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

News

Watergate: First in a series of very American coups
July 1, 2005 By Tim Wheeler
WASHINGTON — Suddenly, the Watergate conspiracy is back in the headlines with the revelation that former FBI officer W. Mark Felt is the mysterious “Deep Throat” who fed Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward tips on the...
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Building socialism in the U.S. one brick at a time
June 3, 2005 By Tim Wheeler
The collapse of the Soviet Union was an enormous ideological windfall for U.S. imperialism. President George H. W. Bush delivered a triumphant State of the Union message Jan. 28, 1992: “[C]ommunism is dead…By the grace of...
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Don’t take voting rights for granted
March 18, 2005 By Tim Wheeler
SELMA, Ala. — The Rev. C.T. Vivian of Atlanta stood in the midst of the surging crowd at the conclusion of the Bridge Crossing Jubilee here March 6. Well-wishers congratulated him on the big turnout for...
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Invisible giants honored in Selma
March 11, 2005 By Tim Wheeler
SELMA, Ala. — They were “invisible giants,” women and men who served as foot-soldiers of the struggle for voting rights.
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RENEW VOTING RIGHTS!
March 11, 2005 By Joyce Wheeler And Tim Wheeler
40 years after Bloody Sunday, 10,000 march in Selma SELMA, Ala. — Singing “Ain’t going to let nobody turn me round,” 10,000 marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge here March 6 to protest Bush-Cheney voter suppression...
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U.S.

Honor voting rights martyrs with deeds
March 4, 2005 By Tim Wheeler
Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner. The names of the three civil rights martyrs still ring like a bell four decades after they disappeared in Neshoba County, Mississippi, June 21, 1964. Their deaths, together with the violence inflicted...
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40 years after Selma’s Bloody Sunday
January 14, 2005 By Tim Wheeler
The struggle for voting rights continues Reps. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio), John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) defended the legacy of martyrs who died for voting rights when they blocked, for a few hours,...
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Pete Seeger: Standing Tall at 85
December 17, 2004 By Tim Wheeler
'Seeger understood early the power of song as a force for social change.' Pete Seeger turned 85 last May 3 and could be forgiven if he hung up his five-string banjo and relaxed with his wife...
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