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Last Sunday we covered the resurgence of conspiracy theories about a North American Union following once-and-future President Donald Trump’s provocative comments about expanding U.S. territory to include Canada, Greenland, and Panama, to which we drew parallels with the consequently revived conspiracy theory of the North American Union. However, we took no time to discuss the irony of those commen...

Viewers of our most recent spectacle may recall our query about plans to engineer a North American Union—a supranational bloc in the mold of the European Union—following once-again-soon-to-be-President Donald Trump’s cheeky rhetoric since late November about adding Canada to the U.S. as a 51st state, which in December developed into his expressed interest in acquiring Greenland as a U.S. territory...

Welcome to 2025, Radio Free Pizza gourmets! To mark this latest January in our species’ never-ending march, I hope you’ll humor me enough to review our publication’s history, and thereafter to outline its journey forward. Some among you might have noticed that our dispatches and bulletins now come with audio voiceovers that Substack syncs to various platforms— Apple , Spotify , and YouTube , to be...

To ring in 2025, Zach interviews Brian ( Tarot by Fergus ), a professional tarot card reader, about what he can tell us for the coming year. The friends spend a few minutes discussing their shared history in Minneapolis—which we delved into here almost a year ago —while Brian explains his reasons for leaving Minneapolis, citing increasing social tension, the 2020 riots, and subsequent urban decay....

Finally! We’re almost at the end of it! Best (belated) wishes to celebrants of the holidays on the Gregorian calendar, and to all those who outlived the northern hemisphere’s 2024 winter solstice—first to Radio Free Pizza gourmets, of course, and then to humanity in general. As the year draws to a close, it’s only fitting to look back at the year that was. For this final dispatch of 2024, let’s re...

🎧 In This Episode: Zach interviews Indie, co-founder of INN, on his journey to anti-Zionism, the influence of Zionism in Jewish communities, the fight for Palestinian sovereignty, and the vital role of independent media in exposing imperialist narratives. ✨ Featured Guest: Indie (Co-Founder, Indie News Network): https://x.com/IndLeftNews INN YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@IndieNewsNetwork INN...

Here at Radio Free Pizza , we’re waiting on tenterhooks for the Islamic Republic of Iran to launch Operation True Promise 3 against the State of Israel for the latter’s 26 October attack on its nuclear research facility in Parchin, twenty miles southeast of Tehran. While Israel framed the strike as a preventive measure aimed to delay Iran’s nuclear program, skeptics question its effectiveness agai...

This past week, Zach sat down with Dr. Edgar Avendaño Mejía—whom premium subscribers will recall seeing in the third episode of Better Futures , to which the less fortunate can listen here —to interview him about Mexican politics, focusing on the concept of “Mexican humanism” and its relation to neoliberal policies. In Edgar’s assessment, the new government continues old politics with a new disgui...

The day before the 18–19 November 2024 meeting of the “Group of Twenty” (G20) major economies in Brazil, still-President Biden authorized Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied long-range ATACMS missiles to strike deeper into Russian territory, marking a significant shift in U.S. policy. The announcement followed months of Ukrainian appeals for permission from NATO allies to use Western missiles in support...

Last month saw the passing of Gustavo Gutiérrez-Merino Díaz—one of the founders of liberation theology—at the age of 96. Rooted in the belief that the teachings of Jesus Christ call for social justice, particularly for the poor and oppressed, liberation theology developed in response to the massive inequality of Latin America in the 1960s and argues that faith should be a force for change, challen...

Surely you’ve heard by now—and if you somehow missed it, I can’t express my envy—but after a campaign season that saw lawfare against a former president , an assassination attempt against the same, his opponent’s withdrawal due to obvious dementia, the anointing of another rival who scrambled even to assemble her policies , and a second assassination attempt on the challenger, Donald Trump defeate...

On the eve of the 2024 U.S. presidential election and again on the night thereof, Zach (Zacharoni Pizza) and Cameron (Cam Burger) discuss the conflict-ridden domestic and international climates and how the election might affect each. By way of introduction, the former describes himself as a one-time leftist who abandoned the left/right paradigm due to disillusionment with liberals given their demo...

