American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times

"This is the big question now with the new Trump administration: what's going to happen in Gaza?” Shai Fund president Charmaine Hedding says that Hamas needs to be dealt with because missiles continue to be launched from Gaza into Israeli territory. "If we support Hamas and we leave them in power...then we're going to end up with more wars and more instability in the Middle East. The choice is ours.” 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0218CharmaineHedding

"I watched as the Yazidi women and the Christian women were taken as sex slaves and sold in the markets of Raqqah and in Turkey and across the Middle East.” In 2014, watching ISIS rise to power, Charmaine Hedding thought to herself, "Who's going to do something about this?" She felt obligated to stand up for persecuted minorities. So, she started the Shai Fund, and has helped over 600,000 since. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0218CharmaineHedding

“We really don't have a health care system, even though we call everything ‘health’ insurance, ‘health’ care, and this and that. If you look at what we are doing for our patients, we’re really trying to manage their disease and dealing with crises," says Dr. Jingduan (JD) Yang, a specialist in integrative medicine and a fifth-generation practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine. "As far as health, nobody is really doing much about it. For example, if you see a primary care doctor, they run tests. They check on you. They say, ‘Well, you look fine…Come back next year.’ What are they waiting for? Literally, they’re waiting for you to get sick. And they can find something they can do: surgery or put you on medication. Until then, doctors are not very useful for you, but [by then] you already have lost your health.” 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0121JDYang

Trump has ordered agencies to get rid of 10 rules or regulations for every new one they want to introduce. Truflation founder Stefan Rust argues there should also be a time limit on rulings. They should be reexamined, adjusted, and optimized every five years, he says. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0215StefanRust

"Reductions in head count are never nice…You look at Fortune 500 companies, when they have to cut, they cut 10,000, 20,000, 5% of their workforce…And now, I think for the first time, a government is experiencing what that feels like,” says Truflation founder Stefan Rust. “The budget deficit has just gone out of control, where the debt has accumulated to nearly $40 trillion…It's so hard to even fathom the magnitude of $40 trillion.” 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0215StefanRust

"HHS needs to deprogram itself from gender ideology. It needs to get rid of all the ideological language & all the directives. The NIH, for example, needs to stop pumping money...into research whose only purpose is to promote these interventions. I actually think that instead of shutting off the valve, NIH should reorient itself and devote money to studying the harms, which are not studied. Nobody's studying harms because the gender clinicians doing the research don't want to know. They're only studying benefits, and then they're spinning the results of their studies. We need evidence on detransition and regret, which are real and growing phenomena." -Leor Sapir 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0118LeorSapir

A “unified national identity is an absolute essential for a successful democracy,” says John O’Sullivan, former speechwriter & policy writer for Margaret Thatcher and now president of the Danube Institute. “Multiculturalism, as it’s played out in Canada, has produced an unsuccessful society," he argues. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0213JohnOSullivan

"If we continue on a ‘multicultural’ path, it's a path which is going to go in the direction of ever more aggressive & hostile identity politics. And people will feel that their neighbors are their enemies,” says John O’Sullivan, former speechwriter and policy writer for Margaret Thatcher and now president of the Danube Institute. Has the “multiculturalism” experiment failed? We’re sitting down with John O’Sullivan, former speechwriter and policy writer for Margaret Thatcher and now president of the Danube Institute. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0213JohnOSullivan

"DeepSeek has clearly used data coming from TikTok to train itself." “The next weapons, particularly AI weapons, are all driven by data…The more data you have, the more powerful weapons can become,” says former US Air Force & Space Force chief software officer Nicolas Chaillan. “It's foolish to give the CCP access to all that TikTok data.” The Chinese regime is collecting enormous amounts of data to understand how to manipulate Americans, he says. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0211NicolasChaillan

Is DeepSeek a Sputnik moment for America? No, says former US Air Force & Space Force chief software officer Nicolas Chaillan. But it does reveal something equally disturbing: The CCP can essentially manipulate our markets with just noise and false information and wipe out $1 trillion in market cap. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0211NicolasChaillan

“When the 1619 Project came out, there were a number of conservatives who said America is not stained, it's pure. And the virtue of the 1776 Project, which I had some small part in, was that we said, 'Yeah, that slavery thing - that was a bad thing. But here's the difference: Our criteria for moving forward is not that something is pure. Our criteria is, can it be redeemed?' And our view was that America, for all of her problems, is still on the path toward hope and redemption. Suffering is not an argument against life. That's the key here." - Joshua Mitchell 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0114JoshuaBob

"Environmentalist groups would sue the EPA over some alleged misconduct that's going on, on a piece of land or with a manufacturing plant or whatever, and the EPA would immediately settle and give them $100 million. It's a business model.” “I'm an environmentalist, but I think that environmentalism itself has gotten out of balance. It's going too far." Bad environmental policies played a major role in the devastation in LA, says Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy for the California Policy Center. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0208EdwardRing

"You either have to thin the forests or you have to let them burn…If you do these small fires, do small prescribed burns, you do grazing, you do mechanical thinning, you can bring the fuel down.” Bad policies played a major role in LA's devastation, says Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy for the California Policy Center. "The insurance companies got out…because they weren't seeing any evidence that we were taking the kind of precautions we need to mitigate fire risk. They also weren't permitted to raise their rates." 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0208EdwardRing

“They're at war for the American mind. That's why you have TikTok out there. That's why you have DeepSeek. That's why you have the China Daily. They're out there trying to control information and your perception of reality. And we have to understand that.” Rep. Abraham Hamadeh (R-Ariz.) tells me why his first bill since he recently took office seeks to ban China Daily from widespread distribution in the House of Representatives. “I'm the son of immigrants from Syria. [I have] family from Venezuela, so I understand that if freedom is extinguished here at home, there's no place to go. So we can never allow ourselves to bend the knees to the Marxists, communists.” 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader:https://ept.ms/S0206AbeHamadeh

"I want to see these members of Congress trying to justify allowing a newspaper that is foreign-controlled by the communist Chinese." Rep. Abraham Hamadeh's first bill since taking office aims to ban the widespread distribution of China Daily in the House of Representatives. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0206AbeHamadeh

“They’re at war for the American mind. That’s why you have TikTok out there. That’s why you have DeepSeek. That’s why you have the China Daily. They’re out there trying to control information and your perception of reality,” says Rep. Abe Hamadeh (R-Ariz.). As his first bill since taking office, Rep. Hamadeh is seeking to get China Daily, a registered foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, banned from being distributed widely in the House of Representatives. . 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0206AbeHamadeh

"The US government should have a unified concerted effort to circumvent [China's] firewall." Michael Pack ran the U.S. Global Agency for Media (USAGM) under the first Trump administration and thinks it can be a powerful tool against America’s adversaries, especially the Chinese Communist Party. “USAGM has a pot of money for internet firewall circumvention technology, and there are similar pots of money in other parts of the government, like the State Department & the Defense Department, but they don't coordinate." 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0204MichaelPack

"Science continues to validate that a healthy lifestyle is the most powerful tool there is in protecting your brain," says Dr. Daniel Monti. This is a must-watch for anyone interested in brain health! https://ept.ms/NewEraOfMedicineFightsDisease

Inside the Brutality of the Chinese Communist Party After the persecution of Falun Gong began, some who proved their willingness to commit brutal crimes were even promoted to high positions. https://ntd.nyc/Ep3MassKillingInTheEast

How China's Growing Influence in Latin America Threatens the U.S. We hear about this serious concern from Joseph Humire, an expert on Latin America specializing in foreign policy, national security, and asymmetric warfare. https://ept.ms/S0123JosephHumire