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American Thought Leaders

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At a time when our nation is portrayed as increasingly polarized, media often ignore viewpoints and stories that are worthy of attention. American Thought Leaders, hosted by The Epoch Times Senior Editor Jan Jekielek, features in-depth discussions with some of America’s most influential thought leaders on pertinent issues facing our nation today.

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My Bank Account Was Unlawfully Frozen by Prime Minister Trudeau. Now I’m Suing: Edward Cornell

March 18, 2024 21:13 - 37 minutes - 34 MB

“There I was: no cash, no access to my credit cards, nothing. And I left on a Monday morning. I had other jobs that I had to take care of while I was there, and I had no money for gas. I had no money for lodging, nothing for food ... For what? What did I do?” In 2022, Eddie Cornell was at home in New Brunswick, Canada, when he began to hear chatter of a trucker’s convoy making its way to Ottawa to protest the COVID lockdowns and vaccine mandates. “And I thought, ‘I need to be there,’” says...

How US Dollars Built—And Continue to Build—China’s Military: James Fanell and Bradley Thayer

March 18, 2024 21:04 - 1 hour - 134 MB

Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2 “The first rule of strategy is don’t assist your enemy. And of course, we violated that time and time again,” says Bradley Thayer, a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy. After aggressively building up and modernizing its military, China now has a larger navy than the United States. How does the Chinese military compare to America’s overall? Wha...

Censorship, Guns, and Administrative Power: Mark Chenoweth Explains 3 Major SCOTUS Cases

March 15, 2024 11:30 - 35 minutes - 49.4 MB

“It’s not the government’s job to police the line between true speech and false speech. The Constitution doesn’t give our government that power. The government has the power to police the line between lawful speech and unlawful speech.” Mark Chenoweth is the president and chief legal officer of the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), a nonpartisan civil rights group dedicated to protecting constitutional freedoms from government violations. “Most people aren’t going to know why their spee...

The Truth About TikTok: FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr

March 13, 2024 20:28 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MB

“Right when TikTok was negotiating a national security agreement with U.S. officials, a Beijing-based team surveilled the location of journalists who’ve been writing negative stories about TikTok. And the evidence at this point of their real national security threat is very clear.” Brendan Carr serves as the senior Republican commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission. He has testified before Congress about the unique national security threat to America posed by the video-hosting...

The Secret to Addiction Recovery: Former Addict-Turned-Entrepreneur Joe Polish

March 11, 2024 22:49 - 52 minutes - 95.7 MB

“I was drinking alcohol, I was smoking cigarettes, I was snorting cocaine, I was snorting crystal meth, and I was freebasing—all in the same day. And I was a complete wreck,” says Joe Polish. A former addict turned successful entrepreneur, Mr. Polish is the founder of Genius Recovery, a nonprofit that’s trying to change how society approaches addiction, and Genius Network, a network of high-achieving entrepreneurs. In this episode, we explore what’s broken in our society, what’s fueling th...

Jessica Rose Breaks Down 1.6 Million Adverse Event Reports in VAERS, Definitive Evidence of Causality

March 08, 2024 11:30 - 47 minutes - 87.6 MB

Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2 “We’re up to over 1.6 million reports in VAERS in the context of these products ... The numbers keep going up,” says Jessica Rose, an immunologist and independent researcher. She recently co-wrote a paper examining the data surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine adverse events. It was the first published paper to call for a global moratorium on the COVID-19 geneti...

Inside Argentina’s New Government, with Minister of Security Patricia Bullrich

March 07, 2024 22:02 - 26 minutes - 49.1 MB

“We decided to change this paradigm from one day to another, and in one month, we have cut our budget in 5 percent of the GDP. It’s historical ... The President declared that Argentina was in zero deficit.” In this episode, I sit down with Argentina’s Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich. We dive into the radical changes her country has experienced since Javier Milei was elected President. “We are deregulating the economy. We are simplifying the economy. We are going to do a huge proces...

Why Many Chronic Diseases Are Preventable–And Why No One Tells You This: Dr. Robert Lufkin

March 04, 2024 19:28 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MB

Dr. Robert Lufkin was once a self-described “product of the medical establishment,” with a fruitful career as a professor of medicine. He’s published hundreds of scientific papers, and has received millions of dollars in government funding. But when, out of the blue, he was diagnosed with four seemingly unrelated chronic diseases—and told that he was going to have to be on medication for life—he started looking elsewhere for answers. “It was through lifestyle changes that I was able to rev...

