Tim Libretti

LATEST ARTICLES BY Tim Libretti

• Opinion

  

  Does everyone deserve to have their basic needs met?

  October 10, 2019 By Tim Libretti

  A lot of energy has gone into railing against the tax policy proposals forwarded by Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.

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• Politics

  

  Rich and want to escape Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax? CNBC says get divorced.

  October 2, 2019 By Tim Libretti

  Instead of putting energy and thought into figuring out how to avoid improving American lives, Warren’s critics seem more intent on figuring out how to defraud the people.

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• Opinion

  

  Is socialism really about “free stuff”?

  August 29, 2019 By Tim Libretti

  Republicans say we can't afford education or health care, but somehow there's always money for what corporations need.

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• Culture

  

  Documentary ‘Cooked: Survival by Zip Code’ re-defines racism, poverty as disasters

  July 24, 2019 By Tim Libretti

  If we devoted as much political will and resources to addressing poverty and racism as we do to preparing for “natural” disasters, they'd inflict much less devastation on human lives.

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• Opinion

  

  Can an economy that promotes sexual violence be ‘amazing’?

  July 16, 2019 By Tim Libretti

  How we value the work people do in economic terms bears direct correlation to how we value people in social and political terms.

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• Opinion

  

  Is socialism a more emotionally intelligent economy than capitalism?

  June 13, 2019 By Tim Libretti

  Have you ever noticed that we often talk about and even measure the effectiveness of our economy in emotional terms?

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• Opinion

  

  Right wing assaults First Amendment, latest target in class struggle

  June 11, 2019 By Tim Libretti

  For the GOP across the nation these days, the prevailing attitude is more to the effect of, “If you don’t like what’s being said, repress the conversation.”

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• Opinion

  

  Wealth and class are not determinants of intellect or governing ability

  May 31, 2019 By Tim Libretti

  Ocasio-Cortez here addresses a much larger tendency in U.S. culture which we talk about much less than we do racism or sexism – the practice of devaluing people on the basis of their occupation.

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