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.

Rally at Treasury: Goldman Sachs owes us $13 billion
June 10, 2010 By Tim Wheeler
"Young Turks" talk show host Cenk Uygur led protesters at the Treasury Department chanting: "Hey-hey, ho-ho, $13 billion's a lot of dough!" and "Goldman Sachs, we want it back!"
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U.S.

Action on jobs key to victory in November
June 9, 2010 By Tim Wheeler
"We don't have the luxury of all this whining and agonizing. We've got to turn the agonizing into organizing."
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U.S.

Administration urged to work with Cuba on oil disaster, protecting Gulf
May 12, 2010 By Tim Wheeler
"The Deepwater Horizon disaster underscores the need to be talking to Cuba about protecting our shared environment," the director of a U.S.-Cuba policy group says.
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U.S.

MoveOn urges fight to “Take back America” from corporations
May 11, 2010 By Tim Wheeler
SEQUIM, Wash. — More than 250 Olympic Peninsula residents crowded a MoveOn.org forum here the evening of May 4 to denounce corporate greed and its stranglehold on government.
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U.S.

At Blue-Green Alliance meet, the cry is, “Good Jobs, Clean Air!”
May 10, 2010 By Tim Wheeler
WASHINGTON - Truck-driver Porfirio Diaz brought the 3,500 delegates at the Good Jobs, Green Jobs national conference here to their feet May 5 with his harrowing story of the struggle he and his fellow drivers are...
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U.S.

Cheney blasted for blocking oil well safety valve
May 4, 2010 By Tim Wheeler
Women who have spent their lives fighting oil company pollution and profiteering denounced Dick Cheney and the company he once headed for their role in the oil spill spreading across the Gulf of Mexico.
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U.S.

Gulf disaster spurs questions on drilling, Halliburton
May 3, 2010 By Tim Wheeler
With an estimated 25,000 barrels of crude oil gushing each day from BP's Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico, an environmental group called for an immediate halt to offshore drilling.
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Labor

Hero of labor, Will Parry, celebrates 90th birthday
April 27, 2010 By Tim Wheeler
SEATTLE - At his 90th birthday party, April 24, Will Parry picked up his guitar and led 400 union brothers and sisters, family, comrades, and friends in singing "Carry It On," ending, "No more tears, for...
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