The Israeli writer and dissident Uri Avnery asked an Egyptian general how the Egyptians managed to surprise the Israelis when they launched the October 1973 war. The general answered: "Instead of reading the intelligence reports, you should have read our poets."

The State University of New York -the largest university in the United States, with nearly 600,000 students located in 64 publicly-funded higher education institutions-has served an important educational function for the people of New York and of the United States. But its recent "partnerships" with private businesses have been far less productive.

MSNBC executives plan to cancel Lawrence O'Donnell highly-rated prime time television show "The Last Word" after his contract... President Donald Trump announces U.S. Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster as his national security adviser at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, on February 20, 2017.

Actor and activist George Takei on Sunday pushed back against "trolls" on the Internet who are upset because the new show Star Trek Discovery will have a diverse cast. The racist opposition to the new CBS spinoff boiled over last week after the show's first official trailer featured Asian actress Michelle Yeoh as the ship's captain and black actress Sonequa Martin-Green as the first officer.

Europe "must take its fate into its own hands" faced with a western alliance divided by Brexit and Donald Trump's presidency, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday. "The times in which we could completely depend on others are on the way out.

This segment on MSNBC this morning is notable for two reasons. First, we get to revisit Bernie Sanders' magnificent drubbing of OMB Director Mick Mulvaney during last week's hearings.

MSNBC executives plan to cancel Lawrence O'Donnell highly-rated prime time television show "The Last Word" after his contract... What happened in Manchester, England, last Monday is inconceivable and horrific. It's impossible to imagine what it would be like to send your child to a concert and have some madman blow himself up, killing innocent children for no reason.

Josh Gerstein, Politico: President Donald Trump was already struggling to fill hundreds of top legal jobs throughout the federal government. Over the past two weeks, that task became exponentially more difficult, according to top GOP lawyers.

Trump's embarrassing speech to NATO has now forced Gen. Mattis' into sounding more like a CNN Trump surrogate than the Secretary of Defense.

He's huge. Outsized. He fills the news hole at any moment of any day. His over-tanned face glows unceasingly in living rooms across America.

Former acting CIA director on Kushner's "bizarre" conduct: "It's a proposed secret channel through the government that is probably the most active government in the world in carrying out espionage against the United States" While former national security and intelligence officials expressed alarm over reports that President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner proposed using Russian diplomatic facilities to set up a secret communications channel with the Kremlin during the presidential transition period, conservative media figures attempted to downplay the major news story by drawing inaccurate comparisons to back-channel situations from previous administrations. Wash .

Thomas E. Ricks, Politico: [National Security Adviser H.R.] McMaster probably thinks that by staying at his post, rather than resigning in disgust, he is doing his duty. Specifically, he may think that if stepped down, he might well be succeeded by an alt-right ally of White House adviser Steve Bannon.

Katon Dawson, former SC GOP chair, wasn't all that prepared for the strong pushback he got from Joy Reid when he parroted the Republican party line on Obamacare: "At the end of the day, I've been very consistent. The party that owns the health care bill is usually the party that loses, except for the guy at the top, which was Barack Obama," Dawson said.

Rep. Adam Schiff , ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, suggested on Sunday that President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, may lose his security clearance if he lied about collaborating with Russia to establish back channel communications before the president took office. During an interview with ABC's Martha Raddatz, Schiff pushed back on the idea that Russians planted the story about Kushners attempt to establish a secret line of communications with the Kremlin.

But the Rich theories wouldn't have gone beyond WhatDoesItMean.com and Reddit without the help of prominent backers. In August, Julian Assange insinuated that Mr. Rich could have been the source of the D.N.C. emails put out by WikiLeaks and offered a $20,000 reward for information on Mr. Rich's death, despite the fact that a hacking persona going by Guccifer 2.0 claimed responsibility.

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaking at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland. Jennifer Berkshire reports that Secretary Betsy DeVos has turned to a top official from the scandal-plagued for-profit higher education industry to "right-size" the Department of Education.

The movement for Healthcare Justice is currently coming to a peak in California with the recent introduction and now advancement to the State Senate floor for a vote due next week on SB 562 The Healthy California Act. The principle authors and citizen sponsors are being asked to provide updated proof of what those of us fighting for a Single Payer system of financing Healthcare have known for a very long time, that Single Payer based on progressive taxation to replace private health insurance premiums saves money and saves lives.

As President Donald Trump's wrecking machine continues its steady work of destroying everything that is dear to Americans, two poets, Roque Dalton , a Salvadoran poet and Langston Hughes , a poet of the dispossessed, seem to have presaged Trump presidency's characteristics and effects. There doesn't seem to be any escape from evil, any way in which common citizens can defend their hard-earned rights and liberties from Trump and his minions' "carnage" .

NIQASH's Mosul correspondent left the city shortly after the extremist Islamic State group took over. But most of his family remained.

A heart-shaped wreath covered with positive messages hangs on a traffic light pole at a memorial for two bystanders who were stabbed to death Friday. Two men were stabbed to death and one injured Friday on a light-rail train in Portland, Oregon, after they tried to intervene when another passenger began "ranting and raving" and shouting anti-Muslim hate speech at two young women, police said.