massive and profitable military industrial complex how to talk more about this i'm joined now by jason burma's he is the director of invisible empire a new world order defined. so big companies turning to stratfor for intelligence information so obviously there is quite a demand for their services is intelligence yet another piece of the military industrial complex. well absolutely it's part of this ensure goal check not believe that we now have not only in this country but across the world it shows you that corporations can now buy intelligence networks that are heavily heavily involved with our own u.s. intelligence networks in fact even the mainstream media is dubbing them the the shadow cia this is a firm that was created in one thousand nine hundred six by george friedman this man was a political analyst political scientist he'd spoken to darpa the u.s. army war college on many occasions and essentially started this firm that is not only for hire but has facility to cilla tainted money laundering paying informants overseas already we're seeing some of these e-mails leak where stratfor is