What's the difference between "news" and "intelligence"?

News is a commodity that you can get anywhere on the Internet. Intelligence today is what's going to be news tomorrow. To learn about the value of Intelligence, click here for a short video from Stratfor's founder and CEO, Dr. George Friedman.

Stratfor provides three types of intelligence products:

• Situational Awareness - Situational Awareness is knowing what matters, and an intelligence professional's responsibility - Stratfor's responsibility - is to keep you apprised of what matters without wasting your time with clutter. We provide near real-time developments from street revolutionary movements and military invasions. OJ's latest arrest and mudslinging in Washington and Brussels don't make the cut.
• Analyses - Stratfor tells its Members what events in the world actually mean. We also tell you when events are much ado about nothing. Oftentimes the seemingly momentous is geopolitically irrelevant and vice versa. We discern what's important objectively - without ideology, a partisan agenda, or a policy prescription.
• Forecasts - Knowing what happened yesterday is helpful; knowing what's going to happen tomorrow is critical. Stratfor's intelligence team makes definitive calls about what's next. These aren't opinions about what should happen; they're analytically rigorous predictions of what will happen.