American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times

When John Ondrasik, known as Five For Fighting, wrote a song about the Afghanistan withdrawal, people told him he would get canceled if he released it. “And to be honest with you, if I was 30 years old trying to make a career in the music business, I don't know if I would have put that song out.” He thought twice about it, then decided to release it. We discuss with the man himself. 🔴 PREMIERE 7/25, 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0725JohnOndrasik

"A lot of things I buy from department stores, Walmart, Target…most of them were made in #China, right? How many of them were made in a labor camp by a fellow fellow Falun Gong practitioner like me?" It’s been 25 years since the Chinese regime launched its persecution of Falun Gong. To understand the regime’s war on this spiritual discipline and where things stand now, @JanJekielek sat down with Larry Liu, deputy director of the Falun Dafa Information Center. 👉 WATCH NOW on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0720LarryLiu

"The fellow came to me from my right - short guy in a black trench coat - and he whispered into my ears, 'You've got to come home, or else you're dead.’” “Deep Undercover” author Jack Barsky breaks down his life as a former Soviet spy. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0723JackBarsky

Ever wonder what it's like to be a communist spy working for the KGB? Join us for a deep dive with former Soviet sleeper agent and author of “Deep Undercover” Jack Barsky. 🔴 PREMIERE 7/23, 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0723JackBarsky

"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?" - Former South Sudanese slave and human rights activist #SimonDeng 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0718CharlesSimon

As evidence grows that Uyghurs are being killed by the Chinese regime for their organs, it's important to understand that many of the CCP's persecution tactics were first honed and deployed at scale in the campaign against #FalunGong. "If we give the CCP a free pass, they're just going to move on to one group after another," says Larry Liu, deputy director of the Falun Dafa Information Center. Today marks 25 years since the Chinese Communist Party launched its persecution of Falun Gong, turning tens of millions of ordinary Chinese into de facto enemies of the state. Their story is critical to understanding China today and the Chinese communist regime’s playbook. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0720LarryLiu

"This is the largest civil disobedience…information freedom movement in modern Chinese history." A grassroots movement has been cutting through China's censorship and propaganda machines to expose the communist regime's human rights abuses—one pamphlet at a time. So who are these people? And why is their story critical to understanding China today? 🔴 PREMIERE 7/20, 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0720LarryLiu

“We are very distinct from other branded DEI - diversity, equity and inclusion - programs out there in the sense that many of those other programs tend to reduce human beings to their immutable characteristics. So, they would say to you, ‘You are a white man and therefore you are privileged. And therefore you belong to the “oppressor class.” I, as a person of color, belong to the “oppressed class.” And we are - you and I - locked in a Manichean struggle from now until the end of time that we could brand as ‘oppressor-oppressed.” And now, what that does actually is put us both inside of an inescapable prison, because this is all that we are. This is all that we have ever been in, and this is all that we will be. So, there's no escape valve from this sort of ideology or worldview. One has to dispense with that worldview entirely and see it for the reductive thing that it is.” - Chloé Valdary 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0716ChloeValdary

"The first African country on the continent of Africa [that] became an Islamic state is the country of Sudan, where now everybody was subjected to the Sharia law. Everybody was subjected to the Islamic law.” Dr. Charles Jacobs and Simon Deng break down the global threat of Jihadism and the realities of modern-day slavery in Africa. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0718CharlesSimon

If you're an anti-racist, "what in the world would stop you from acting against the enslavement of black people… just because it wasn't done by whites?" When Simon Deng was 9, he was kidnapped from South Sudan & brought to the North. He was given to an Arab family as a “gift” and enslaved for more than 3 years. Now, he is raising awareness about modern-day slavery in Africa. He and Dr. Charles Jacobs, who helped liberate tens of thousands of people, are co-founders of the African Jewish Alliance. 🔴 PREMIERE 7/18, 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0718CharlesSimon

"The Chinese Communist Party, when they opened up [the Chinese market], they came up with this very smart plan,” says Hollywood veteran Chris Fenton. “If you want to sell fish in the Chinese market, you have to teach them how to fish. If you teach them how to fish, you're going to sell your fish there. But eventually, they're going to learn how to fish, and then they're going to catch their own fish. And then the government's only going to want the fish they catch to be sold to their people. And that's essentially where we are,” "Cut to today, some of our biggest competitors…not just in the PRC, but in the global market, are now Chinese competitors,” Fenton says. In this episode, he breaks down how the Chinese regime outsmarted Hollywood and American business. 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0713ChrisFenton

"There has to be the right amount of buy-in from people, because the people who you want to train - they have to be able to take ownership of the experience because ultimately, at some point, our partnership is going to end, and they're going to have to carry that mantle forward.” Chloé Valdary is the founder of Theory of Enchantment, an alternative model to DEI training. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0716ChloeValdary

"Diversity is necessary, in short, if you want to create magic, or resiliency, or trust, or any of the other conditions that are necessary for human flourishing." Chloé Valdary developed an alternative model for DEI called the Theory of Enchantment. 🔴 PREMIERE 7/16, 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0716ChloeValdary

"I have a friend who's a doctor, who says that it used to be, when the doctors walked down the hallway, the administrators would run and hide out of fear, right? And now, it's the other way around. And it's because the doctors are being yelled at for not filing the form right or not coding something right. They're not accountants. That's not why they got into this. They got into this to hold the hand of the patient and help the person heal or prevent illness. And we've taken that power away from them. So, I like to remind doctors: they're the only one with any moral authority. They take the Hippocratic Oath, and that really means something. And we, as patients, are absolutely dependent on them because the pharmaceutical companies are beholden to their investors. They have a fiduciary responsibility to deliver returns - so do hospital systems, even academia.” - Emily Kaplan 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0710EmilyKaplan

#China: "From engineering, to automobiles, to cosmetics, etc. we started to see them start to duplicate what we were doing…Cut to today, some of our biggest competitors…not just in the PRC, but in the global market, are now Chinese competitors.” In this episode, Hollywood veteran and insider Chris Fenton breaks down how the Chinese communist regime exploited Hollywood, the NBA, and American businesses that were eager to access China’s massive market. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0713ChrisFenton

"You could argue the next James Bond movie should have a Chinese villain…Why do we keep going back to these Cold War day villains that probably don't even exist anymore? Let's make it more realistic. But a studio won't tread there." Even though Hollywood blockbusters aren’t making much money in China anymore, studios still fear angering the Chinese communist regime, says Hollywood veteran and producer Chris Fenton. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0713ChrisFenton

"Whatever picture that paints is the picture that's painted. Who cares what they want to call it? It's just boats floating on the surface." We must follow the #logic without fear of being politically labeled, says Warren Smith. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0709WarrenSmith

"It's the only time a surgeon will cut on the same scar over and over again. Surgeons are taught never to do that." Emily Kaplan breaks down the data on how C-sections can be damaging to a woman's health in a variety of ways. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0710EmilyKaplan

Big thank you to our panelists & to everyone who tuned into our very special webinar recently on gender ideology. You guys asked some great questions & we hope we were able to answer them to your satisfaction. ...And in case you missed it, WATCH HERE 👇 https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/panel-understand-gender-ideology-5671684

"I think it's admirable…for a court to recognize its errors, particularly the Supreme Court because there's no appeal from the Supreme Court to another court." In this episode, New Civil Liberties Alliance founder Philip Hamburger explains the recent SCOTUS vote to overturn the Chevron deference doctrine which greatly expanded the power of federal agencies. 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0706PhilipHamburger