/digital-journal-remembering-the-millions-of-innocents-killed-in-us-wars/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/my-lai.pngMy Lai2020-05-17T22:51:03+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2013/01/20/moral-low-ground-us-supports-dictators-in-4-of-worlds-7-least-free-nations/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/screen-shot-2019-05-24-at-3.15.48-pm.pngScreen Shot 2019-05-24 at 3.15.48 PM2020-05-17T22:30:30+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2013/01/27/digital-journal-israel-is-much-closer-to-nazi-germany-than-iran-is/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/screen-shot-2019-05-08-at-11.14.16-am.pngScreen Shot 2019-05-08 at 11.14.16 AMMemorial for the victims of Nazi extermination camps (Photo: Leslie Lanir) 2020-05-17T22:29:25+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2012/09/27/digital-journal-us-army-sprayed-zinc-cadmium-sulfide-on-poor-st-louis-residents/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/st-louis-1965.pngSt. Louis 19652020-05-17T22:27:21+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2012/09/06/moral-low-ground-obamas-top-50-broken-promises/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/obama.pngObama(Photo: Marc Nozell/Flickr Creative Commons)2020-05-17T22:26:46+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2012/07/23/digital-journal-israel-orders-demolition-of-8-palestinian-villages/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/bulldozer.pngbulldozer(Photo: Michael Loadenthal/Flickr Creative Commons)2020-05-17T19:32:45+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2012/07/21/digital-journal-emails-prove-arizonas-sb-1070-immigration-law-racially-motivated/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/sb-1070.pngSB 1070(Photo: RawEarthWorks Journal) 2020-05-17T19:29:48+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2012/07/20/digital-journal-congress-bottom-50-of-us-households-hold-just-1-of-wealth/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/homeless.pnghomeless(Photo: Ed Bourdon/Flickr Creative Commons)2020-05-17T19:21:42+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2012/07/13/digital-journal-hillary-clinton-confronts-legacy-of-us-atrocities-in-laos/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/hillary-clinton-laos.pngHillary Clinton Laos(State Department photo)2020-05-17T19:17:18+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2012/07/10/digital-journal-first-time-offender-sentenced-to-162-years-in-prison-for-robbery/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/quartavious-davis.jpgQuartavious Davis2020-05-17T19:15:12+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2012/07/09/digital-journal-nj-governor-chris-christie-calls-war-on-drugs-a-failure/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/chris-christie.pngChris Christie(Photo: Iowa Public Radio/Flickr Creative Commons)2020-05-17T19:14:13+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2012/06/29/digital-journal-at-least-31-victims-identified-in-latest-air-force-sex-scandal/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/lackland-afb.pngLackland AFB(Photo: USAF)2020-05-17T19:08:43+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2014/07/24/un-human-rights-council-votes-29-1-to-probe-israeli-war-crimes/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/gaza001.pngGaza001Of the nearly 800 Palestinians killed during Israel's Operation Protective Edge bombardment and invasion of Gaza, the UN says 70-80 percent have been civilians, including at least 175 children. (Photo: Muhammad Sabah/B'Tselem/Wikipedia) 2020-05-17T19:05:02+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/05/26/daily-kos-cornel-west-accuses-israeli-pm-netanyahu-of-war-crimes/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cornel.pngCornelCornel West and pro-Palestine activists carry mock coffins representing victims of Israel's 2014 Operation Protective Edge offensive in Gaza, which killed more than 2,100 Palestinians, most of them innocent civilians—including nearly 500 children. (Photo: Elvert Barnes/Flickr Creative Commons) 2020-05-17T06:52:36+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/05/18/daily-kos-koch-brothers-youth-education-program-teaches-sacrificing-lives-for-profit/2020-05-14T06:40:51+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/05/12/common-dreams-a-perfectly-legal-lynching-in-georgia/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/screen-shot-2020-05-13-at-9.16.37-am.pngScreen Shot 2020-05-13 at 9.16.37 AM2020-05-15T02:42:42+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2014/07/21/san-francisco-thousands-protest-israels-bloody-war-on-gaza/2020-05-09T18:10:26+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/05/07/covid-19-conspiracy-theorists-spreading-online-misinformation-despite-crackdown/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/stupid.pngstupidNice "social distancing"... (Photo: Paul Weaver/Flickr Creative Commons) https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/misinfo.pngmisinfoEnough with all the bullshit already, people! (Photo: Geoff