RANE Podcast
588 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★ - 123 ratingsRANE is a risk intelligence company that provides access to critical insights, analysis, and support to ensure business continuity and resiliency for our members. The RANE podcast is dedicated to succinct, clear conversations with thought leaders about managing business risk, best practices, geopolitical risk, and the underlying, global trends that drive the international system. The brings global events into valuable perspective, empowering businesses, governments, and individuals to confidently navigate an increasingly complex international environment.
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Pen and Sword: Yellow Bird with Sierra Crane Murdoch
June 05, 2020 07:21 - 22 minutes - 10.4 MBIn this episode of the Pen and Sword podcast from Stratfor, a RANE company, Emily Donahue speaks with author and journalist Sierra Crane Murdoch about her book Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country. It's a wide ranging conversation about a Native American woman's search for justice. It is the story of Lissa Yellow Bird, who took on her tribe, the courts and her family to uncover the truth about a missing person. Listen free to all of Stratfor's Pen and...
Essential Geopolitics: Protests, Looting and Radical Extremism
June 04, 2020 09:09 - 8 minutes - 3.77 MBIn this episode of the Essential Geopolitics podcast from Stratfor, a RANE company, Emily Donahue speak with global security analyst, Ben West about the impact of COVID-19 and the economic crisis on social protests about racial injustice. Protests were not prompted solely by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Factors intensifying the unrest in 2020 include years of building frustration over police violence against African Americans, extremely graphic video of the initial incident and ...
Essential Geopolitics: The Lasting Implications of Israel's Invasion and Withdrawal from Lebanon
June 02, 2020 09:03 - 13 minutes - 6.05 MBIn this Essential Geopolitics podcast from Stratfor, a RANE company, Global Security Analyst, Thomas Abi-Hanna, discusses what's has happened in the 20 years since Israel withdrew from Southern Lebanon. Points include: Why was Israel in Lebanon in the first place? What factors caused Israel to withdraw after 18 years? The geopolitical implications of the invasion and withdrawal for Israel, Lebanon and elsewhere? If you’d like to read Thomas’ analysis of security risks in the Middle East, s...
Essential Geopolitics: Why Hong Kong and China Will Continue to Battle
May 28, 2020 08:59 - 7 minutes - 3.54 MBProtests have started again in Hong Kong, after China made a big move. In this Essential Geopolitics podcast from Stratfor, A RANE Company, Asia Pacific Analyst Evan Rees speaks with Emily Donahue about why protests in Hong Kong have reignited and why the will not burn out any time soon. A hint: It's all about Taiwan. Subscribers to Stratfor Worldview can read decades of analysis of the Hong Kong / China relationship and get exclusive access to our annual and quarterly forecasts. Click here ...
Essential Geopolitics: No Oil Rebound
May 26, 2020 17:00 - 8 minutes - 3.97 MBIn this Essential Geopolitics podcast from Stratfor, a RANE company, Emily Donahue speaks with Greg Priddy. Priddy, who directs coverage of global energy and the Middle East, says the road ahead for oil producers looks long and hard. From Saudi Arabia to Russia and the U.S., the oil markets are looking at a sustained downturn, not unlike that of the mid-1980's. Subscribers to Stratfor Worldview can read all of our coverage of the Middle East. Podcast listeners get a discounted rate.
Pen and Sword: The Cubans with Anthony DePalma
May 26, 2020 05:00 - 34 minutes - 15.8 MBIn this Pen and Sword podcast from Stratfor, a RANE company, Emily Donahue interviews Anthony DePalma, Author of "The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times. With rare access, DePalma discovers and shares stories from people whose lives have been defined by a U.S. embargo and a failed revolution. For 60 years, Cuba's presence on the world stage has been limited to the role of a pawn in the Cold War fight for supremacy between communism and capitalism. DePalma writes, "I wanted reade...
Essential Geopolitics: Reopening the Global Economy
May 21, 2020 09:58 - 6 minutes - 3.12 MBIn this episode of Stratfor's Essential Geopolitics podcast, host Emily Donahue speaks with Ben West about his work surveying how the global return to work is going. West says that If the shut down process in March and April seemed chaotic and disorganized, the reopening process will be even more jumbled. That's because not only is there no global plan in place but inside individual countries - including the United States - processes are split between national, state, local and even individ...
Pen and Sword: Can the US-China Relationship Get Worse?
