[The following free culture work is an excerpt from Levers of Power, or the Ghost of Peter Cooper in All His Glory.] The propaganda-fueled extremism characteristic of Libertarian, “neoliberal” market fundamentalism has generated widespread disinformation regarding what was momentarily portrayed as among its most important agendas: abolishment of the Federal Reserve. When Alexander Hamilton, the well-groomed, wealthy and dapper industrialist with a shitty childhood, proposed the establishment of The First Bank of The United States in …

BY KEITH M. JUDGE There are two reasons Grover Cleveland won his second term in office: he and his opponent were disliked by The Left, who composed half the electorate, and Cleveland’s first term was relatively mild and interrupted by Benjamin Harrison, who capitulated to The Left’s monetary demands, but developed a reputation for siding with company men in labor conflicts. Harrison tried to drive a wedge between wage labor and the self-employed. These two …

BY KEITH M. JUDGE We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace — business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united …

BY KEITH M. JUDGE 2020 is the perfect year for a general strike. It’s a nice round number, sequential, and it’s the year that global leadership, and leadership, globally, was squarely tested and found sorely lacking. In the middle of December, 2019, The People’s Party of China silenced doctors in Wuhan, who attempted to warn each other and alert the public to the threat of COVID19, the virus that has forced the world to shelter at …

BY KEITH M. JUDGE On the 16th of April, 2018, 6 members of the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to pass a bipartisan bill designed to fortify The Office of Special Counsel, a position created at the request of President Grant. After The Civil War, Union soldiers expected something more than a lowly government office in The Department of Treasury or Post Office for their service, so they scooped it out of a grossly inflated tax on …

BY KEITH M. JUDGE The most critical issue right now is testing. Not only must everyone be tested, everyone must submit to being tested. I’m sorry, that’s just the way it is. This is not something everyone does voluntarily. This is a matter of civic duty. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the next batch of nurses and doctors we train to go door to door, conducting a census, swabbing mouths and distributing aid. Only …