American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times

"This is insane. 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," says Jeffrey Tucker 🔴 PREMIERE 8/8, 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0808JeffreyTucker

“Here's the fundamental contradiction of Marxist theory: Marx presents himself as a representative of the masses…And yet, every time there’s a revolution in Marx’s name. It’s not this popular mass uprising. It’s actually a small band of generally well-educated, probably upper middle class intellectuals, people that come from non-proletarian backgrounds, but found themselves interested in socialist and communist theorizing,” says economic historian Philip Magness. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0806PhilMagness

"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.” Join me tonight for a comprehensive deep dive on what’s going on in Venezuela with security expert Joseph Humire, executive director of the Center for a Secure Free Society and visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0803JosephHumire

What will Maduro do next? Security expert Joseph Humire sees two possible scenarios: 1. The "Nicaragua" scenario - brutal repression of the Venezuelan people. 2. The "Bolivia" scenario. In 2019, when Evo Morales faced a similar situation, instead of cracking down, he resigned, went into exile, and came back to power one year later with a rebranded government, more legitimacy, and a weaker opposition, Humire says. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0803JosephHumire

Ryszard Legutko fought for freedom as an underground editor in Poland's Solidarity movement. But after the USSR fell, he saw trends he didn’t expect. He’s author of “The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies” 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0801RyszardLegutko

"If people hoped at the beginning, the Declaration of Human Rights…[would] somehow make us safer, that our freedoms will be guaranteed, it didn't work, we have less and less freedom,” argues Professor Ryszard Legutko. 🔴 PREMIERE 8/1, 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0801RyszardLegutko

How do libertarians propose we solve the border crisis? How best to boost the economy and manage the threat of China and other adversaries? We discuss with libertarian presidential nominee Chase Oliver 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0730ChaseOliver

"We have market capitalism for the average person, but we have socialism for the rich and well connected. And that's a problem, because it creates a top-heavy economy," argues libertarian presidential nominee Chase Oliver. 🔴 PREMIERE 7/30, 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0730ChaseOliver

"In socialist times, there was no freedom of press. Everything was great most of the time, if you read the newspaper." Dr. Rainer Zitelmann breaks down the importance of economic freedom in fostering economic growth. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0727RainerZitelmann

"You can only escape poverty with economic growth, & the precondition for economic growth is #EconomicFreedom." Dr. Rainer Zitelmann, author of "How Nations Escape Poverty: Vietnam, Poland, and the Origins of Prosperity" 🔴 PREMIERE 7/27, 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0727RainerZitelmann

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. Below, Larry Liu, deputy director of the Falun Dafa Information Center, explains the significance of the bill. 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0720LarryLiu

"Seeing the fact that 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, I think that also gives me energy to say something, because so many are not,” says Grammy-nominated recording-artist John Ondrasik 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0725JohnOndrasik

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