Tim Wheeler
LATEST ARTICLES BY Tim Wheeler
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U.S.
Obama draws praise for halting tar sands pipeline
January 20, 2012Republican claims that they are trying to create jobs is ludicrous. The Republicans have done everything in their power to kill the jobs bills in Congress.
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U.S.
Union local president describes how Romney killed a steel plant
January 19, 2012Under Romney's leadership, the mill slashed 1,750 jobs, padlocked a division that had existed for 100 years and eventually sank into bankruptcy.
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U.S.
Montana high court upholds ban on corporate cash in elections
January 10, 2012Progressives in the "Big Sky State" are praising the Montana Supreme Court for rejecting the U.S. Supreme Court's "corporate personhood" decision.
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Opinion
Lorenzo Torrez, copper miner, Communist leader, dies at 84
January 9, 2012Lorenzo Torrez, leader of the Communist Party, a staunch yet quiet spoken fighter for union rights and Mexican American equality, died New Years Day in Tucson.
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Opinion
2011: People Said NO to union busting, greed and war
December 15, 20112011 will be remembered as the year workers occupied capitals to defend union rights and the jobs of millions of public workers.
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Opinion
No cheering for fiscal treaty in the streets of Europe
December 12, 2011Cutbacks and layoffs have touched off huge street protests, general strikes, and the collapse of governments.
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U.S.
GOP dirty trickster guilty of “fraud” in racist robocall
December 7, 2011Former Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich's campaign manager, Paul Schurick, was convicted of "fraud" Dec. 6 for his role in a racist robocall seeking to suppress the Black vote.
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U.S.
Occupiers message to Congress: All we want for Christmas is good jobs
December 7, 2011Protesters from Ohio sat down in the corridor outside House Speaker John Boehner's office, "bearding the corporate Grinch in his den."
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