PBC News & Comment: Fidel Dies, Stein Launches Recounts, Trump Tweets More Lies

Miami reactionaries celebrate Castro’s death, Jill Stein starts 3-state recount, leading to contradictory Trump tweets about “millions” of fraudulent votes….
--Castro dies at age 90, producing accolades and denunciations
--Trump threatens new sanctions on Cuba, renegotiation of Obama deal
--Fidel’s funeral will be boycotted by many major leaders
--Jill Stein revealed her recall plans first to Greg Palast
--Clinton team barely supports the recount plans, but is now raising money around them
--on Friday, White House said it stands by the election results
--Trump first slams recount as Green Party scam, then claims that he won the popular vote “if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally”
--recount process is underway in Wisconsin, Stein will file in PA and MI
--Washington Post promotes smears of left-leaning media as “routine peddlers of Russian propaganda” by anonymous “experts” exposed by Greenwald
--Washington Post rewrites the facts on torture, as Marc Thiessen declares that torture consultant Jim Mitchell is “an American patriot”
--NY Times has a more balanced report on Mitchell’s trial and new book
--Army Corps of Engineers announces shutdown of Standing Rock protest area, but the “water protectors” are unmoved
--Turkish despot Erdogan threatens to send more refugees to Europe after being denied EU membership
--Syrian forces and Kurdish fighters make important gains near Aleppo
--Obama sets another bad precedent for Trump, using Bush-era law to justify military action against al Shabab
--NY Times does deep investigation of Trump’s international business conflicts, and editorializes about his “Caldron of Conflicts”
--accused Charleston shooter Dylan Roof will represent himself in death penalty case, after being found competent for trial