Former Prime Minister Liz Truss: Britain’s Democratic Process Has Been ‘Outsourced’

March 01, 2024 11:07 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MB

“Currently, the government spends 45 percent of GDP in Britain. You know, that is a pretty astonishing figure. It’s 36 percent in the United States, so you’re not that far behind. But in Britain, it’s 45 percent, and I don’t think that represents a proper free market economy.” In this episode, I sit down with Liz Truss, former prime minister of the United Kingdom. We dive into the reality of mass immigration and net-zero climate policy in Britain and discuss how parliamentary powers are bei...

CPAC Panel: ‘The Good Doctors’ With Dr. Robert Malone and Dr. Brooke Miller, Hosted by Jan Jekielek

February 28, 2024 11:06 - 1 hour - 56.7 MB

Epoch Times senior editor Jan Jekielek hosted a panel “The Good Doctors” with Drs. Robert Malone and Brooke Miller at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, on Feb. 24.

An Impending Disaster for America in the Pacific?–Grant Newsham

February 27, 2024 00:59 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MB

In the pending $95 billion security aid bill, most of America has been focusing on U.S. aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. But few noticed that key funds for another region were removed—an action that could give communist China control of much of the Pacific. Grant Newsham is an expert on Asia-Pacific, a senior fellow with the Center for Security Policy, and author of “When China Attacks.” Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect...

How the FBI and CIA Operate as ‘States Within a State’: Michael Waller

February 21, 2024 21:30 - 1 hour - 58.1 MB

Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2 “So, you had this left-wing, pro-communist and left-wing, anti-communist sections in our intelligence services. And then when the OSS was abolished, many went into the State Department. And they shaped the policies that we’re living with today.” In this episode, I sit down with Michael Waller, senior analyst for strategy at the Center for Security Policy and...

Trump’s NATO Comments, the Tucker-Putin Interview, and the WHO Pandemic Treaty: Historian and Estonian Official Anti Poolamets

February 20, 2024 22:22 - 1 hour - 83.4 MB

“It looks very legitimate when the President speaks, yes, but I don’t believe a word when a KGB man speaks ... This was a propaganda message for [the] American public first.” Anti Poolamets is an Estonian historian and a prominent member of the Conservative People’s Party. He is an outspoken supporter of Donald Trump’s policies concerning Europe, and an equally fierce critic of Vladimir Putin’s expansionist ambitions and his invasion of Ukraine. “Trump was a man with [a] backbone and [the]...

Peter Boghossian on Ivy League Cover-Ups: Harvard Plagiarism Just the Tip of the Iceberg

February 18, 2024 03:49 - 50 minutes - 93.2 MB

Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2 “There are people—a non-trivial number of people—who teach in the academy, many of whom have tenure, who have obtained their credentials fraudulently. They have lied, they have cheated on their PhD, and that is an extraordinarily serious problem on multiple levels.” As professor of philosophy at Portland State University, Peter Boghossian was known for chall...

What Is Shen Yun? An Exclusive, Inside Look With Leading Shen Yun Artists | Special Episode

February 16, 2024 03:44 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MB

At a time when much of the performing arts seem to be on the decline, one company has experienced a meteoric rise. In less than two decades, Shen Yun Performing Arts has grown from one to eight companies touring the globe simultaneously—each with its own live orchestra. Shen Yun now travels to 200 cities and performs in front of over one million audience members each year. These artists are driving a restoration of authentic Chinese culture—yet they are banned in China. In this special ep...

Arrested and Banned From School, Josh and Nick Alexander on Their Fight Against Gender Ideology and Mandates

February 16, 2024 03:40 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MB

Brothers Josh and Nick Alexander are evangelical Christians who have become known in Canada for taking vocal stances against COVID-era mandates and gender ideology in schools. They were highly active in Canada’s Freedom Convoy and the Million March for Children, a walk-out protest against gender ideology. They’ve been arrested multiple times and faced major backlash for their activism. Josh Alexander was suspended and ultimately banned from physically attending his Catholic high school aft...

