When we think of Globalization, the mind conjures a First Would led economic religion of free trade, international banking and a multilateralism that promised to end all wars. Unfortunately, an unelected globalist infrastructure driven by multinational interests promoted the outsourcing and dismantling of US manufacturing and jobs to the benefit, power and profit of billionaires, multinational corporations, investment banks and foreign interests.

The drain was massive as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) re-wove globalism and capitalism into their own strategy for economic control and expansion. In addition, the West’s own commitment to openness and free markets provided every opportunity for China’s one-sided exploitation of the West.

In the evolution of this struggle between Western ideals and CCP exploitation, we come to question the meaning of democracy, citizenship and the life blood of our nation. Globalization or Democracy outlines the elements of our struggle and the stark alternatives that lie ahead.

Clancy Hughes majored in economics at the University of Kansas largly because of the common sense and grass roots philosophy of John Ise, then Chief of the Economics Department.Hughes developed a lasting passion for economics and trade. With the Korean War, however, he enlisted int he air Force, transferring after the war to the University of Michigan and the study of medicine. Medical practice presented many professional and business challenges. While Hughes chose to pursue medicine, he never lost his fascination with economics, He served as President of the Arapahoe Medical Society and the Colorado Foundation for Medical Care along with managing three medical clinics and a full-time medical practice. In 1993, Hughes sold his medical clinic, retired and moved to Alaska. There he founded and flew an air charter business, then retired again to write on business, medicine and the economy. His book Alaska Floatplane was published in 2005. Clancy with wife Diane live in Homer, Alaska.