Tim Wheeler

Tim Wheeler has written over 10,000 news reports, exposés, op-eds, and commentaries in his half-century as a journalist for the Worker, Daily World, and People’s World. Tim also served as editor of the People’s Weekly World newspaper. His book News for the 99% is a selection of his writings over the last 50 years representing a history of the nation and the world from a working-class point of view. After residing in Baltimore for many years, Tim now lives in Sequim, Wash.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Tim Wheeler

U.S.

The war in Newark, 1967
February 27, 2013 By Tim Wheeler
I sat for two hours copying word for word the reports of the gunshot wounds that ultimately killed 26 people in Newark. Most of them died from gunshot wounds in the back.
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U.S.

Obama launches jobs drive with State of Union speech
February 13, 2013 By Tim Wheeler
President Obama laid out a second-term agenda to create jobs, increase the minimum wage, promote science and education, stop gun violence, and defend voting rights.
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Lincoln: principles and politics
February 8, 2013 By Tim Wheeler
In this 150th anniversary year of the Emancipation Proclamation, we are fortunate to have Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals to help us understand Abraham Lincoln.
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U.S.

NY Times: Turning truth on its head — The Scottsboro case
February 7, 2013 By Tim Wheeler
This week a bipartisan group of Alabama state lawmakers introduced a bill to exonerate the victims of a racist frame-up.
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Labor

Walmart workers strike on Black Friday
November 26, 2012 By Tim Wheeler
The walkout was one of dozens against the retail giant across the nation protesting Walmart's bully tactics aimed at silencing the "OUR Walmart" worker upsurge.
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U.S.

Quality care group wins “open government” award
October 29, 2012 By Tim Wheeler
The CCQCC recently won an "open government" award in recognition of the group's fight to open the books on the operation of the OMC.
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U.S.

Lawmaker probes Florida Republican voter fraud
October 3, 2012 By Tim Wheeler
Rep. Elijah Cummings is spearheading the investigation of Republican Party voter registration fraud, even as the GOP continues to gush slogans of "voter integrity."
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U.S.

Obama: Election is clearest choice in generation
September 7, 2012 By Tim Wheeler
Barack Obama accepted the Democratic Party nomination for a second term Sept 6 calling the Nov. 6 election the starkest choice for working people in half a century.
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