Dr. Pierre Kory Explains COVID-19 Vaccine Shedding

February 14, 2024 02:52 - 47 minutes - 87.1 MB

Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2 For years now, we’ve heard rumblings about COVID-19 vaccine shedding. Unvaccinated women talk of menstrual abnormalities after coming into close contact with vaccinated individuals. Some recently vaccinated mothers report babies experiencing bad reactions after breastfeeding. So what is this phenomenon? Is it real? And if so, what kinds of people are most aff...

The Perverse Incentives Eroding Patient Care, From the Opioid Crisis to the Gender Craze: Dr. Carrie Mendoza

February 09, 2024 11:30 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MB

“When Obamacare happened, what it did was really give more power to the insurance companies and middlemen. I saw a lot of some of the smartest doctors in my group basically retire early, leave, or go into health tech. There are people that have gone into different areas in terms of autonomy, creativity, increasing their wages, but the actual clinical practice of medicine continues to have been marginalized.” Dr. Carrie Mendoza is an emergency medicine physician and an advocate for the depol...

The Cost of Staying Silent in the Face of Bullying Mobs: Katherine Brodsky

February 07, 2024 11:32 - 1 hour - 56.8 MB

“If you can’t stand up for a human being that you respect, and love, and appreciate, and if you can’t stand up for a principle that you believe in, if you can’t stand up when somebody’s doing something that isn’t right—then who are you?” Katherine Brodsky was at the peak of her journalistic career, writing about technology, film, and culture for publications such as Variety and The Washington Post, when she fell victim to the cancel culture mob. “People were sending me threats. They were t...

How Drug Cartels Infiltrated the Prescription Drug Market With Fake Pills: Michael Brown

February 05, 2024 18:30 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MB

In recent years, drug cartels have built a vast and lucrative business selling fake prescription drugs laced with fentanyl—which drives addiction faster than any other synthetic narcotic, says Michael Brown, who was a special agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for over three decades. The majority of people dying from fentanyl-related overdoses now are taking what they think is a fairly innocuous prescription drug like Xanax, and they have no idea that it’s been laced with f...

The ‘Media Literacy’ Trojan Horse: Alvin Lui on Woke Indoctrination

February 02, 2024 11:30 - 40 minutes - 36.6 MB

“Parents think that media literacy means knowing when someone has actually fake news versus facts. What media literacy and organizations like the News Literacy Project [are doing is] brainwashing children to not listen to independent journalists or organizations like Epoch, or like what Chris Rufo is doing, ... and to instead only go back to the mainstream media.” In this episode, I sit down with Alvin Lui, a bona fide magician-turned-parental rights advocate, to understand the latest woke ...

How a Tiny Gulf Nation Is Waging a Massive Information War on the West: Jonathan Schanzer

February 01, 2024 10:38 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MB

“Qataris were the ones who said, ‘Here, come to our country, we'll host you.’ So, now it is home to the largest American airbase in the Middle East, where we conduct our war on terrorism. And then down the street from this Al Udeid Air Base is Hamas, the Taliban, al Qaeda financiers, ISIS financiers … it is a truly bizarre arrangement.” Dr. Jonathan Schanzer is senior vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He’s also a former terrorism finance analyst at the...

‘Billboard Chris’ Elston: A Child Is Never Born Wrong

January 29, 2024 11:30 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MB

“Empathy, kindness, understanding: Yeah, these are all things that everyone agrees with. But what’s really going on? Lies, deception, and physical child abuse.” Chris Elston was living a normal life as the father of two girls in the suburbs of Vancouver, Canada, when he became aware of what he calls the “greatest child abuse scandal in modern medicine history.” “And the only thing I could do was to have some signs made and go outside,” he says. Over the last few years, Billboard Chris, as...

The Most Transparent Elections in the World? Adam Savit on the Taiwan Model

January 27, 2024 17:01 - 44 minutes - 41 MB

What can Americans learn from Taiwan when it comes to conducting secure and transparent elections? In this episode, I sit down with Adam Savit, director of the China Policy Initiative at the America First Policy Institute. He was in Taiwan recently to observe the presidential elections there. What is Taiwan’s significance for the United States? What would Japan do if the Chinese communist regime invaded Taiwan? Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do n...

Dr. Michael Nehls: How Changes in Our Brain Make Us More Susceptible to Indoctrination

January 24, 2024 11:30 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MB

“You have to have a high level of psychological resilience, and these cells provide the resilience.” In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Michael Nehls, a molecular geneticist, physician, and author, most recently of “The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom.” Dr. Nehls advocates for a strong “mental immune system.” His studies look at the critical portion of our brain known as the hippocampus, which processes and indexes memories. “Bu...

