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Radio Free Pizza(The) Word Is "Bond"Here Zach interviews Daniel Natal—author of Actionable Ethics (2022) and host of the now-on-hiatus The Daniel Natal Show, on which Zach appeared last year—about the historical and contemporary implications of the international bond market for geopolitics. Daniel first explains (at ~2:45) the historical development of the international bond market and how the current Anglo-American financial system evolved from when the Baring Brothers created the concept of an international market for sovereign debt in the 18th century, allowing for cross-border investment in government bonds that financed infrastructure projects, wars, and nation-building efforts. Accordingly, Daniel emphasizes the bond market’s role...
2025-02-171h 30
Radio Free PizzaEnemies Among the Three AmigosLast Wednesday’s bulletin continued our exploration from last Sunday of the resurgent North American Union conspiracy theory, sparked by President-elect Donald Trump’s comments over the past few months about expanding U.S. territory to include Canada, Greenland, and Panama. Such comments connect interestingly to a great deal of evidence supporting the aforementioned conspiracy theories, in reverse chronological order: 2011’s The North American Idea: A Vision of a Continental Future, by Robert Pastor; the 2005 “Three Amigos” where then-President Bush, then-President Fox, and then-Prime Minister Martin of the U.S., Mexico, and Canada signed the Security and Prosperity...
2025-01-1916 min
Radio Free PizzaAbandoned BordersLast 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 comments in comparison to Trump’s past fervent advocacy for a southern border wall, aimed at fortifying national boundaries. That of course contrasts starkly with any contemporary interest in territorial expansion, which would involve erasing or redrawing bord...
2025-01-1517 min
Radio Free PizzaSplit Value CircuitsOur March dispatch outlined a political philosophy that we (cheekily) called Libertarian Communism: a socialism with American characteristics aiming to maximize individual liberty while fostering communal ownership and control over the means of production for basic goods and necessities. The embedded contradiction in the name is designed to (hopefully) capture attention across the left- and right-wings of the American body politic, and if typical Americans indeed have short attention spans, it might even sell well—if only to a narrow segment of the population, and only for the briefest time. (From the time generously afforded me on Th...
2024-05-2652 min