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🔴Try EpochTV for just $1 per week: https://ept.ms/3Uu1JA5 🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/S0827ClareMorell 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter One of the last things that Thomas Crooks reportedly searched for on the internet before he tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump was p*rnography. It’s brought the taboo issue of p*rn addiction back into the limelight. “What we have to understand about p*rnography is that it literally rewires the brain," says Clare Morell, senior policy analyst at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. "Their prefrontal cortex—which is that part of our brain responsible for our self control, our impulse control, emotional regulation—isn't fully developed till the age of 25.” Morell is an advocate for child protection and a leading voice in the conversation about digital safety. She's also the author of the forthcoming book, "The Tech Exit: A Manifesto for Freeing Our Kids," which looks at the disastrous effect that p*rnography and other violent and sexual online content has had on society. “Kids don't even need to go looking for it anymore. It finds them on social media," says Morell. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. 💛 Support us to fight for the truth 👉https://donorbox.org/american-thought-leaders Find out where you can watch us on cable TV: https://www.ntd.com/tv-providers.html

🔴 WATCH the full episode: https://ept.ms/S0820GrantNewsham 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter "What we're seeing actually is the outcome of about a 20, 30 year effort by the Chinese to establish control over the South China Sea—and they have generally done it without firing a shot.” - Retired U.S. Marine Colonel Grant Newsham

🔴 WATCH the full episode: https://ept.ms/S0808JeffreyTucker 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter "It's the strangest thing to watch – the way one number coming out on Friday morning, with just a tiny tick-up in the unemployment rate, would completely change the ethos of Washington, Wall Street, [and] all mainstream media. In the blink of an eye, we went from 'the booming, growing economy, we're so happy, inflation's gone, things are fantastic' to suddenly 'Oh no! The recession is probably already here, the world's falling apart, what are we going to do? Sell, sell, sell.' To say the least, it’s an overreaction when, for one thing, the data is a month old, which goes without saying. It's not as if the recession arrived on Friday. The data was from the month earlier. The other thing to observe about this is that it wasn't particularly bad relative to what it's been in the past. The decay in the jobs market has been very, overwhelmingly obvious to me and many others for at least two years, if not going back. We've never really recovered out of the lockdown period. We never recovered the worker participation ratios or labor participation rates. They're still below 2019 levels. And we can take apart the jobs data - there's a growing divergence between household survey and business payrolls, strongly suggesting double counting in the establishment survey. That gap never previously even existed. And then suddenly, in the last four years, it appeared and it's widening. It gets wider to the point that one is plunging and the other is rising." - Jeffrey Tucker

🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/S0824EricPatterson 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter "The promises of the American experiment and liberty are still what people want, and they are most in tune with what does it mean to be an authentic human being. Communism, on the other hand—it only works by force. It keeps its own people locked away in countries that are essentially gulags. It doesn't value the human person—the fundamental dignity of men and women as they are." In this episode, I sit down with Eric Patterson, the president of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, to learn about their research on Venezuela and China. "You could go [to China] for such and such a price and get a new lung or a new liver or something on 24 hours notice. Now, what kind of organ industry can advertise that you can shop around, and on a very, very short notice to get a vitally needed organ?" asks Patterson. We also explore a key flaw in American foreign policy. "We misunderstood how to deal with the Taliban, we misunderstood how to deal with the Iraqis, and so many other places, when we didn't take seriously the religious milieu in which they live, in which they make decisions," says Patterson. "And this is also true of secular states like China ... There is a ruling ideology that's been expressed by President Xi." Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. 💛 Support us to fight for the truth 👉https://donorbox.org/american-thought-leaders Find out where you can watch us on cable TV: https://www.ntd.com/tv-providers.html

🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/S0822ChrisOlson 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter Online crime is on the rise, and the criminals’ methods are getting more and more sophisticated. How do these predators target their prey? And what can be done to stop them? "In certain experiences, up to 50 percent of what a consumer feels and sees and hears on the web is designed specifically for that individual to hear," Olson says Chris Olson, founder and CEO of The Media Trust, a security platform that protects digital consumers and corporations from online threats. "Cyber security as an industry is designed to protect the corporate or the government castle. And, in doing that, it leaves people out of the equation," he says. "Cyber is an attack on a corporation, perhaps even an attack on an employee. Digital crime is an attack on grandmothers and children and all of us in our daily lives." In this episode, we discuss the role of artificial intelligence and targeted ads in internet crime, and what the governments digital priorities should be. "Governments need to protect from digital crime like they do crime—a state, federal, local issue. And we have yet to see that come in," says Olson. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. 💛 Support us to fight for the truth 👉https://donorbox.org/american-thought-leaders Find out where you can watch us on cable TV: https://www.ntd.com/tv-providers.html

🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/S0820GrantNewsham 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter “What you're seeing in the Philippines is just one more step in China's effort to tighten its control over all parts of the South China Sea,” says retired U.S. Marine Colonel Grant Newsham, an expert on the Asia-Pacific region and a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy. In recent clashes near the submerged reef Second Thomas Shoal, there’s been cases of Chinese vessels ramming Philippine ships, deploying water cannons, and injuring multiple sailors. In this episode, Mr. Newsham breaks down the Chinese regime’s decadeslong strategy to gain control of the South China Sea, from methodical island building to deploying a combination of Coast Guard, maritime militia, and fishing fleets to harass and intimidate. 💛 Support us to fight for the truth 👉https://donorbox.org/american-thought-leaders Find out where you can watch us on cable TV: https://www.ntd.com/tv-providers.html

🔴 Try EpochTV for 25 cents per week: https://ept.ms/3LG4rxt 🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/S0817BruceLee 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter W. Bruce Lee is the executive director of the Phoenix Correspondence Commission, the first nationwide convention of states since 1861. It’s a little known government body owned by all 50 states organized to provide another check on the federal government. "After 40-some odd years of no progress in Congress, the states are being looked at as the solution now. And the states do need to buck up," said Lee. "If Congress is unwilling to control itself, then there needs to be some external enforcer." He argues the best way to rein in federal spending and reduce the $35 trillion national debt, is through a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. "At $35 trillion, we're spending more on interest payments than we do on our national defense," he said. "If you do not have economic stability, you do not have anything. The whole house of cards comes tumbling down." Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. 💛 Support us to fight for the truth 👉https://donorbox.org/american-thought-leaders Find out where you can watch us on cable TV: https://www.ntd.com/tv-providers.html

🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/S0815JohnLott 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter In this episode, I sit down with John Lott, founder and president of The Crime Prevention Research Center, to discuss his extensive research into national crime rates, arrest rates, as well as gun permit laws and how they impact crime. "In 2022, the last year that we have the National Crime Victimization data for, while the FBI showed a 2 percent drop in violent crime, the National Crime Victimization data showed a 42 percent increase in total violent crime," says Lott. Why is there such a disconnect between media reporting that violent crime is down and the public’s perception that crime is surging? “If you look at arrests for total crimes, reported and unreported, only 8 percent of violent crimes result in arrest," says Lott. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. 💛 Support us to fight for the truth 👉https://donorbox.org/american-thought-leaders Find out where you can watch us on cable TV: https://www.ntd.com/tv-providers.html

🔴 Try EpochTV for 25 cents per week: https://ept.ms/3LG4rxt 🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/S0813GregAutry 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter Space policy expert Greg Autry believes the Chinese communist regime may be looking at targeting Taiwan with an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapon attack. What would such an attack look like, and why might an EMP be the weapon of choice for the Chinese regime? Autry is the director of space leadership, policy, and business at the Thunderbird School of Global Management and a professor at Arizona State University. He's also the co-author of “Red Moon Rising: How America Will Beat China on the Final Frontier.” “Space is the ultimate high ground,” but America is at risk of losing its superiority in space, the policy expert says. What would losing the second space race mean for America and its allies? 💛 Support us to fight for the truth 👉https://donorbox.org/american-thought-leaders Find out where you can watch us on cable TV: https://www.ntd.com/tv-providers.html

🔴 WATCH the full episode: https://ept.ms/S0810CatherinePakaluk 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter How do shrinking birthrates impact a population? "When I was a kid, people used to write about it: They would say, in Japan, nobody has cousins. And in Japan, nobody has brothers and sisters…That is today the global reality. It's where everybody's going. They will have fewer and smaller kinship networks. And so it's led some people to speculate about whether one of the reasons we see so much investment in political identity today, and, we'll say, larger identity politics in general, is because our own kinship identities are shrinking. We don't come from clans or tribes. We don't have extended families the way we used to. We don't have a dozen crazy aunts and uncles. And so there's some kind of human loss there that I think is difficult to calculate. It's a more atomized society." - Social scientist Catherine Pakaluk