In American politics, an “October surprise” describes a late-breaking event that emerges in the final weeks leading up to the U.S. presidential election in November, boosting one candidate’s chances or damaging the other’s just as many voters are making their final decisions, and dramatically shifting the course of an election and the U.S. political landscape. But what if we apply this concept to...

Geopolitics junkies, come get your fix! The 2024 BRICS+ summit now in progress in Kazan, Russia marks a critical juncture for the trading bloc and its growing list of members as they consider expanding their influence beyond talk and into a full-fledged economic powerhouse. For that reason, the summit might indeed mark a turning point in global finance and the international capital order: after al...

Believe it or not, Friedrich Nietzsche was born a hundred and eighty years ago yesterday. (I know: it really snuck up on all of us!) As soon as we realized it, we here at Radio Free Pizza considered it appropriate to briefly review how some of Nietzsche’s philosophy factored in to a couple of our past deliveries, and—much more importantly—to fill in whatever other details we can. Returning custome...

Though political landscapes are ever-changing, the human species (or Western civilization, anyway) nonetheless keeps revisiting the political philosophy of one of history’s most influential thinkers: Aristocles of Athens—AKA, “Plato”—the ancient Greek philosopher whose ideas on politics continue to influence modern thought. Known for his profound insights into the nature of justice, governance, an...

Last Sunday some turkey ( “a stupid, foolish, or inept person” ) named Ryan Wesley Routh was arrested in West Palm Beach, Florida, after an alleged assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump on the links of his golf club—the second such attempt on Trump this year. Secret Service agents fired (first, this time) on the alleged attempted assassin after Trump had finished the course’s fift...

Happy U.S. Labor Day to all you Radio Free Pizza fanatics! On Monday we in the imperial core fired up our grills and enjoyed a well-deserved break for one of our comparatively few days off, and it therefore seems appropriate to reflect on the struggles and victories of the workers who fought for the rights we enjoy today: such as, for example, those workers whom the U.S. government needed to appea...

Historians remember Ancient Rome (753 BC – 476 AD) as a cornerstone in the historical development of political philosophy and governance models throughout Western civilization. The city’s historic periods of monarchy, republic, and imperial rule provided a diverse array of political systems that have profoundly influenced modern governance. The Roman Republic, in particular, introduced concepts of...

No matter how much we might complain , apparently they’re just determined to stage the 2024 American presidential election, so let’s take another look at what’s happening in the latest episode of today’s most-watched reality-show. This week, the drama changed scenes to Chicago for the still ongoing 2024 Democratic National Convention and the public coronation of Vice President Kamala Harris as the...

Citizens of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela beat their boots to the ballot-boxes last Sunday, where they made their choice between the incumbent President Nicolás Maduro of the United Socialist Party and his many opponents —but particularly the former diplomat Edmundo González—and between them decided who will sit in their country’s executive chair for the next six years, starting 10 January...

The Pizzagate conspiracy theory of 2016 alleged that high-ranking members of the Democratic Party, including former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her campaign manager John Podesta, were involved in a child-sex-trafficking ring operating out of a Washington, D.C. pizzeria called Comet Ping Pong. Proponents of the theory claimed that coded messages about illegal activities were hidden i...

“Great news!” you might have responded earlier this week upon learning that President Biden’s social media account had announced ( on National Ice Cream Day ) that he has decided not to run in the 2024 U.S. presidential election: those of you, at least, who would rather prevent elder abuse. About half an hour later, he endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him as the Democratic nominee....

I’d hazard to guess you’ve heard how, on 13 July 2024, former U.S. President and Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump was shot in the upper right ear at a campaign rally in Butler, PA, in an attempted assassination that killed one attendee and critically injured two others . Trump was promptly surrounded and assisted by Secret Service agents, then transported to a hospital where he was trea...

Happy Independence Day to all those Radio Free Pizza fanatics living in the USA! (Or to everyone else, my sincere apologies for the policies of the U.S. ruling class, though U.S. citizens deserve an apology from them too.) The eve of America’s birthday seems like the perfect time to reflect on the past, present, and future of our nation’s political landscape. Just as our May Day bulletin explored...