American Thought Leaders

🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/S0917MartyMakary 🔵 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. Marty Makary is a surgeon, professor at Johns Hopkins University, and author of "Blind Spots: What Medicine Gets Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health." "We've got to recognize now the best practices are exactly opposite of what the medical establishment pounded into pediatricians for 15 years," he says. In this episode, we explore the culture of medical groupthink and cases where health recommendations have produced disastrous results, looking at diabetes, peanut allergies, opioids, C-sections, and the low-fat diet. "The medical establishment created a dogma in 1955 that fat was bad for your health. It was based on one guy: Dr. Ancel Keys," says Dr. Makary. How can America reverse the trend of chronic disease and poor metabolic health? Is there any hope? "The foundation of the medical profession is not to have a one-size-fits-all. It's always to consider nuance and to consider scientific detail," says Dr. Makary. 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/S0914SarahCook 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter From fake online personas to manipulated audio and deep fakes to artificial amplification networks, the Chinese Communist Party is becoming more creative about how they manipulate Americans, Canadians, Taiwanese, and other targets online. Independent China researcher Sarah Cook has been studying the Chinese regime’s online campaigns for years. She says there are five key tactics the regime uses to influence our media and the global information space. 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/S0912EJAntoni 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter EJ Antoni is an economist and fellow at the Heritage Foundation, whose research focuses on fiscal and monetary policy. In this episode, we break down the discrepancies between government data, media reporting, and today’s economic realities. "Essentially, a third of all the jobs we thought we had added over that year are gone. They never existed. It's like taking four whole months of job creation and ripping them off the calendar," says Antoni. Are the financial models no longer trustworthy? "We don't see the numbers quite matching up to a lot of the government statistics," says Antoni. "And we get into some very perverse situations where the [Bureau of Labor Statistics] actually counts something as an increase in quality when, in fact, it's a decrease, and the consumer is paying more for it." Antoni analyzes various indicators and inputs to determine what the real data reveals about the state of our economy. "Where I think this becomes scandalous is the fact that these statistical problems first became evident in the spring of 2022, so more than two years ago, and nothing has been done to correct them." 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/S0907DavidMatas 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter Greetings everyone, While imprisoned in China, Falun Gong practitioner Peiming Cheng was forced to undergo surgery and woke up with a foot-long gash across his side. He lost part of his liver and lung. He's the first known survivor of China’s forced organ harvesting regime, says international human rights lawyer David Matas, co-author of “Bloody Harvest.” And in a stunning admission, the Chinese regime has recently publicly acknowledged doctors operated on Cheng without his consent—supposedly to save his life. What is the significance of this case? And what’s next? In this episode, I sit down with David Matas and also speak to several others now speaking out for Cheng’s case: Robert Destro, who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor and was instrumental in getting Cheng to America; former Congressman Frank Wolf, a fierce champion of human rights in his three decades in Congress; and Nina Shea, director of the Center for Religious Freedom at Hudson Institute.

🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/S0905MichaelBrown 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter "Currently, there is a surplus of fentanyl pills in America. The surplus, I believe, is driving increased addiction rates, because now fentanyl pill prices are going down. Drug usage is going up. Addiction rates are going up." In this episode, I sat down with Michael Brown, a former DEA special agent and the current director of Counter-Narcotics Technology for Rigaku Analytical Devices. The cartels are now mass producing or have the capacity to mass produce multi-ton quantities of fentanyl, which is a direct indication that they're receiving more precursor chemicals from China," said Brown. We dug deep into the fentanyl crisis and illicit drug trade in the United States and got an insider’s look into the narcotic supply chain, from China, to Mexico, to the southern U.S. border. "We've passed the point of no return in terms of reducing addiction in rate to what's coming into the country in terms of narcotics—meaning, until we can reduce the supply chain, we're not going to be able to reduce the addiction rate," said Brown. But how best to reduce the supply chain? Is it merely a matter of sealing our border? "We know that 98% of all the narcotics coming into the United States are transported in vehicles—in commercial cargo that come across the United States. So, for me, the vulnerability for the cartels is that transportation cross-border network that they have," said Brown. 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/S0831GeorgeGilder 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter We’ve heard a lot about how Israel is a beneficiary and dependent on the United States. But is that really the case? "Our economy is heavily dependent on Israel. And there's this illusion that really irritates me—that somehow Israel is a dependent of the U.S., or some kind of abusive child or something. But Israel really gives us far more than they take," argues George Gilder. He is an investor, economist, and best-selling author of 23 books, including the post-Oct. 7 updated edition of his 2009 book, “The Israel Test: How Israel’s Genius Enriches and Challenges the World.” "You destroy Israel, the value of the world economy would drop by 50 percent," says Gilder. "It's knowledge that enables wealth. And knowledge comes from human minds created in the image of their Creator. And this is the great monotheistic vision that Jews have vouchsafed to the world and that is crucial to Western civilization." From the first pogroms in ancient Egypt and up to the present day, what role has envy played in anti-Semitism? "I think the evil in men's hearts is to tear down accomplishment, excellence, and genius. It's really a perverse envy that we all have to labor to overcome. I mean, envy is natural to all of us, and it's our Israel test. It cleaves the hearts of the world and it continues to challenge us," says Gilder. 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/S0829StarParker 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter “When [social security] was first established, you had 40 workers for every retiree. Today, we have three workers for every retiree. You also have people living longer, and you have all people forced into this system that they don't own … and they can't transfer it to their heirs,” says Star Parker. She is the founder and president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) and editor of the book “The State of Black Progress.” America’s social security system is broken, Parker says. And it’s not just social security. She argues that America’s welfare and safety net programs are all built on a one-size-fits-all model that fails to actually help the poor. Instead, they entrench generational poverty in certain communities, she argues. 💛 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 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/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

🔴 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/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/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

🔴 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 “I was born in a village where we were subjected to attacks on a monthly basis, or yearly basis. The government troops [would] come and burn down the villages—kill whoever that they will find. … When I see what happened recently in Israel, where they went and burned down, and shot people—that's exactly what I experienced when I was a child.” When Simon Deng was nine years old, he was kidnapped from South Sudan and brought to the North. He was given to an Arab family as a “gift,” and enslaved for more than three years. “I'm here talking to you as a living proof of the slavery which still exists,” says Mr. Deng. 25 years ago, Charles Jacobs helped to liberate tens of thousands of slaves in Africa, and received an award from Coretta Scott King for his work. “We went to the slave redemption sites, and we talked to the survivors who were brought back. And they told us their stories,” he says. Today, Mr. Deng and Mr. Jacobs are cofounders of the newly-formed African Jewish Alliance, which raises awareness about the threat posed by Jihadism. “Hamas is no different than Boko Haram in Nigeria," says Mr. Jacobs. "It's one front in Israel, but it belongs to a global movement. And people need to know that.” Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and guests, 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