🔴 WATCH the full episode: https://ept.ms/S0723JackBarsky 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter “During the Cold War, the KGB manufactured a bunch of falsehoods and sort-of introduced those falsehoods via willing helpers, such as left-leaning magazines and brands that were still respected. And the ability of the KGB was limited, because how do you do damage to society, to the workings of a society you don't really understand? …But nowadays, the Russian intelligence and also the Chinese intelligence - they know how this country works and they know how to destroy it. And, when we're talking about this kind of psychological warfare, we are incredibly vulnerable to it - again, because we don't have the critical thinking ability to judge what's true and what's not or what might not be true. If it's planted and if it's known by many to be the truth, we’ll say, ‘Oh, it’s got to be true,’ right? And the media doesn't help. Even well-meaning journalists in the mainstream media very often fall victim to these falsehoods that are being spread.” - Jack Barsky

🔴 WATCH the full episode: https://ept.ms/S0803JosephHumire 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter "So this is the ace under the sleeve of Nicolas Maduro…What Maduro has been building, at least for the last year, if not for the last two, three years, is military capabilities to invade his neighbor Guyana. Those military capabilities, [which are] very specific, are provided mostly by Russia, China and Iran. …Guyana has the largest offshore oil discovery in the 21st century. 11 billion barrels of oil were discovered in 2015. And in 2019, 2020, some of that oil started coming to market. So what does Maduro want to do? He wants to push the maritime border to capitalize on that oil discovery." - Joseph Humire, Executive Director of the Center for a Secure Free Society

🔴 WATCH the full episode: https://ept.ms/S0725JohnOndrasik 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter John Ondrasik, also known by his stage name, Five for Fighting, is a Grammy-nominated recording artist who released several number-one hits in the early 2000s, including his single, “Superman,” which became widely known as a 9/11 anthem. “Silent majorities become silent minorities if nobody speaks up," he says. "For me, making a record was really how you made a statement.” Mr. Ondrasik is back in the spotlight for his songs about the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack against Israel.

🔴 Try EpochTV for 25 cents per week: https://ept.ms/3LG4rxt 🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/S0810CatherinePakaluk 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter Why are people in developed economies having fewer and fewer children? Is it really because raising children is simply too expensive? Or are there other factors at play? How will declining population rates affect Western economies and societies? And why are some families bucking this trend and having five, six, seven, or even eight children? How does having children affect a woman’s long-term happiness? In this episode, we sit down with social scientist and researcher Catherine Pakaluk, author of “Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth.” 💛 Support us to fight for the truth 👉https://donorbox.org/american-thought-leaders Find out where you can watch us on cable TV: https://www.ntd.com/tv-providers.html

🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/Y0808JeffreyTucker 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter The end of the U.S. dollar gold standard in 1971 had unexpected, far-reaching consequences for the United States and its adversaries, ones that are central to today’s economic and geopolitical realities. What happened? Jeffrey Tucker is the senior economics columnist at The Epoch Times and the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute. "You're gutting your entire industrial base and turning yourself into a whole country of indebted and stupid consumers. And you’re not making anything anymore. This is a crazy system," said Tucker. In this episode, we dive into what’s really going on with the U.S. economy. Are we in a recession? Are prices and unemployment rising or falling? What about domestic goods and imports? And what is the data really saying? "You need to adjust this data by inflation, which is easy to say. But if you're going to do that, you need an accurate reading of inflation. And if you don't have that, you're going to end up with inaccurate data," said Tucker. He claims that many financial indicators we use to measure economic growth are inaccurate. "So now, we've got the highest rate of multiple job holders we've ever seen. Some people are holding two full-time jobs, which is extremely strange," he said. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. 💛 Support us to fight for the truth 👉https://donorbox.org/american-thought-leaders Find out where you can watch us on cable TV: https://www.ntd.com/tv-providers.html

🔴 Try EpochTV for 25 cents per week: https://ept.ms/3LG4rxt 🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/Y0806PhilMagness 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter Karl Marx died in obscurity in 1883, with only about a dozen people attending his funeral. Even socialist magazines took little notice of him at the time, says Philip Magness, an economic historian and senior fellow at the Independent Institute. So how is it he became such a major figure decades later? Magness decided to find out. In this episode, he breaks down his research into the origins of the popularity of Karl Marx. “What really put Marx on the intellectual map was not the weight of his contributions in Das Kapital, it's not him engaging in major debates. It's actually a political event,” Mr. Magness says. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

