Oh yeah, it's pretty amazing down there. I did an internship there in college when the Kosovo war was going on. I was blown away at Friedman's mind, and at the amount/quality of information that was rolling into that office regarding what was going on in Serbia/Kosovo. I think that's the event that put them on the map.
Were you there when they first implemented the paywall?
I have a really low opinion of StratFor, mostly due to the huge amount of agitprop directed towards deceiving the “general public” in the Anglophonic world. Untold thousands of hours of freepers lives have been spent reading annd dicussing stratfor media that turned out to be the obfuscation PR releases for stratfor’s clients.