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In this episode of RANE’s Essential Geopolitics podcast powered by Stratfor, Emily Donahue speaks to Michael Monderer, Stratfor senior analyst for global economics at RANE. This year, China began testing a digital currency. So far the experiments have seemed to be positive, which could put China in line to be the first country with a central bank-issued digital currency. Monderer explains what tha...

In this episode of the RANE Insights podcast, RANE Founder David Lawrence speaks to Barry Meier, a former New York Times reporter and author of 3 books. His work has helped raise awareness of the roots of the opioid epidemic at the hands of Purdue Pharma as well as cherry-picked information of drug trial findings and tell the story of Robert Levinson, an American held hostage in Iran accused of sp...

In this episode of the Stratfor Baker's Dozen podcast from RANE, host Rodger Baker speaks to  Michael Cunningham, a geopolitical analyst and “China watcher” who has assisted multinational companies manage and maneuver changes in China’s political, regulatory and security environment. The refocus on great power competition has brought about a surge of new analysis on China, focusing on the Belt and...

In this episode of RANE's Essential Geopolitics podcast powered by Stratfor, Emily Donahue speaks with Garrick Bell. Bell is Stratfor Security analyst at RANE. Over one June weekend in 2021, mass shootings in the United States left 6 people dead and nearly 40 others injured. That’s the kind of statistic that would have stopped Americans cold just 2 decades ago. These days, a headline like that bar...

In this episode of the Stratfor Essentail Geopolitics podcast from RANE, Emily Donahue speaks with Sam Lichtenstein, who is Stratfor director of global security analysts at RANE. A joint sting operation managed by Australia and the U.S. netted hundreds of arrests of organized crime figures. Australia called it a watershed moment. Interpol described it as the "biggest ever law enforcement operation...

In this week's episode of the RANE Insights on COVID-19 podcast, RANE founder David Lawrence speaks with Dr. Fred Southwick, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Florida College of Medicine, and Dr. Bill Lang, an expert in public health responses to biological incidents, including pandemics about the concerning nature of new variants and why they may overtake the "wild" strain tha...

In this episode of RANE's Essential Geopolitics podcast, powered by Stratfor, Emily Donahue speaks to Adriano Bosoni, Stratfor's Senior Europe Analyst at RANE. Slovenia will hold the rotating presidency of the European Union during the second half of 2021. The country has said that one of its priorities will be adding candidate countries in the Western Balkans to the EU. But this is a massive chal...

In this episode on the RANE Insights on COVID 19 podcast, RANE founder David Lawrence speaks with Dr. Fred Southwick, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Florida College of Medicine, about his study on efficient vaccine distribution and new variants that are testing the effectiveness of the current vaccines.  Individuals and organizations turn to RANE, for risk intelligence that...

In this episode of RANE's Essential Geopolitics podcast, powered by Stratfor, Emily Donahue speaks to Ben West. West is Stratfor Senior Global Security Analyst at RANE. A May 30 report from the Danish Broadcasting Corporation outlined new details on how the U.S. and Danish intelligence services have cooperated to collect communications intelligence. While the media has focused on allegations of sp...

In this episode of the Stratfor Essential Geopolitics podcast from RANE, Emily Donahue speaks with Chase Blazek, Stratfor Asia Pacific Analyst at RANE. The relationship between China and Taiwan, and by extent both with the world, is in a period of rapid change. Although China's official policy is still one of peaceful reunification with Taiwan, the island's political evolution and shifting interna...

In this episode of the Stratfor Essential Geopolitics podcast from RANE, Emily Donahue speaks with Matthew Bey, Stratfor Senior Global Analyst at RANE. the topic: Iran's elections are scheduled for June 18 and the government has announced a list of 7 candidates eligible to run for President.

Memorial Day is a holiday in the United States. It was set to honor the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. And yet, many service members who are veterans continue to die following their service. By suicide. In one sobering year, the VA reported more suicides by veterans than combat deaths. In this podcast, a conversation about why, despite the overwhelming number of resourc...

In this Stratfor Essential Geopolitics podcast, Emily Donahue is joined by Rebecca Keller, Stratfor Director of Geopolitical Analysis at RANE. They discuss the new IEA Roadmap to Net Zero by 2050 report and what it will take to reach emissions goals set out in the Paris Accord within 30 years.