🔴 Try EpochTV for 25 cents per week: https://ept.ms/3LG4rxt 🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/S0803JosephHumire 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter To understand Venezuela’s disputed election and the bigger picture of what’s really going on in the region—including how China, Russia, and Iran are involved—leading security expert Joseph Humire gives a comprehensive deep dive. “This is probably the biggest electoral fraud in the history of Latin America, at least in modern times in the 21st century. The difference of what we're talking about is not in the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, it's in the millions of votes,” Humire says. Humire is executive director of the Center for a Secure Free Society and visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He argues Nicolas Maduro has a hidden ace under his sleeve. 💛 Support us to fight for the truth 👉https://donorbox.org/american-thought-leaders Find out where you can watch us on cable TV: https://www.ntd.com/tv-providers.html

🔴 Try EpochTV for 25 cents per week: https://ept.ms/3LG4rxt 🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/S0801RyszardLegutko 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter Ryszard Legutko fought for freedom in Poland as an underground editor in the anti-communist Solidarity movement. But after democracy was restored in Poland, he began seeing trends he didn’t expect in not just Poland, but many other liberal democracies as well. A professor, philosopher, and most recently a politician, Ryszard Legutko explains his findings in his book “The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies.” 💛 Support us to fight for the truth 👉https://donorbox.org/american-thought-leaders Find out where you can watch us on cable TV: https://www.ntd.com/tv-providers.html

🔴 Try EpochTV for 25 cents per week: https://ept.ms/3LG4rxt 🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/S0730ChaseOliver 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter Chase Oliver is the Libertarian Party’s 2024 nominee for U.S. President. In this episode, we get his take on solving the border crisis, boosting the economy, and managing the threat of China and other adversaries. “Eventually, a lot of these countries do end up overthrowing their terrible, autocratic governments, and when they look for an example of what they want to go to, we need to be that shining beacon for them to look at. This is what free speech can give us: the most prosperous and powerful economy in the world, because ideas are allowed to spread," says Mr. Oliver. "I fear what happens if we stop being the best and most free and prosperous nation in the world, because that's what will allow China to truly ascend, is if we step away from our principles and our values. If we hold true to those, there's nothing China can do to stop us because we're going to be a more powerful economy, a more powerful military, and a more powerful cultural force around the world." Mr. Oliver proposes what he calls a "21st century Ellis Island" in order to streamline the process of migration into the United States. "99 percent of people just want to come here and work, get a job, make some money, and possibly take that money back home with them to their family during the offseason if they're in agriculture. We need to facilitate that through a 21st-century Ellis Island that basically says, if you're coming here, come through a port of entry. Submit yourself to a background check and health check to make sure you're all good to go if you are coming, and get to work. When we do that, we streamline the process of getting those peaceful workers right through the port of entry. And we can really laser focus our law enforcement on those who are trafficking human beings for the purposes of labor or sexual exploitation, or for those who bring fentanyl, in order to basically sell it as Xanax," explains Mr. Oliver. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

🔴 Try EpochTV for 25 cents per week: https://ept.ms/3LG4rxt 🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/S0727RainerZitelmann 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter Dr. Rainer Zitelmann is a German historian, sociologist, and the author of several books including, most recently, “How Nations Escape Poverty: Vietnam, Poland, and the Origins of Prosperity.” Why do certain countries that previously suffered under totalitarian regimes emerge stronger, economically, than others? What factors contribute to a nation’s financial success? And what holds it back? Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. 💛 Support us to fight for the truth 👉https://donorbox.org/american-thought-leaders Find out where you can watch us on cable TV: https://www.ntd.com/tv-providers.html

🔴 Try EpochTV for 25 cents per week: https://ept.ms/3LG4rxt 🔴 WATCH the full episode: https://ept.ms/S0720LarryLiu 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter The bipartisan Falun Gong Protection Act, which recently passed the House, is one of the first legally binding bills to target the CCP for its atrocities against Falun Gong. It would require the US to impose sanctions on foreign individuals who are complicit in China's murder-for-organs industry. It is now waiting to be introduced in the Senate. In this clip, Larry Liu, deputy director of the Falun Dafa Information Center, explains the significance of the bill.

