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How Edward Bellamy’s ‘Looking Backward’ is looking ahead

January 26, 2026 By Clark Johnson

Revisiting Bellamy’s book, published in 1888, where capitalism has withered away

Contradicting messages on Greenland

January 22, 2026 By Chen Xia

European leaders continue to appear bewildered.

U.S. attack on Venezuela aimed at rescuing the petrodollar

January 22, 2026 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

U.S. global economic power has long rested on the fact that oil is sold in dollars on the world market. Venezuela and China were challenging that system.

Carney’s Davos confession: Globalization’s ‘rules-based order’ was a lie

January 21, 2026 By C.J. Atkins

“We participated in the rituals,” Canadian leader says, as U.S. capitalism’s junior partners face a wake-up call.

Essential lessons from the book ‘The Capital of Slavery’

January 15, 2026 By Stu Becker

The book explains that slavery was foundational to the capitalist system in the United States and representation of the class struggle.