May 20, 2020 20:42 - 28 minutes - 12.9 MBIn this episode of the Pen and Sword podcast from Stratfor, a RANE company, Rodger Baker speaks with the inaugural president and CEO of the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations David Firestein. A decorated career U.S. diplomat from 1992–2010, Mr. Firestein specialized primarily in China and U.S.-China relations. Topics covered range from the COVID19 to latest trade tariffs to the U.S. presidential election and the future world order. Subscribers to Stratfor Worldview can rea...
Essential Geopolitics: The GCC Battles Covid-19
May 19, 2020 09:40 - 9 minutes - 4.4 MBIn this episode of Essential Geopolitics from Stratfor, a RANE company, Emily Hawthorne discusses how the six Middle Eastern countries: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman are approaching the battle against COVID-19. As with the rest of the world, Hawthorne advises, the virus will impact economies, industries and societies. The real question is how to prevent any unrest arising from the impacts. Subscribers to Stratfor Worldview can read the latest on the...
RANE insights: How the Workplace Will Change Post COVID-19
May 15, 2020 19:11 - 24 minutes - 11.3 MBIn this episode of the RANE Insight podcast series, host Emily Donahue speaks to Bill Edwards Associate Principle of Protective Design & Security Services Thornton Tomasetti. As the third quarter approaches, a large portion of the workforce may be back. But what would that actually mean?. Edwards says there must be changes to the workplace to ensure workers, clients and visitors will be safe as COVID-19 restrictions begin lifting. Collaboration and creative thinking are necessary to address ...
Essential Geopolitics: The Resumption of Work on the Nord Stream 2
May 14, 2020 09:00 - 8 minutes - 4 MBIn this Essential Geopolitics podcast from Stratfor, a RANE company, the conversation is about impending resumption of work on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany. You may recall it was interrupted last year when US sanctions forced the company providing pipe laying vessels to bow out of the project. RANE analyst, Sim Tack says it looks like the U.S. won't be able to stop it. Subscribe to Stratfor Worldview for full coverage of Nord Stream 2.
Essential Geopolitics: Why US-China Trade Tensions Still Matter
May 12, 2020 09:14 - 7 minutes - 3.39 MBIn this episode f the Stratfor Essential Geopolitics podcast, host Fred Burton speaks to senior global analyst, Matthew Bey. Amid the COVID-19 crisis, a shellshocked global economy and tangled supply chains, it might seem U.S. - China Trade tensions would be on the decrease. Not so. New U.S. export controls against China aimed at limit Beijing's overall access to U.S. technology will come at the cost of further fragmenting the global tech sector’s highly integrated supply chain network. You...
Essential Geopolitics: The EU and UK Trade Deal
May 07, 2020 09:00 - 6 minutes - 3.15 MBIn this episode of the Stratfor Essential Geopolitics Podcast, Fred Burton speaks with RANE's Adriano Bosoni, who is Senior European Analyst. Bosoni says that the COVID-19 pandemic has severely delayed free trade agreement negotiations between the European Union and the United Kingdom. This, combined with logistical and political obstacles, has made it unlikely that the two sides will reach a comprehensive trade deal before Britain's scheduled departure from the EU single market by year's en...
RANE Insights: Practicing Safe Cyber Hygiene While Working Remote
May 05, 2020 18:01 - 53 minutes - 24.3 MBMany companies have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by reducing or banning corporate travel and by asking some or all of their employees to work from home. While having employees work from home will help reduce transmission of the virus in the workplace, it also brings with it some additional risks. As the disruptions from responses to COVID-19 mount, it is important to consider the second- and third-order impacts of the extreme efforts being put in place to curb the spread. In this podc...
RANE Insights: Can China's COVID-19 Data Be Trusted?
May 05, 2020 17:45 - 48 minutes - 22.3 MBWhat Data from China can be trusted and what does it really tell us? In 2007, then-Secretary General of Liaoning Province, Li Keqiang (kuh-chung), told the United States Ambassador that China's gross domestic product (GDP) numbers were "man-made" and that they were for "reference only." Now, as China's second-in-command after General Secretary Xi Jinping, and as Xi's handpicked coordinator of China's COVID-19 response, Li is in charge of informing the world of China's coronavirus infection ...
