Politics

What Is Jill Stein Up To?

Jill Stein’s candidacy is unaffected by a vote recount. How was she able to raise more money overnight for vote recounts in 3 states won by Trump than she was able to raise for her presidential campaign?

Stephen Lendman http://sjlendman.blogspot.com and investmentwatchblog.com http://investmentwatchblog.com/jill-stein-has-just-raised-more-money-in-24-hours-for-her-wi-mi-and-pa-recount-initiative-than-she-did-for-her-entire-2016-presidential-campaign/ raise questions.

Michelle Cottle explains why anti-Trump America has to come to terms with the fact that Trump won not because he bamboozled anybody, but because American democracy produced him fair and square. Excerpts:

There is a quarrel in the GOP over who should receive the Secretary of State nomination:

Rival factions of Republicans are locked in an increasingly caustic and public battle to influence President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for secretary of state, leaving a prominent hole in an otherwise quickly formed national security team that is unlikely to be filled until next week at the earliest.

Turkey has carried out a series of airstrikes on the Syrian city of al-Bab. According to the Turkish military, the airstrikes were conducted against alleged ISIS targets in the city of al-Bab, located some 40 kilometers northeast of Aleppo, shortly before 8 a.m. local time (0500 GMT) on Friday. The Turkish military also stated that three of its soldiers were killed and 10 more wounded in an air strike allegedly launched by Syrian government forces the day before.

When reporting yesterday on the abrupt deterioration in European-Turkish relations, in which the European Parliament voted Thursday in an overhwleming majority to impose a temporary, non-binding freeze on talks for Turkey's accession into the EU, we said that it "remains unclear if Turkey will proceed with releasing the nearly three million Syrian refugees allegedly contained within its borders as a result of the European Parliament vote." Today we have an answer: as the FT reports, Turkish president Erdogan warned Brussels on Friday he would allow 3 million refugees to cross over to Europe