In this week’s RANE Insights on COVID-19 podcast, we discuss summer camp safety tips for children, vaccine boosters, and the protocol of wearing - or not wearing - a mask in public since the new CDC guidelines were introduced. Let’s listen as RANE founder David Lawrence speaks with Drs. Fred Southwick and Bill Lang for our weekly coronavirus update. -- Dr. Bill Lang is an expert in public health r...

In this episode of the RANE Insights on Security podcast with Brian Lynch, the conversation turns to what businesses and teams must do to prepare for workers' return to the office. Among the items on the to-do list: check in on employees, relax some rules and make sure that everyone's mentally ready to return. Lynch, who is RANE's Executive Director of Safety and Security, speaks with Chris Silva,...

In this episode of the Stratfor Essential Geopolitics podcast from RANE, Emily Donahue speaks with Sam Lichtenstein, Stratfor Director of Global Security Analysts at RANE. A year of protests against Belarus president Lukashenko's rule has almost ended in Belarus. Why? The government has forcefully shut down almost all dissent. Sam Lichtenstein discusses what happens next. 

The US is still in the grip of a massive crisis that is stealing lives, costing billions in treatment, and crippling state systems designed to support those with addiction issues. In this RANE Insights podcast, RANE founder David Lawrence speaks to Arden O'Connor, who leads the O’Connor Professional Group which addresses the needs of families and individuals struggling with an array of behavioral...

In this episode of the Stratfor Essential Geopolitics podcast from RANE, Emily Donahue speaks with Carmen Colosi. Colosi is Stratfor Latin America Analyst with RANE. Thousands of people have been protesting in Colombia. They took to the streets in late April, and since then, more than 40 people have been killed - and several hundred more have been injured --- in clashes with police and riot squads...

In this week’s RANE Insights on COVID 19 podcast, our experts discuss the federal mask mandate that left elation - confusion, and concern in its wake, debunking vaccine myths and how vaccines may affect summer camp. RANE founder David Lawrence speaks with Drs. Fred Southwick and Bill Lang for our weekly coronavirus update. Dr. Bill Lang is an expert in public health responses to biological inciden...

In this episode of the Stratfor Essential Geopolitics podcast from RANE, we break down the implications of the cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline. Within days, the ransomware cyber attack was having a major impact on fuel supplies to the East Coast. But it disrupted more than fuel supplies. Emily Donahue gets insight from Stratfor Senior Global Analyst at RANE, Matthew Bey, into the significance...

Geopolitics is a term that is often misunderstood and misused. In the media, anything seen as disruptive between two countries is called geopolitical tension. In academia, there are ongoing debates over whether geopolitics is a tool of power and oppression or an explanatory tool to understand state behavior. Geopolitics as an idea is seeing a rapid resurgence, particularly as U.S.-China “Great Pow...

In late April, the Italian government announced a plan to spend more than 220 billion euros over the next few years to boost economic growth. In this episode of the Stratfor Essential Geopolitics podcast from RANE, Emily Donahue asks Stratfor Senior Europe Analyst, Adriano Bosoni, whether this could be the plan that finally generates sustainable growth in the third-largest economy in the EU after...

The managers of the Colonial Pipeline paid 5 million dollars to free its infrastructure from a cyber attack. The attack disrupted fuel supplies and set off panic buying on the east coast. It also prompted U.S. President Biden to call for a federal cybersecurity revamp. Will it be enough? RANE founder David Lawrence speaks to Ondrej Krehel, the CEO & Founder of LIFARS. Krehel is recognized worldwid...

In this episode of the RANE Insights podcast, we get tips from a leader in the field about what makes a great CSO. How is well-tuned is your organization’s security? In this podcast, RANE founder David Lawrence learns some best practices from Joseph DeSalvo, the Chief Security Officer at The Blackstone Group. He has more than 20 years of corporate security experience and a successful record leadin...

In this week’s podcast, the opening of vaccines for children aged over 12, the ongoing crisis in India, and the elusive target of herd immunity. Let’s listen as RANE founder David Lawrence speaks with Drs. Fred Southwick and Bill Lang for our weekly coronavirus update. -- Dr. Bill Lang is an expert in public health responses to biological incidents, including pandemics. Dr. Fred Southwick is an in...