Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon Content Scraper Open Source

Amazon Scraper Short honk: Want to scrape Amazon content? Amazon has renamed a previous tool and released it as open source. Navigate to Microsoft’s GitHub and download Amz2csv. The tool performs as advertised. One question which we are pondering is, “Why is Amazon releasing this tool as open source?”

Stephen E. Arnold: Forbes Tests Amazon’s Police State Capability Rekognition

Forbes Does a Semi Rah Rah for Amazon Rekognition …based on conversations with those in my lectures, two categories of comments and questions capture the reaction to the US government documents I reviewed. First, Europeans do not think about Amazon as anything other than a vendor of products and a service which allows relatively low …

Gareth Porter: The Deep State Zionist Media Plot to Derail Donald Trump & Unification / Denuclearization of the Koreas

How Corporate Media Are Undermining a US-North Korea Nuclear Weapons Deal These examples of flagrant misrepresentation of facts and irrelevant and nonsensical arguments reflect a fundamental problem with the corporate media as well as the political elites of the United States: They are so wedded to the interests of the national security state and to …

Otto Scharmer: Post-Truth, Post-Democracy, Post-Human – How You Can Reconnect and Transform

How to Access Your Curiosity, Compassion, and Courage We all face the abyss of three great divides: ecological, social, spiritual. Post-Truth: Trapped in fake news digital echo chambers. You can’t know, nobody knows. Post-Democracy: Families, communities, societies breaking apart. You can’t connect, nobody can. Post Human: Lost connection and agency. You can’t transform, nobody can. …

Steven Aftergood: JCS on Strategy — Directing All the Instruments of National Power

STRATEGY: DIRECTING THE INSTRUMENTS OF NATIONAL POWER The tools that can be used to assert national power and influence have often been summarized by the acronym DIME — Diplomatic, Informational, Military, and Economic. But “US policy makers and strategists have long understood that there are many more instruments involved in national security policy development and …