[pnathan]

Actually, Stratfor tends to have a unique perspective on the news. I've been signed up for their free email thread for a while, and while I've never been blown away, they do have a better-than-most longform approach to news. It definitely beats CNN.

[jshq111]

I've had the "privilege" of getting access to the paid product via work some years ago. I found that they did accurately predict 100 of the next 2 crises (ie if you say every day disaster is imminent some days really bad things randomly occur). But beyond the quality of their content, Stratfor intimates they have some proprietary pipeline to govt classified intelligence when they have no more access than any other person with Google and a subscription to the NY times. Wikileaks embarasses itself and does Stratfor a great service by perpetrating the marketing hoax that Stratfor is anything but a bunch of guys in Texas rehashing public news sources for gullible corporate consumers.

[refurb]

I'd have to agree. Stratfor has some incredible analysis in their articles. Stuff the mainstream media overlooks in an effort to make news easily digestible.

[tsotha]

>It definitely beats CNN.

Damned by faint praise...