Essential Geopolitics: A Survey of Asia Pacific Responses to Covid-19
May 05, 2020 09:06 - 9 minutes - 4.48 MBIn this episode of the Stratfor Essential Geopolitics podcast, the conversation turns to the Asia Pacific. Countries in the region - from China to Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and more - have had differing reactions to the coronavirus. That has led to vastly different infection rates and deaths. Podcast listeners can subscribe to Stratfor Worldview with a special rate using the code podcastoffer.
Essential Geopolitics: The Legacy of Aldrich Ames
April 30, 2020 09:16 - 10 minutes - 4.78 MBIn this Essential Geopolitics podcast from Stratfor, Host Fred Burton speaks to Thomas Abi-Hanna, a global security analyst for Stratfor. As anyone in the U.S. who was alive in the 1990's might tell you, the case of convicted spy Aldrich Ames shook Washington and all of its intelligence agencies. Ames worked as a double agent for the USSR and Russia for more than a decade and his treachery led to the deaths of intelligence assets. Subscribers to Stratfor Worldview can read about Ames and the ...
Pen and Sword: Mosul, the Film with Dan Gabriel
April 29, 2020 17:30 - 18 minutes - 8.6 MBIn this episode of Stratfor's Pen and Sword podcast with Fred Burton, a conversation with Dan Gabriel. Dan Gabriel was just out of college when the terror attacks of September, 2001 spurred him to action. He didn't join the military, though. He joined the CIA where he worked in counter-terrorism. And he traveled to Mosul and Afghanistan during both Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, conflicts in many U.S. minds forever known as the ongoing war in Afghanistan and Iraq. H...
Essential Geopolitics: Israel's Unity Government Challenges
April 28, 2020 09:00 - 7 minutes - 3.46 MBIn this episode of Stratfor's Essential Geopolitics podcast, host Fred Burton speaks to RANE analyst Ryan Bohl about Israel's new unity government. As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps Israel, the state’s squabbling political factions have settled into a new government but still must work together to work to address ongoing issues such as Gaza, annexation and its relationship with its Arab neighbors. Subscribers to Stratfor Worldview get access to Stratfor's deep library of content on Israel and ...
Essential Geopolitics: The Upside Down Oil Markets
April 23, 2020 08:15 - 11 minutes - 5.31 MBIn this episode of Stratfor's Essential Geopolitics podcast, Fred Burton speaks with Greg Priddy. Priddy directs Stratfor's Global Energy and Middle East Analysis. Today they go deep on why West Texas Intermediate, Intermediate, the main US crude oil benchmark, fell to negative prices Monday afternoon and why the OPEC+ agreement didn't prevent this. You can stay ahead of the economic and geopolitical impacts of the current oil crisis with a subscription to Stratfor Worldview. Podcast listen...
Pen and Sword: Covid-19 Cyber Security
April 22, 2020 19:49 - 22 minutes - 10.2 MBIn this episode of Stratfor's Pen and Sword podcast, host Fred Burton speaks with Alexander White, the V.P. of Cyber at Prescient, a global risk management and intelligence firm. Like Stratfor and RANE, Prescient is monitoring an increase in criminal cyber attacks against companies and home offices. Common sense, White says, is always a good first step in keeping bad actors away from your network's back - or front - door. But smart threat management and awareness is always necessary.
Pen and Sword: Small Wins in Times of Crisis
April 21, 2020 08:12 - 21 minutes - 10.1 MBIn this episode of Stratfor's Pen and Sword podcast with host Fred Burton, a conversation with Daron K. Roberts. Roberts is the author of Call An Audible. It is the story of Roberts' last minute pivot away from a career in law and a lifelong ambition to become the Governor of Texas by the age of 40 into an NFL coach. These days, Roberts coaches students in a class about Sports Leadership at The University of Texas at Austin, and serves as a "transition coach" to many. In this interview, Rober...
Pen and Sword: Data.World
April 17, 2020 16:06 - 23 minutes - 10.9 MBIn this episode of Stratfor's Pen and Sword podcast, host Fred Burton speaks to serial entrepreneur, Brett Hurt. Hurt's latest startup is data.world, a Public Benefit Corporation focused on data and analysis that also includes the world's largest collaborative public data catalog. Data.world is using its platform to help fight the COVID-19 virus, collecting and sharing data from sources like Johns Hopkins, Harvard Global Health Institute, WHO, and individuals. In this conversation, the topic...