Livingston/Flickr Creative Commons) 2020-05-11T15:01:57+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/04/26/daily-kos-gasland-director-josh-fox-bernie-sanders-climate-plan-is-only-realistic-one/2020-04-25T02:51:03+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/04/25/daily-kos-rep-barbara-lee-condemns-us-escalation-without-debate-in-syria/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/lee.pngLee(Democracy Now screen grab) 2020-04-25T02:38:45+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2018/04/12/counterpunch-deir-yassin-the-massacre-that-sparked-the-nakba/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/nakba.pngnakba2020-04-13T15:45:30+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/04/09/ethics-in-tech-surveillance-in-and-after-the-time-of-coronavirus/2020-04-09T17:52:21+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2010/12/13/moral-low-ground-on-this-day-2000-al-gore-concedes-stolen-election-to-george-w-bush/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/screen-shot-2019-05-16-at-10.54.59-am.pngScreen Shot 2019-05-16 at 10.54.59 AM2020-03-21T21:53:45+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2011/03/24/moral-low-ground-on-this-day-1980-oscar-romero-assassinated-by-us-backed-salvadoran-death-squad/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/romero.pngRomero2020-03-21T21:53:45+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2010/12/11/on-this-day-1981-salvadoran-death-squad-massacres-900-villagers-at-el-mozote/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/el-mozote.pngEl MozoteMemorial at El Mozote (Photo: Efrojas/Wikimedia Commons)2020-03-21T21:53:45+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2010/12/02/moral-low-ground-on-this-day-1980-american-nuns-raped-murdered-by-us-trained-salvadoran-death-squad/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/churchwomen.pngchurchwomenMurdered martyrs: (L to R- Maura Clarke, Ita Ford, Dorothy Kazel and Jean Donovan)2020-03-21T21:53:45+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2012/05/28/redefining-memorial-day-or-remembering-the-millions-of-innocent-civilians-killed-in-americas-imperial-wars/2020-03-21T21:53:44+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/03/01/ethics-in-tech-pentagon-ai-ethics-principles-met-with-skepticism/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/pentagon1.pngPentagon1(Photo: Master Sgt. Ken Hammond/USAF)2020-03-21T21:53:44+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2012/05/21/oh-the-irony-bloody-reagans-blood-up-for-auction/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/reagan.pngReagan(Photo: Michael Evans, National Archives/Ronald Reagan Library) 2020-03-21T21:53:44+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/04/11/daily-kos-ny-post-columnist-says-jews-shouldnt-vote-for-bernie-sanders-but-jews-for-peace-should/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/bernie2.pngBernie2New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser is advising Jews not to vote for Bernie Sanders. Jews, and anyone who stands for peace and justice, would do well to ignore her on this—and most everything else. (Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr Creative Commons) 2020-03-21T21:53:44+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2011/05/02/nato-air-strike-kills-gaddafis-son-grandchildren-orphanage-and-preschool-bombed/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/af.pngAF2020-03-21T21:53:44+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2011/04/13/on-this-day-1953-us-begins-mk-ultra-mind-control-experiments/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cia.pngCIA2020-03-21T21:53:44+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2013/01/01/moral-low-ground-150-years-after-emancipation-proclamation-mass-incarceration-is-the-new-slavery/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/emancipation.pngemancipation2020-03-19T21:46:18+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2011/08/30/waterboarding-is-torture/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/close-gitmo.pngclose GITMOWhite House protest against the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba (Photo: Justin Norman/Flickr Creative Commons) 2020-03-19T21:39:01+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2011/05/03/the-death-of-a-terrorist-no-not-that-one/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/539w.jpg539wOrlando Bosch, dickishly defiant as usual, after blowing up a Polish freighter in 1968. (Photo: UPI)2020-03-19T17:28:27+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2011/05/01/osama-bin-laden-killed-by-us-forces-in-pakistan/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/osama.pngOsama(Photo: Hamid Mir/Wikimedia Commons) 2020-03-19T15:59:09+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2011/05/02/the-sickeningly-star-spangled-spectacle-of-americans-cheering-death/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/celebrate.pngcelebrateA woman celebrates the death of Osama bin Laden in Times Square, New York on May 2, 2011. (Photo: Josh Pesavento/Wikimedia Commons) 