Stratfor's free e-mail updates are great at telling you stuff you don't know, and their analyses are always well thought-out, too. I don't care who they are, and must admit to having become something of an addict. We grown-ups have our filters in place by now, eh?
And their stuff on Eastern Europe indicates a resurgence of nationalistic leftism likely to transform quite a few parliaments there (including those of some NATO members). Perhaps NATO wants a quasi-cold war environment for its own institutional reasons, I dunno. If not, US foreign policy is yet again shitting its nest (and those of all the rest of us - perched as they are on the branches below). And 'Europe's' shot at continental hegemony seems to have hit the wall, too.
Cheers, Rob.
>They had several decent overview articles written about them in the wake
>of the Kosovo War (which seems to have done for them what the Gulf War did
>for CNN), and they've posted several at their website at
>www.stratfor.com/media. The two best, I thought, were:
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>TIME Magazine:
>http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,18728,00.html
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>The Industry Standard (an internet business magazine)
>http://www.thestandard.com/articles/display/0,1449,4876,00.html?mail
>
>The first article says that the operation runs on a "lean staff of 20
>based in Austin" several of whom "have military intelligence backgrounds."
>In other words they are ex-spooks and academics, just like everyone thinks
>has to be the case based on what they write. And the second tells us that
>George Friedman's wife Meridith runs the public relations department, thus
>following in the tradition of fine independent journalistic endeavors
>everywhere :o)