The Truth About Gender Clinics: Whistleblower Jamie Reed

January 22, 2024 20:45 - 48 minutes - 88.4 MB

Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2 “We were bullying people into these concepts. It was an ideological bullying across the medical spectrum. And as you pull out of medicine, you see this in the schools, in journalism, in peer-reviewed publications—it’s everywhere.” In 2018, Jamie Reed began working as a case manager at a pediatric gender center. But after witnessing firsthand the irreversibl...

Unmasking J6 Lies: Panel on “The Real Story of Jan. 6 Part 2” Documentary in US Capitol, with Sen. Ron Johnson

January 20, 2024 23:24 - 1 hour - 70.4 MB

“We haven’t even begun to be told the full story, which means the truth about January 6,” said Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) at a screening of the new EpochTV documentary “The Real Story of January 6 Part 2: The Long Road Home” in the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 9, 2024. After the screening, I hosted a panel discussion with experts William Shipley, a 21-year DOJ prosecutor turned defense attorney who is representing a number of Jan. 6 defendants; national security expert and former national i...

Phyllis Chesler: Gender Apartheid and the Silence of ‘Faux Feminists’

January 18, 2024 23:14 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MB

“So, we landed in Kabul. This is a long time ago, long before the Taliban. And the airport official just smoothly took my American passport away and said, ‘No problem, madam. We'll return it to your family.’ Never saw it again. And then I discovered that my father-in-law had three wives and 21 children.” Phyllis Chesler was born into a Jewish-American family. In 1961, at just 20 years of age, she traveled as a new bride with her husband to Afghanistan, where she entered into a traditional, ...

Kyle Bass: Why Investors Need to Get Out of China and Implications of the Taiwan Election

January 15, 2024 23:52 - 48 minutes - 89.3 MB

Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2 As China grapples with a real estate and banking crisis and a demographic disaster, where is China’s economy headed? What kinds of calculations is Chinese leader Xi Jinping making vis-à-vis Taiwan? In this episode, we sit down with Kyle Bass, founder of Hayman Capital Management and a founding member of the Committee on the Present Danger: China. What are t...

An Inside Look at Shen Yun–And How It’s Defying the CCP’s Global Campaign to Cancel It: Jared Madsen and Ying Chen

January 13, 2024 02:16 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MB

“Virtually every theater that we go to all around the world since Shen Yun’s inception has either gotten a phone call or a letter from the Chinese embassy or the Chinese consulate putting pressure on them to not have us perform,” says Shen Yun Master of Ceremonies, Jared Madsen. From blackmailing theaters and governments to slashing company bus tires, the Chinese communist regime has gone to extreme ends to subvert Shen Yun, a New York-based performing arts company. As Shen Yun launches it...

Ilya Shapiro Explains Limits of the First Amendment Following Campus Firestorms

January 08, 2024 17:04 - 1 hour - 114 MB

Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2 “My whole career was in the balance over this badly-phrased tweet, the substance of which something like 76 percent of Americans agree with.” In early 2022, Ilya Shapiro was about to start a new job as the executive director of the Center for the Constitution at Georgetown University, when he was suspended for a “racist tweet.” “This is not the Berkeley hip...

Inside California’s Open-Air Drug Markets and Booming Retail-Theft Industry: Leighton Woodhouse

January 05, 2024 11:15 - 1 hour - 61.9 MB

“San Francisco is much more about organized crime, both cartel-backed organized drug dealing, and then the organized retail-theft industry, which is driven by the addicts who are supplied by those cartel-supply drug dealers. Oakland is different. Oakland is much more opportunistic, more entrepreneurial, if you will. I think it’s mostly just kind of self-organized crews of thieves who just drive around doing crimes: dipping, which is car break-ins, armed carjackings, home invasions …” Leight...

Dr. Paul Marik: Key Strategies You Aren’t Told That Help Prevent Cancer

January 05, 2024 02:29 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MB

“The bottom line is that 30 to 40 percent of cancers are preventable. … And there are simple things that people can do to reduce your risk of getting cancer,” says Dr. Paul Marik, a founding member of the Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) and former chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School. “Cancer is big business. It’s highly profitable. The average cost of chemotherapy for a patient is probably $100,000,” Dr. Marik says. He’s the a...

