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

Arts

Selma: The real winner of every Oscar in sight
February 25, 2015 By Tim Wheeler
The crowd at the Academy Award ceremony stood and cheered. Somebody said that Selma stole the show. How true.
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U.S.

Maryland protesters demand action to end police violence
January 16, 2015 By Tim Wheeler
Baltimore protesters chanting "Black lives matter" gathered Jan. 15 to demand that the legislature enact laws to end the plague of police killings in Maryland.
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U.S.

Marches against police killings sweep the nation
December 15, 2014 By Tim Wheeler
Led by mothers, fathers, and widows of African American men killed by white police officers, 50,000 protesters marched up Pennsylvania Avenue.
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U.S.

“I can’t breathe” march on Washington to protest police killings
December 9, 2014 By Tim Wheeler
The storm will hit this week when eight mothers of unarmed Black men killed by police will testify Dec. 10 in a House hearing sponsored by Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich.
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Opinion

Remembering Volodya and the Soviet war dead
December 3, 2014 By Tim Wheeler
"I am looking at my treasured coin and wondering about Volodya."
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U.S.

President praised for bringing millions out of the shadows
November 21, 2014 By Tim Wheeler
"Immigrants take jobs most Americans won't accept and under conditions most other Americans won't tolerate; big parts of our economy can't survive without them."
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U.S.

Texas unionists ringing doorbells to oust Republican right
October 31, 2014 By Tim Wheeler
These union workers are determined to prevent a takeover of Texas by "the most radical, right wing Republican ticket ever.
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U.S.

Obama barnstorms in Wisconsin against the GOP
October 30, 2014 By Tim Wheeler
Without mentioning Wisconsin's GOP Gov. Scott Walker by name, President Obama blasted Walker for opposing an increase in Wisconsin's $7.25 minimum wage.
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