2020-03-19T15:53:41+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2012/06/12/supreme-court-slams-door-on-justice-for-guantanamo-detainees/2020-03-19T15:35:31+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2012/05/12/obama-fundraiser-hala-hijazi-under-fire-for-speaking-truth-about-israel/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/hijazi.pngHijazi2020-03-19T04:57:16+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2011/10/26/moral-low-ground-us-marine-iraq-war-veteran-critically-injured-after-being-shot-in-head-with-police-projectile-at-occupy-oakland-protest/2020-03-19T01:19:29+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/01/06/blood-on-whose-hands/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/b52-afghanistan.pngB52 Afghanistan"Spreading freedom" over Afghanistan. (USAF photo) 2020-03-17T03:49:48+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/04/16/daily-kos-50-mega-rich-donors-give-41-of-all-super-pac-money/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/bernie-citizens-united.pngBernie Citizens UnitedSen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks in favor of a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision, September 8, 2014 (Photo: Senate Democrats/Wikimedia Commons) 2020-03-16T22:49:58+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/04/15/daily-kos-about-that-georgia-paddling-video/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/corporal-punishment.pngcorporal punishmentIn many states, not much has changed. (Image: Wikipedia) 2020-03-16T22:15:09+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/04/05/daily-kos-san-francisco-becomes-first-us-city-with-fully-paid-parental-leave/2020-02-15T03:34:17+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/01/21/common-dreams-bernie-sanders-10-years-fighting-citizens-united/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/bernie.pngBernie(Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr Creative Commons) 2020-01-29T03:11:12+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/01/10/common-dreams-ukraine-airliner-tragedy-evokes-memories-of-us-iran-air-shootdown-cubana-455/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/iranair655.pngIranAir655An Airbus A300 similar to Iran Air Flight 655, which was shot down by the USS Vincennes on July 3, 1988 in Iranian waters in the Strait of Hormuz. (Photo: Khashayar Talebzadeh)2020-01-17T00:15:36+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2019/10/11/common-dreams-mainstream-media-suddenly-care-about-syrian-civilian-casualties/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/civs.pngcivsSyrian civilians in their bombed-out home. (Photo: Peter Biro/European Union/CC) https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/kids.pngkidsSyrian children play amid the rubble of war. (Photo: 2020-01-10T19:22:07+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2020/01/09/antiwar-com-report-us-drone-strike-kills-afghan-civilians-taliban-commander/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/tolo.pngToloVictims of a US drone strike in Shindand, Afghanistan being treated in the regional hospital in Herat. (Photo: Tolo News) 2020-01-10T02:12:55+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2019/12/05/common-dreams-icc-holds-hearing-on-afghanistan-war-crimes-including-us-torture/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/torture.jpgtorture(Image: Witness Against Torture) 2020-01-06T06:28:49+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2019/11/08/counterpunch-30-years-ago-an-american-nun-was-kidnapped-and-tortured-in-guatemala-shes-still-waiting-for-justice/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ortiz.pngOrtizDianna Ortiz speaking at a 1996 press conference. (Photo: Associated Press screen grab) 2019-11-09T20:44:34+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2018/05/14/antiwar-com-to-understand-iran-try-history-not-hysteria/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/threat.pngthreatThis 2013 map illustrates the results of a WIN/Gallup International survey asking people which country they felt was the greatest threat to world peace. (Map by Joe Hammer) https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/deal.pngdealThe foreign ministers of France, Germany, the European Union, Iran, the United Kingdom and the United States as well as Chinese and Russian diplomats announcing the framework for a comprehensive agreement on the Iranian nuclear program in Lausanne, Switzerland; April 2, 2015. