Caleb Maupin
Old & New Mccarthyism: Fear of Russia, China in the American Mind
It has become almost cliche to compare the current atmosphere of Russo-Phobia in US politics to the 1950s “Mccarthyism.” The sometimes open and sometimes subtle demonization of alleged Chinese...
“New Energy Vehicles”: Can China Break Big Oil’s Global Order?
In the antebellum south of the United States, the planation owning slaveholders kept their power because of an economic order summed up by the slogan “Cotton is King.” In today’s international order, a small clique of western monopolists...
Energy Desperation or Why Trump Can’t Restore Friendship With Russia
Despite all the talk of Russia in 2016, and all the arguments and allegations around it, US policy toward the largest country on earth in terms of geography remains unchanged. This is due to the fact that policy is driven by...