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.

Feeling kinship with Japan’s tsunami victims
March 15, 2011 By Tim Wheeler
Posted prominently beside the road leading out of town at the mouth of the Dungeness River is a sign, "Tsunami Evacuation Route." In the past we paid little attention to it. But we are now.
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U.S.

Spokane NAACP leader hails arrest of bomb suspect
March 10, 2011 By Tim Wheeler
The FBI later announced that it was a highly sophisticated bomb, rigged to be remotely detonated, and designed to inflict maximum casualties.
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Opinion

Timely reading: “Engels, A Revolutionary Life”
March 4, 2011 By Tim Wheeler
The book has romance, adventure and a touch of intrigue.
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U.S.

Pickets in 31 states slam Social Security cuts
March 3, 2011 By Tim Wheeler
Across the country, people are picketing proposed GOP cuts to Social Security - though the program has never added a cent to the federal budget.
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Labor

Cheesehead solidarity: 3,000 jam Wash. state capital
February 28, 2011 By Tim Wheeler
Roaring solidarity with Wisconsin workers, many in the crowd wore Green Bay Packer "cheesehead" foam hats, symbolizing how the "Cheddar Revolution" has spread nationwide from America's Dairyland.
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U.S.

Black History Month: George B. Murphy, Jr., journalist for the people
February 17, 2011 By Tim Wheeler
I got to know George B. Murphy, Jr. during the 25 years I commuted from Baltimore to Washington D.C. covering the capital for the Daily World newspaper, now the People's World online daily. His long career...
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Opinion

The real Ronald Reagan on his 100th birthday
February 10, 2011 By Tim Wheeler
In 1984 Ronald Reagan proclaimed it was "Morning in America." But many of us knew that in reality he was ramrodding wage-cut policies that busted unions, undermined New Deal programs, and deregulated the banks and corporations.
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U.S.

Why so little reporting on Spokane bomb threat?
February 7, 2011 By Tim Wheeler
There is a well-documented history of the corporate media playing down domestic terrorism threats “that don’t involve Arab or Muslim” alleged conspirators.
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