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/rummy.pngrummyIraqi President Saddam Hussein greets Donald Rumsfeld, then special envoy of President Ronald Reagan, in Baghdad on December 20, 1983. https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/shah.pngshahPresident Jimmy Carter and Shah Reza Pahlavi of Iran toast on New Year's Eve 1977. (Photo: Corbis)https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/mossadegh.pngMossadeghIranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh surrounded by supporters in Tehran after a September 27, 1951 speech discussing the nationalization of oil assets. https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/refinery.pngrefineryAnglo-Iranian Oil Company's refinery in Abadan, Iran; 1951 (Photo: The Hindu archives) https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/aioc-abadan-refinery.jpgAIOC-Abadan-refinery2019-11-09T20:12:38+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2019/11/01/common-dreams-for-9th-straight-year-us-grants-waivers-to-countries-violating-anti-child-soldier-law/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/childsoldiers.pngchildsoldiersChild soldiers in South Sudan, one of the nations granted "national interest" waivers from the Child Soldier Prevention Act (CSPA) by the Trump administration. (Photo: AFRIC)2019-11-04T16:11:41+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2019/10/31/antiwar-com-somali-villagers-say-us-drone-strike-kills-civilians-gathering-frankincense/2019-11-01T06:10:08+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2019/10/28/mondoweiss-duke-students-protest-speech-by-tzipi-livni-former-israeli-foreign-minister-accused-of-war-crimes/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/livni.pngLivni(Photo: Sandy Taperson/Flickr Creative Commons) 2019-10-31T16:14:22+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2019/10/14/counterpunch-no-friend-but-the-mountains-a-history-of-us-betrayal-of-the-kurds/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pesh.pngpeshA Kurdish PDKI peshmerga fighter (Photo: Kurdishstruggle/Flickr Creative Commons) 2019-10-17T16:39:04+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2019/10/11/ethics-in-tech-microsoft-betrays-its-ai-principles-by-investing-in-israeli-facial-recognition-company/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/checkpoint2.pngcheckpoint2Palestinians queue at an Israeli military checkpoint at the apartheid wall in Bethlehem, in the illegally-occupied West Bank (Photo: Andrew E. Larsen/Flickr Creative Commons)2019-10-12T18:52:08+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2014/02/24/rise-medical-marijuana-review-why-this-10-year-old-boy-needs-medical-marijuana/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/jackson.pngJackson(Photo: Heather Jackson)2019-09-28T16:28:17+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2019/09/26/ethics-in-tech-interview-with-rep-jerry-mcnerney/2019-09-26T18:29:49+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2019/09/24/common-dreams-rights-groups-urge-senate-to-reject-nomination-of-torture-advocate-marshall-billingslea-to-top-human-rights-post/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/billingslea.pngBillingslea2019-09-26T18:01:52+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2019/04/18/common-dreams-jimmy-carter-us-is-most-warlike-nation-in-history/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/jimmy-carter.pngJimmy Carter(Photo: Commonwealth Club/Flickr Creative Commons)2019-09-24T15:03:48+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/06/04/daily-kos-muhammad-ali-world-heavyweight-champion-of-peace-justice-and-humanity/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/screen-shot-2019-07-18-at-12.50.10-pm.pngScreen Shot 2019-07-18 at 12.50.10 PMMuhammad Ali and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak to reporters in Louisville, Kentucky in 1967. (Photo: Flickr Creative Commons) 2019-07-18T19:58:16+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/06/12/daily-kos-cant-wont-repeal-the-2nd-amendment-then-we-deserve-this/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/gun.pnggun(Photo: Håkan Dahlström/Flickr Creative Commons) 2019-07-18T19:36:09+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/07/08/daily-kos-there-is-no-war-on-cops-in-fact-its-never-been-safer-to-be-one/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/swat.pngSWATA special weapons and tactics (SWAT) team in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. (Photo: Tim McAteer) 2019-07-18T18:25:13+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2019/06/20/common-dreams-the-exceptionally-american-historical-amnesia-behind-pompeos-claim-of-40-years-of-unprovoked-iranian-aggression/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/iran-surrounded.pngIran surroundedIran is practically surrounded by US military bases and troops, mostly in hostile neighboring countries. 2020-05-09T16:29:32+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2019/06/04/common-dreams-rep-duncan-hunter-admits-his-marine-unit-killed-probably-hundreds-of-civilians-in-iraq/2019-07-20T14:07:43+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2019/05/24/antiwar-com-un-afghanistan-air-strikes-kill-14-civilians/2019-05-24T21:00:38+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2019/05/08/norcal-rideshare-drivers-and-supporters-demand-better-wages-and-working-conditions-at-ubers-sf-headquarters/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/uber5.pngUber5A protester demands better wages and working conditions outside Uber's San Francisco headquarters on Wednesday, May 8, 2019. (Photo: Brett Wilkins) https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/uber4.pngUber4Congressional candidate Shahid