Essential Geopolitics: Global Slowdown and U.S. Unemployment
April 16, 2020 16:19 - 8 minutes - 4.11 MBIn this special episode of Stratfor's Essential Geopolitics podcast, host Fred Burton speaks to Michael Monderer. The IMF predicts the global economy will be in decline by about 2-3% this year - IF the coronavirus that has locked things down is contained in the first half. "If the virus were to continue throughout the summer or come back next year, unemployment would hit 1/3 of the global workforce," says Monderer, "It's not out of the question that the US unemployment rate could go to over...
Essential Geopolitics: Ramadan During COVID-19
April 16, 2020 10:14 - 5 minutes - 2.36 MBIn this episode of Stratfor's Essential Geopolitics podcast, a look at Ramadan during unprecedented times. host Fred Burton speaks to Global Security Analyst Ben West about how during the COVID-19 outbreak, nations and religious pilgrims may encounter unusual security constraints.
Pen and Sword: The RANE Story
April 14, 2020 21:12 - 23 minutes - 32.3 MBIn this episode of Stratfor's Pen and Sword podcast with Fred Burton, a conversation with David Lawrence. Lawrence is the Founder and Chief Collaborative Officer at RANE (Risk Assistance Network + Exchange). RANE brings together institutions and individuals to create a single risk management community. Lawrence tells the story of how RANE launched, how RANE connects those in need of solutions with experts who can help through a technology platform that delivers efficient access to informatio...
Essential Geopolitics: Protect Yourself from Bad Cyber-Actors
April 14, 2020 10:05 - 7 minutes - 3.33 MBIn this episode of Stratfor's Essential Geopolitics podcast, Fred Burton speaks to threat expert, Thomas Abi-Hanna. Abi-Hanna is a Stratfor analyst focusing on security. He says, in this COVID-19 reality of working from home, bad actors are not waiting to pounce. He shares tips on best practices and a warning: "You can invest in the best cyber security technology in the world. But if the person behind the keyboard isn't aware of the threat, it essentially becomes useless."
Essential Geopolitics: The Changing U.S. Footprint in Iraq
April 09, 2020 10:06 - 6 minutes - 2.95 MBIn this episode of Stratfor's Essential Geopolitics podcast, Fred Burton speaks with Middle East and North Africa analyst, Emily Hawthorne. In a recent analysis for Stratfor Worldview, Hawthorne wrote that "By tightening the screws on Iran’s regional proxies and energy sector, the United States risks damaging its remaining ties with the Iraqi government." This as both countries remain committed to an anti-terrorist coalition and other ties. A meeting scheduled for June, 2020 will reveal a lo...
Essential Geopolitics: Russia After Putin
April 07, 2020 08:02 - 6 minutes - 3.12 MBIn this episode of Stratfor's Essential Geopolitics podcast, the conversation turns to Russia's efforts to limit the role of its presidency. With a constitutional amendment that would allow Vladimir Putin to run for another two terms, the Kremlin is also trying to delay that inevitable transition as much as possible.Host Fred Burton and global analyst Sim Tack discuss the charismatic president who has overseen his country's resurgence on the world stage and whether Russia will be ready to mo...
Pen and Sword: Hostages and Freelance Journalists
April 04, 2020 12:08 - 25 minutes - 11.7 MBIn this episode of the Stratfor Pen and Sword podcast, Fred Burton speaks with Margaux Ewing, the director of the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation. The Foundation was named for American independent journalist James Foley, who was kidnapped and murdered in Syria by ISIS. HIs mother, Diane, launched the Foundation to advocate for the freedom of all Americans held hostage abroad and promote the safety of journalists worldwide.
Pen and Sword: Disunited Nations with Peter Zeihan
April 03, 2020 10:58 - 13 minutes - 6.07 MBIn this episode of Stratfor's Pen and Sword podcast, host Fred Burton catches up with geopolitical analyst, Peter Zeihan. Zeihan used to work as an analyst with Stratfor. In his new book, Disunited Nations, Zeihan is predicting the end of the global order - driven by demographics and geopolitics, nations will become more insular. The coronavirus pandemic, he predicts, will hasten the global order's end. What once may have taken a decade, could now happen within 2020.