‘Heartbreak Land’: Baroness Caroline Cox on Going Where Even the Red Cross Won’t Go

January 02, 2024 15:39 - 22 minutes - 41.4 MB

“In middle Nigeria, they are attacking—frequently—the Christian villages and townships in the Middle Belt, and that’s gone on for some time, and the attacks are ruthless. And I’ve been to the villages that have suffered an attack from the Islamist Fulani herdsmen, and homes are still burning.” In this episode, I sit down with Baroness Caroline Cox, a member of the British House of Lords and founder of the Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust. “We have a mandate to heal the sick, feed the hungry,...

How California’s Policies Forced Me to Give Up My Farm and Move to Texas: Mollie Engelhart

January 02, 2024 15:28 - 44 minutes - 50.6 MB

“I’m a vegan restaurant owner, an organic farmer—a true environmentalist that cares about the soil, the water, and the air. I employ 350 people. I feel like I should be exactly what California wants … But I literally can’t make payroll,” says Mollie Engelhart. A chef, entrepreneur, and regenerative farmer, Ms. Engelhart built an incredible farm-to-table business in California that had eleven years of year-over-year growth before the pandemic. But California’s policies ultimately strangled h...

Christine Anderson: How Europe Became a Society 'That Hates Itself'

December 25, 2023 23:46 - 1 hour - 117 MB

“The EU institutions—the way they’re structured, the way they interact—it's not only undemocratic, it's downright anti-democratic. And on top of that, it’s not a mistake they made. It is by design.” In this episode, I sit down with EU parliament member Christine Anderson. She represents the Alternative for Germany party and is part of the Identity and Democracy Group in the European Parliament. Everyone that is not in support of whatever globalist agenda is being advocated for or pushed at...

Winsome Sears: Why Socialism Always Fails

December 22, 2023 11:15 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MB

In this episode, we sit down with Virginia Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears, author of “How Sweet It Is: Defending the American Dream.” We discuss her remarkable story, her values, and what drives her. “Here I am, second in command in the former capital of the Confederate States. Don't tell me America hasn't changed. Of course it has. Now, are there problems? Of course. There are problems in other countries. There is no utopia. But America is the best we've got and we're going to keep her,...

Exposing the ‘Controligarchs’ With Seamus Bruner

December 21, 2023 00:24 - 44 minutes - 82 MB

Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2 “The human rights abuses and the crackdowns on dissent and all of the terrible things that you see in China? Our elites love those things.” In this episode, I sit down with Seamus Bruner, co-author of “Controligarchs: Exposing the Billionaire Class, their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life.” “The [World Economic Forum] members contro...

The Truth About George Floyd's Death: Liz Collin

December 18, 2023 11:30 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MB

Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2 “It wasn't so much what the jury was allowed to see, but what they were not. We even talked about this body camera footage—this is about an 18 minute interaction with George Floyd that day. It's 90 seconds in the end that the jury is allowed to see in trial.” In this episode, I sit down with Emmy Award-winning reporter Liz Collin, producer of the new narrati...

The New Biosecurity State: Former UN Top Official Ramesh Thakur on How Science Became Dogma

December 16, 2023 10:30 - 56 minutes - 103 MB

“We have seen … the transformation of the quintessential liberal democratic state into the national security state, then the administrative state, then the surveillance state, and now the biosecurity state. At each of these developments, you have an expansion of state power, and the spread of the state tentacles into increasingly intimate areas of public life and individual life,” says Ramesh Thakur. Mr. Thakur is a former United Nations assistant secretary-general and professor emeritus of...

Naomi Wolf Pulls Back Curtain on the Last 3 Years of Chaos

December 13, 2023 23:59 - 57 minutes - 106 MB

Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2 “People think democracies die with a sudden shock, and you see Black Shirts or Brownshirts goose-stepping in the streets. That's not how democracies die. Democracies die through a thousand cuts,” says Naomi Wolf, CEO of DailyClout and author of the new book, “Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith, and Resistance in a New Dark Age.” “Our Justice Department has bee...

How a COVID-19 Shot Upended Our Lives: Andre and Christian Cherry

December 09, 2023 02:34 - 56 minutes - 104 MB

Within a few hours of his second shot of the Moderna vaccine, Andre Cherry started having tremors in his left arm, which then spread to his other limbs. Soon he was forced to use a wheelchair. As his symptoms have worsened, he and his family have spent the last two years seeking help—and answers. His brother Christian is now his full-time caregiver, and they have both become advocates for the vaccine-injured. “If people acknowledge that vaccine injuries are real—that they can devastate fam...

