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U.S. voters are showing they no longer recognize themselves in the traditional parties.

Source: Leftists for Trump? This Year, Anything’s Possible – Bloomberg View

Venezuelans voted for a new legislature on Sunday in an election that may punish the ruling Socialists for a brutal economic crisis and give the opposition a long-sought platform to challenge President Nicolas Maduro.

Source: Venezuela Socialists at risk in high-stakes legislative vote | Reuters

http://blackagendareport.com/node/4958

“Vanguard of the Revolution” is Liberal History, Strips and Omits Socialism from History of the Black Panther Party
by Bruce A. Dixon

NYT Rounds Up ‘Left-Leaning Economists’ for a Unicorn Hunt (FAIR.ORG)

With Hillary Clinton ramping up her attacks on Bernie Sanders as a budget-buster—in the February 11 debate, she claimed  his proposals would increase the size of government by 40 percent—the New York Times(2/15/16) offered a well-timed intervention in support of her efforts: “Left-Leaning Economists Question Cost of Bernie Sanders’ Plans.”

While the “left-leaning” is no doubt meant to suggest critiques from those who would be inclined to sympathize with Sanders, all the quoted economists have ties to the Democratic establishment. So slight is their leftward lean that it would require very sensitive equipment to measure.

Source: NYT Rounds Up ‘Left-Leaning Economists’ for a Unicorn Hunt — FAIR

Michelle Alexander for Supreme Court Justice!

Posted: 2016/02/19 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/Video

http://www.salon.com/2016/02/17/michelle_alexander_supreme_court_justice_thousands_petition_obama_to_nominate_new_jim_crow_author/

Our local branch of the movement to end the new Jim Crow is Speak Up Florida (SpeakUpFL.org).