Buttar listens to Lyft driver Ann Glatt's concerns at Wednesday's rideshare protest outside Uber headquarters in central San Francisco. (Photo: Brett Wilkins) https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/uber3.pngUber3Ann Glatt of Sacramento said she hasn't gotten any IPO bonus, while some Uber executives and investors stand to make a hundred million dollars or more. (Photo: Brett Wilkins) https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/uber2.pngUber2San Francisco Uber driver Derrick Baker says he doesn't have a problem with rideshare companies making lots of money. "But we want to make some money too," he said. (Photo: Brett Wilkins) https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/uber1.pngUber1Lyft driver Erica Mighetto of Sacramento calls the company's business practices "disgusting." (Photo: Brett Wilkins) 2019-05-09T01:15:16+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2019/05/03/us-corporate-media-are-all-in-on-venezuela-regime-change/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/regime-change.pngregime change2019-05-05T17:37:32+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2019/04/15/on-us-cable-news-coverage-of-the-notre-dame-fire/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/nd.jpgNDhttps://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/notre-dame.pngNotre Dame2019-04-17T13:41:58+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2019/03/24/killing-for-credibility-a-look-back-at-the-1999-nato-air-war-on-serbia/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/serbia.pngserbiaBombs over Belgrade: NATO's 78-day war against Yugoslavia killed hundreds of innocent civilians. (Photo: b92)2019-03-28T17:35:44+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/07/14/daily-kos-whinsec-closure-included-in-democratic-platform/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/whinsec.pngWHINSECIn a WHINSEC tradition, visitors are met in front of the headquarters and are introduced to the leadership and staff. (US Army photo) https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/soaw.pngSOAW(Photo: School of the Americas Wa2019-03-04T05:17:37+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/07/22/daily-kos-wikileaks-internal-emails-prove-dnc-officials-worked-to-create-anti-sanders-narrative/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/sanders-clinton.pngSanders Clinton(Photo: Marc Nozell/Flickr Creative Commons) 2019-03-04T02:38:55+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/07/29/daily-kos-dozens-more-civilians-killed-in-latest-us-air-strike-on-syria/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/manbij.pngManbijA man carries the body of a child killed in a July 19, 2016 US-led air strike meant to target Islamic State fighters near Manbij, Syria. (Photo: Manbij Mother of all the World) 2019-03-03T23:56:59+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2019/02/25/common-dreams-diego-garcia-un-court-calls-on-britain-to-decolonize-chagos-islands/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/diego-garcia.pngDiego Garcia(Photo: NASA) 2019-02-28T20:40:15+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2019/02/21/ihchr-11800-civilians-killed-in-us-led-air-strikes-in-syria-iraq/2019-02-25T18:49:30+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2018/08/29/counterpunch-john-mccain-war-criminal-not-war-hero/2019-02-22T22:04:03+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/07/30/daily-kos-black-lives-matter-activists-join-palestine-protest-against-israeli-ethnic-cleansing/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/blm-palestine.pngBLM Palestine(Photo: Black Lives Matter/Facebook) 2019-02-22T17:11:11+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/08/12/daily-kos-hillary-clinton-cites-endorsement-by-john-negroponte-reagans-death-squad-ambassador/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/negroponte.pngNegroponte(Photo: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy/Flickr Creative Commons) 2019-02-22T16:57:48+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/08/16/daily-kos-rep-ted-lieu-blasts-us-support-for-saudi-war-crimes-in-yemen-enough-is-enough/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ted-lieu.pngTed Lieu(Photo: Rep. Ted Lieu)2019-02-22T16:50:02+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/08/18/daily-kos-obama-silent-after-american-western-aid-workers-attacked-by-us-backed-south-sudan-troops/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/south-sudan-troops.pngSouth Sudan troopsSouth Sudanese soldiers on the march. (Photo: United Nations/Flickr Creative Commons)2019-02-22T16:43:09+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2019/02/14/rep-ilhan-omar-grills-trump-venezuela-envoy-elliott-abrams-over-us-support-for-genocide/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/ilhan_omar.pngIlhan_OmarRep. Ilhan Omar questions Elliott Abrams, President Donald Trump's envoy to Venezuela, during a February 13, 2019 hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee in Washington, DC. (C-SPAN screen grab) 