🔴 Try EpochTV for 25 cents per week: https://ept.ms/3LG4rxt 🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/S0725JohnOndrasik 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter John Ondrasik, also known by his stage name, Five for Fighting, is a Grammy-nominated recording artist who released several number-one hits in the early 2000s, including his single, “Superman,” which became widely known as a 9/11 anthem. “You know, silent majorities become silent minorities if nobody speaks up," he says. "For me, making a record was really how you made a statement.” Mr. Ondrasik is back in the spotlight for his songs about the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack against Israel. “Many in the music business, particularly with Israel, have historically shamed our industry for all time because they're afraid to speak out with common sense, moral clarity,” Mr. Ondrasik says. “One thing that I think folks don’t realize, especially on the right, is how critical the arts are to changing culture.” We dive into his songwriting and look at how his music took him to war-torn Ukraine and Israel. We also get an exclusive, unplugged performance of two of Mr. Ondrasik’s hit singles. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. *Big thanks to our sponsor for this episode Patriot Gold Group. Check them out here: https://ept.ms/3sr5LhH 💛 Support us to fight for the truth 👉https://donorbox.org/american-thought-leaders Find out where you can watch us on cable TV: https://www.ntd.com/tv-providers.html

🔴 Try EpochTV for 25 cents per week: https://ept.ms/3LG4rxt 🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/S0723JackBarsky 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter Jack Barsky is a former KGB sleeper agent. Born in East Germany in 1949, he was recruited by the KGB while in college and sent to the United States. He spied for the Soviets for ten years before eventually escaping his handlers, as the Soviet Union was collapsing. “I was going to serve the righteous cause. I was going to help free all the oppressed masses in the world and help accelerate the establishment of the worker's paradise on earth. It's a very romantic belief that has taken hold again among some young people: All people are good and if they steal or do bad things, it's because of the circumstances. So, we just need to take the shackles off of the working class—the oppressed. And I believed in this, 100 percent,” says Mr. Barsky. Today, he is a proud American and the author of the 2017 memoir, “Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America.” “A lot of my friends … they were not able to shed the remnants of that brainwashing. And I heard this a lot: You know we had a good cause. The reason that it failed was we had the wrong people at the top,” says Mr. Barsky. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. 💛 Support us to fight for the truth 👉https://donorbox.org/american-thought-leaders Find out where you can watch us on cable TV: https://www.ntd.com/tv-providers.html

🔴 Try EpochTV for 25 cents per week: https://ept.ms/3LG4rxt 🔴 WATCH the full episode: https://ept.ms/S0718CharlesSimon 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter "During my duration as a slave, I was even given options by my slave master - that if I want to be treated like a human being, I [had] to take the offer that's on the table, which is convert to Islam, [be] given Arab names, and become their son. I was willing to convert to Islam if that [would] save me from what I go through every day. And I was willing even to take the Arab names if that [would] make me be treated like a human being. But the third one, it was very difficult to take - to become their son. In my mind, even though I was a child, I have a mom who loved me so dearly and I have a dad. I have a wonderful family. I was kidnapped against my will. Nobody knows what happened to me. Now, how can I give away my identity? During [those] times, there is one word that I [knew]: Yes and yes and yes to everything. I cannot say 'no' to anything...even to the torture. I have to say yes to it. So, what I always [told] them [is] 'Yes, I will let you know. I will let you know.' I'm buying time, because I'm relying on two things: hope and faith." - Former South Sudanese slave and human rights activist #SimonDeng

🔴 Try EpochTV for 25 cents per week: https://ept.ms/3LG4rxt 🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/S0720LarryLiu 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter In China, a grassroots, underground movement of Chinese has been cutting through the communist regime’s censorship and propaganda machines—one pamphlet at a time. Since the Chinese communist regime launched a nationwide persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual discipline 25 years ago, Falun Gong’s millions of adherents in China started creating secret underground print shops to expose the regime’s human rights atrocities. All across China, they secretly distribute flyers, DVDs, and brochures en masse, hang posters in public areas in the dead of night, and circulate software to their fellow Chinese so they can circumvent China’s internet blockade. Those arrested face years in prison—as long as 15 years. So who are these people? And why is their story critical to understanding China today? In this episode, I sit down with Larry Liu, deputy director of the Falun Dafa Information Center. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. 💛 Support us to fight for the truth 👉https://donorbox.org/american-thought-leaders Find out where you can watch us on cable TV: https://www.ntd.com/tv-providers.html