Essential Geopolitics: The U.S. Response to COVID-19
April 02, 2020 09:14 - 5 minutes - 2.59 MBIn this episode of Stratfor's Essential Geopolitics podcast, host Fred Burton speaks to middle East and North Africa Analyst, Ryan Bohl. Compared to other nations, has the United Stated responded appropriately to the coronavirus pandemic? What is the right balance between the federal and state governments and is too much intervention even possible? SUBSCRIBE TO STRATFOR WORLDVIEW Podcast listeners get a special offer.
Pen and Sword: Savage Son with Jack Carr
April 01, 2020 20:26 - 19 minutes - 9.1 MBIn this episode of Stratfor's Pen and Sword podcast, host Fred Burton speaks to his pal, the author Jack Carr. Carr's latest book, Savage Son, releases this month. It is the third of the James Reece trilogy. Carr reveals that this tale leans toward the darker side of human nature - and follows the paths of both the hunter and the hunted. Carr says this might be his darkest tale yet, but is still full of human redemption. His research for this book took him to the former Soviet Union, where he...
Essential Geopolitics: Europe After Pandemic
March 31, 2020 16:00 - 6 minutes - 2.82 MBIn this episode of Stratfor's Essential Geopolitics podcast, Fred Burton speaks to Senior European Analyst, Adriano Bosoni about about the social, political and economic implications of the COVID-19 outbreak in Europe. As the coronavirus continues to shutter businesses, slow production and furlow or fire workers, Stratfor asks: How can the EU survive intact?
Essential Geopolitics: Coronavirus in Africa
March 26, 2020 14:09 - 5 minutes - 2.64 MBIn this episode of Stratfor's Essential Geopolitics podcast, Fred Burton catches up with global analyst, Sim Tack. He's focusing on how coronavirus is creating challenges for several nations in Africa and what happens after the pandemic passes.
Pen and Sword: No Shadows in the Desert with Sam Katz
March 25, 2020 20:32 - 19 minutes - 9.04 MBIn this episode of Stratfor's Pen and Sword podcast, Fred Burton speaks with Samuel Katz. Katz' new book comes out in April. It is entitled, "No Shadows in the Desert, Murder, Vengeance, and Espionage in the War Against ISIS." The author tells Burton that the book details the coalition among nations in the Middle East and with the United States, to take down ISIS. The book reveals the secret inner workings of Jordan’s GID, the masters of human intelligence on the espionage battlefields of t...
Essential Geopolitics Saudi Arabia & Coronavirus
March 23, 2020 20:09 - 7 minutes - 3.26 MBIn this episode of Stratfor's Essential Geopolitics podcast, host Fred Burton speaks with Middle East and North Africa analyst, Emily Hawthorne. They discuss Saudi Arabia and the impact not only of the coronavirus but the challenges resented by falling oil price and demand.
Essential Geopolitics: Israel Balances Security and COVID-19
March 16, 2020 20:09 - 3 minutes - 1.43 MBIn this episode of Stratfor's Essential Geopolitics Podcast, host Fred Burton discusses with Stratfor Global Security Analyst, Thomas Abi-Hanna where COVID-19 fits into Israel's security planning.
Pen and Sword: Business Continuity in Coronavirus Times
March 16, 2020 19:36 - 11 minutes - 5.29 MBIn this episode of Stratfor's Pen and Sword Podcast, Scott Stewart and Fred Burton discuss COVID-19 and working from home. We recommend that employees be educated about the wide array of phishing schemes seeking to capitalize on COVID-19. Employees should also be advised about business email compromise, sometimes referred to as "CEO scams" or "president scams," a growing risk as more business is conducted remotely and over email.
Essential Geopolitics: The Russia Saudi Oil Staredown
March 12, 2020 17:46 - 7 minutes - 3.46 MBIn this episode of Stratfor's Essential Geopolitics podcast, host Fred Burton speaks with Greg Priddy. Priddy directs Stratfor's Global Energy and Middle East coverage. They discuss the stand-off between Russia and Saudi Arabia over oil production and pricing as global demand falls from the coronavirus pandemic.
Pen And Sword: Tracy Walder The Unexpected Spy
March 11, 2020 18:11 - 18 minutes - 8.37 MBIn this episode of Stratfor's Pen And Sword podcast, host Fred Burton speaks to tracy Walder, the author of THE UNEXPECTED SPY From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists. Walder was recruited into the CIA from college. She served on several high profile counterterrorism efforts against Al Qaeda during the Iraq War. Later, she joined the FBI. Walder tells Stratfor's Fred Burton that the work at teh FBI wasn't the hard part. Battling sexis...