2019-02-14T21:45:12+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2019/02/14/why-must-ilhan-omar-apologize-for-telling-the-truth/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/ilhan-omar.pngIlhan OmarIlhan Omar is telling the truth about the outsize influence of the pro-Israel lobby in the United States. (Photo: Lorie Shaull/Flickr Creative Commons) 2019-02-14T21:35:23+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2019/02/01/counterpunch-elliott-abrams-a-human-rights-horror-show-in-three-acts/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/abrams.pngAbrams(Photo: Democracy Now screen grab) 2019-02-02T06:44:25+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/10/24/daily-kos-federal-court-reinstates-abu-ghraib-torture-case-against-military-contractor-caci/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/torture.pngtortureDetainees at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad, Iraq were subjected to horrific abuses and were sometimes tortured to death. (Photo: US Army) 2019-01-23T22:55:01+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/10/28/daily-kos-as-indigenous-youth-occupy-nyc-campaign-headquarters-clinton-breaks-dapl-silence-with-statement/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/screen-shot-2019-01-22-at-10.14.44-pm.pngscreen shot 2019-01-22 at 10.14.44 pmDaniel Grassrope of the Lower Brule Sioux Nation in South Dakota was among the young Native Americans who occupied Hillary Clinton's campaign headquarters in New York City on Thursday. (Photo: Democracy Now screen grab) 2019-01-23T06:16:31+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/11/02/daily-kos-buffalo-25-undocumented-immigrants-begin-week-long-protest-march-against-deportations/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/buffalo-25.pngbuffalo 25Buffalo 25 members, wearing ICE ankle bracelets, cross from New York into Pennsylvania on their "Journey to Dignity" protest march. (Photo: Facebook) 2019-01-23T06:09:02+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/11/03/daily-kos-us-led-air-strikes-kill-dozens-of-civilians-in-afghanistan-iraq/2019-01-23T06:02:08+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/11/09/daily-kos-about-last-night-from-the-first-black-president-to-a-president-endorsed-by-the-kkk/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/kkk.pngkkkKlansmen, neo-Nazis, white nationalists and racists of all stripes are rejoicing in the wake of Donald Trump's historic presidential victory. (Photo: Paul Weaver/Flickr Creative Commons) 2019-01-22T20:53:25+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/11/10/daily-kos-make-america-hate-again-bigot-attacks-sweep-nation-after-trump-victory/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/hate.pnghateChris Ball, a gay Canadian film producer visiting California, was brutally attacked by Trump supporters in Santa Monica on election night. (Photo: Facebook) 2019-01-22T20:45:55+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/11/11/daily-kos-us-led-air-strike-kills-20-syrian-civilians-near-raqqa/2019-01-22T20:40:18+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/11/21/daily-kos-guantanamo-judges-order-medical-staff-to-testify-in-cases-of-detainees-sodomized-during-cia-torture/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/gitmo.pnggitmo(Photo: US Army/Flickr Creative Commons)2019-01-21T19:51:34+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/11/23/daily-kos-while-you-enjoy-your-thanksgiving-dinner-native-americans-are-being-violently-repressed/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/wilansky.pngwilanskySophia Wilansky, 21, faces possible amputation of her arm after reportedly being hit with a police concussion grenade during a protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota. Hundreds of #NoDAPL water protectors have been injured, some of them seriously. (Photo: Facebook)2019-01-21T19:40:20+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/11/27/daily-kos-castro-a-brutal-dictator-here-are-7-of-the-worlds-worst-tyrants-all-backed-by-the-us/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/saudi-execution.pngsaudi executionIn close US ally Saudi Arabia, people are executed, usually by public beheading, for insulting or renouncing Islam, marital infidelity, being gay or even practicing "witchcraft." (Photo: Twitter/@sahaer_ksa)2019-01-21T19:10:11+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/06/08/daily-kos-trumps-heartlessly-hypocritical-response-to-iran-terror-attacks/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/screen-shot-2019-01-21-at-10.55.50-am.pngscreen shot 2019-01-21 at 10.55.50 amIranian forces are seen outside the Parliament building in Tehran, on June 7, 2017, during a terrorist attack on the complex. (Photo: Tasnim News Agency)2019-01-21T18:57:18+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2018/11/30/rising-up-with-sonali-us-strikes-in-afghanistan-kill-dozens-of-civilians/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/sonali1.pngSonali2018-11-30T20:54:35+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2018/11/28/common-dreams-us-air-strike-kills-at-least-30-afghan-civilians-including-16-children/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/afghan-strike.pngAfghan