EXCLUSIVE: How My Nation Was Targeted by the CCP—Former Micronesian President David Panuelo

December 07, 2023 02:31 - 43 minutes - 79.3 MB

The Chinese communist regime has been aggressively seeking to expand its control of the Pacific Islands through political warfare, bribery, and “gray-zone” activities, says David Panuelo, the former president of the Federated States of Micronesia. During his tenure, which lasted from 2019 to 2023, he penned a number of letters to other leaders in the region to raise awareness about the Chinese regime’s belligerent tactics. “I wasn't doing it because I wanted to be bold. I wanted to do it t...

The Bewildering Amnesia of America’s Elite: Bradley Thayer

December 05, 2023 02:29 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MB

In this episode, Bradley Thayer exposes the workings of the Chinese regime’s political and ideological warfare. He’s the director of China policy at the Center for Security Policy and author of “Understanding the China Threat.” What makes TikTok a particularly potent weapon? And how should the United States approach the Chinese regime? Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

BLM’s Misguided Sympathy for Hamas: Pastor Dumisani Washington

December 02, 2023 02:03 - 36 minutes - 67.2 MB

"They have these torture facilities, sometimes right next to school. The kids can hear the people being tortured in Gaza. These kinds of guys are screaming out because Hamas is torturing them. Where's BLM? Where are they when these types of human rights abuses happen on a daily basis?" In this episode, I sit down with Pastor Dumisani Washington, founder and CEO of the Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel and the author of “Zionism and the Black Church.” "These rallies are just slogan...

Dr. Ryan Cole: How DNA Contamination May Explain Post-Vaccination Rise in Cancers, Autoimmune Diseases, and Clots

November 29, 2023 14:49 - 1 hour - 114 MB

Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2 In this episode, Dr. Ryan Cole breaks down what we know about DNA contamination in the COVID-19 genetic vaccines, why it’s significant, and how it may be related to the rise in cancers and autoimmune diseases. “My concern isn't just these COVID shots. My concern is this entire technology. A lipid nanoparticle in and of itself is an unproven product … They're...

Is EU Censorship Coming to America?—Here's What You Need to Know: David Thunder

November 27, 2023 15:26 - 48 minutes - 55.7 MB

What will be the impact of the European Union’s sweeping new rules for Big Tech, not just on Europe, but also on America? “The issue with this legislation is that there are extremely vague categories such as misinformation and hate speech that are very, very difficult to define in law … so this opens the door to a form of arbitrary bureaucratic power over the platforms,” says David Thunder. He’s a political philosopher and a research fellow at the Institute for Culture & Society at the Uni...

Richard Lindzen: Key Points Climate Alarmists Get Wrong

November 24, 2023 19:41 - 1 hour - 79 MB

Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2 “The minute you hear 'the science is settled,' you know something is wrong. Science is never settled,” says Richard Lindzen, professor emeritus of atmospheric sciences at MIT. “Climate is one of the earliest examples of cancel culture … I don't think the public is quite aware of the pressures that were brought to bear to get rid of opposition to this,” Mr. L...

How Big Pharma Captured Public Health: Toby Rogers

November 17, 2023 22:49 - 45 minutes - 82.6 MB

“250 years of economic and political liberalism, and then it disappears in the blink of an eye in early 2020,” says Toby Rogers, a medical freedom advocate and a fellow at the Brownstone Institute. Over the last two years, he assessed every FDA and CDC expert advisory committee meeting for COVID-19 vaccine approvals—and what he discovered was shocking, he says. “It's preposterous, the level of junk science that's being passed off as actual science by FDA and CDC right now,” Mr. Rogers says...

Why Are So Many Students Supporting Hamas Terrorism? | Tabia Lee

November 14, 2023 22:47 - 42 minutes - 78.2 MB

“When I turn on my TV and I see groups of students yelling 'Gas the Jews!'—that's not freedom of speech. That's something else. That's calling for murder. That's supporting killing innocent people. How can we be supportive of that?” In this episode, we sit down with Tabia Lee, a former DEI educator at De Anza College in California. She was fired after refusing to follow the college's woke social justice orthodoxy. Today, she is trying to reform California’s mandatory ethnic studies high sch...

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