Essential Geopolitics: What's Your Plan For Coronavirus Disruptions?
March 09, 2020 19:35 - 6 minutes - 3.19 MBIn this episode of Stratfor's Essential Geopolitics Podcast, Stratfor analysts Ryan Bohl and Ben West discuss Covid-19 as both a global and local phenomenon. It is important to track global trends to see where (and how) the disease is being contained vs. where it is spreading and/or accelerating. But individuals are more likely to be affected by responses from local trends - and should be monitoring localized breakouts and considering how they might impact locally.
Essential Geopolitics: Turkey Russia Summit
March 04, 2020 17:42 - 8 minutes - 3.75 MBIn this episode of Stratfor's Essential Geopolitics podcast, analysts Ryan Bohl and Sim Tack discuss Idlib, Syria. The Syrian government's offensive against rebel forces in Idlib province carries significant risks for Turkey and Russia.
Essential Geopolitics: Iran Coronavirus Update
March 02, 2020 21:56 - 7 minutes - 3.45 MBIn this episode of the Stratfor Essential Geopolitics Podcast, Chief Security Officer Fred Burton discusses with Stratfor's Middle East and North Africa Analyst, Emily Hawthorne, the latest news on the situation in Iran. The Covid-19 virus is burdening an economy already struggling under U.S. sanctions and near neighbors - indeed, the world - are watching how Iran manages this health crisis, especially as it plans for an influx of religious tourism.
What's Inside the latest IAEA report on Iran?
February 28, 2020 15:21 - 6 minutes - 3.06 MBIn this episode of the Stratfor podcast, host Fred Burton speaks to Greg Priddy, who directs Stratfor's analysis of energy and the Middle East. An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on Iran's nuclear program is likely to show progress on breakout time for making a single nuclear weapon. But is that the only thing the world is watching for?
Essential Geopolitics: Italy, the EU and the Coronavirus
February 26, 2020 19:07 - 9 minutes - 4.15 MBIn this episode of the Stratfor Essential Geopolitics podcast, Stratfor's Ryan Bohl is in the host seat. He discusses with Stratfor Senior Europe Analyst, Adriano Bosoni, whether the coronavirus will affect Italy's economy and the larger economic and trade situation in the EU.
Essential Geopolitics: Terrorism in the Sahel
February 24, 2020 23:06 - 6 minutes - 2.76 MBIn this episode of the Stratfor Essential Geopolitics podcast, host Fred Burton speaks to Global Security Analyst, Thomas Abi-Hanna about militancy in the Sahel region of Africa. According to Stratfor Worldview, the area is plagued by increasingly frequent, widespread and deadly militant attacks in recent years.
Pen and Sword: The Spy Who Couldn't Spell
February 21, 2020 00:21 - 19 minutes - 9.03 MBIn this episode of the Stratfor Pen and Sword Podcast, Stratfor Chief Security Officer and host, Fred Burton, speaks with Yudhijit Bhattacharje, author of The Spy Who Couldn’t Spell: A DYSLEXIC TRAITOR, AN UNBREAKABLE CODE, AND THE FBI’S HUNT FOR AMERICA’S STOLEN SECRETS. Bhattacharje discovered the details on a reporting trip to the FBI Lab, where he met a cryptanalyst who shared the details of the unusual spy case. The "thrilling, true-life account of the FBI’s hunt for the ingenious trai...
Essential Geopolitics: How Close are the U.S. and Taliban to Peace?
February 19, 2020 23:45 - 8 minutes - 3.73 MBIn this episode of Stratfor's Essential geopolitics podcast, Stratfor Chief Security officer, Fred Burton speaks with Thomas Abi-Hanna, a global security analyst at Stratfor. The discussion centers on the known and unknown variables that could derail the latest effort toward a peace deal. Those include regional players, a fractured Taliban and a fractured Afghanistan government.
Stealth War with Robert Spalding
February 13, 2020 19:33 - 19 minutes - 8.85 MBIn this episode of the Stratfor Pen and Sword podcast, host and Chief Security Officer for Stratfor, Fred Burton, speaks to Brigadier General Robert Spalding, USAF, Retired. Spalding has written "Stealth War: How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept," about how China has been working under the radar to "destroy the rights and systems crucial to American livelihood for decades." Spalding's writing details ways in which China undermines democracy from within and encourages the U.S. to...