strike(Photo: Domenico/Flickr Creative Commons)2018-11-29T07:31:50+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2018/11/08/antiwar-com-latest-us-led-air-strikes-kill-at-least-80-syrian-civilians/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/children.pngchildrenSiblings Zaid, Ziyad and Aisha I’mad Mahmoud Al-Haj Al-Hussein were killed in a November 3 US-led air strike on their family home in Hajin, Deir Ezzor, Syria. (Photo: Syrian Network for Human Rights) 2018-11-28T00:31:55+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2018/10/24/antiwar-com-monitor-death-toll-rises-to-63-in-us-led-strike-on-syria-mosque-homes/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/al-sousa-mosque-bombed.pngal-Sousa mosque bombed(Photo: Twitter) 2018-10-24T18:21:24+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2018/10/12/pope-declares-slain-salvadoran-archbishop-oscar-romero-a-saint/2018-10-14T16:14:26+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2018/09/13/common-dreams-why-john-bolton-really-hates-the-international-criminal-court/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/bolton.pngBolton(Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr Creative Commons)2018-09-18T23:40:01+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2018/08/23/common-dreams-why-trump-cant-save-coal-from-the-ash-heap-of-history/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/coal.pngcoal(Photo: Stuart Rankin/Flickr Creative Commons)2019-02-13T09:41:08+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/12/13/daily-kos-the-trump-petropoly-environmentalists-appalled-by-imminent-regime-of-climate-deniers-and-doubters/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/screen-shot-2018-08-23-at-12-15-41-pm.pngScreen Shot 2018-08-23 at 12.15.41 PM2018-08-23T19:16:17+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2016/12/16/daily-kos-trump-acknowledges-his-vicious-violent-supporters/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/dt-xmas.pngDT Xmas(WESH screen grab)2018-08-23T18:56:16+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/01/02/daily-kos-us-military-says-bombing-of-mosul-hospital-may-have-killed-civilians/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/usaf.pngUSAF(Photo: USAF/Flickr Creative Commons)2018-08-23T18:04:50+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/01/05/daily-kos-the-surreal-spectacle-of-republicans-embracing-julian-assange-and-wikileaks/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/assange-hannity.pngAssange Hannity2018-08-23T17:56:53+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/01/08/daily-kos-new-senate-indian-affairs-chair-supports-dakota-access-pipeline-targeted-nodapl/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/hoeven.pngHoeven(Photo: US Embassy Moldova/Flickr Creative Commons)2018-08-23T17:49:55+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/01/11/daily-kos-cory-booker-delivers-unprecedented-testimony-against-ag-nominee-jeff-sessions/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/booker.pngBooker(Photo: Wikimedia Commons) 2018-08-23T17:43:30+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/01/13/daily-kos-james-mad-dog-mattis-war-criminal/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/mattis.pngMattis(Photo: Flickr Creative Commons) 2018-08-23T17:33:19+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/01/30/daily-kos-trumps-refugee-ban-is-ugly-deadly-history-repeating-itself/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/holocaust.pngHolocaust2018-08-23T06:20:04+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/01/31/daily-kos-nawar-al-awlaki-8-year-old-american-killed-in-us-yemen-raid/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/nora.pngNora2018-08-17T17:19:43+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/03/01/daily-kos-republican-anti-science-bills-target-school-children-in-4-more-states/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/creation.pngcreationAt the Creation Museum in Kentucky, humans and dinosaurs live side-by-side in "alternative fact" harmony. (Photo: Daniel Incandela/Flickr Creative Commons) 2018-08-17T17:01:32+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/03/10/daily-kos-bomb-the-shit-out-of-them-civilian-deaths-soar-under-trump/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/babies.pngbabies2018-08-17T16:22:48+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/03/13/daily-kos-insurance-for-everyone-trumps-biggest-deadliest-lie/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/trump-liar.pngTrump liar“Everybody’s going to be taken care of much better than they’re taken care of now, and the government's going to pay for it." - Donald Trump, September 2015 (Photo: DonkeyHotey/Flickr Creative Commons) 2018-08-07T20:23:47+00:00monthlyhttps://brettwilkins.com/2017/03/23/daily-kos-san-francisco-becomes-first-us-city-to-reject-religion-based-registries/https://brettwilkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/hala.pnghala(Photo: Hala 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