American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times

Before the Russia-Ukraine War began, most analysts did not believe Vladimir Putin would actually invade—until he did. Dr. Andrei Illarionov was one of the few that accurately predicted what was to come. From 2000 to 2005, he was chief economic advisor to Vladimir Putin and Putin’s personal representative at the G-8. In 2005, he resigned and became an outspoken critic of Putin and the Kremlin. In this episode, he offers his take on Putin’s goals, his worldview, and why Illarionov believes the war could easily have been avoided. 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/10505AndreyIllarionov 🔴 Start Your Free Trial (Code: Jan) 👉 https://ept.ms/FreeTrialJan

The U.S. continues to fund Chinese labs to the tune of millions, says National Pulse investigative journalist Natalie Winters, even though the Chinese regime ultimately controls all the research. "There is really no distinction between civilian-use science…and military technologies." She recently broke the story of the Texas-based Galveston National Laboratory’s memorandum of understanding with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. It included a clause that “basically stipulated that the Wuhan Institute of Virology could demand that the Galveston National Laboratory—again, a taxpayer-funded U.S.-based lab—would have to delete files, pathogens, materials,” she says. We discuss her extensive research into CCP influence in America, from TikTok to compromised “fact-checkers” to serious conflicts of interest among the individuals that shaped America’s COVID policy. 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/10503NatalieWinters 🔴 Start Your Free Trial (Code: Jan) 👉 https://ept.ms/FreeTrialJan

“I had never seen a clause like this, and it basically stipulated that the Wuhan Institute of Virology could demand that the Galveston National Laboratory—again, a taxpayer-funded U.S.-based lab—would have to delete files, pathogens, materials.” National Pulse investigative reporter Natalie Winters recently broke the story of the Galveston National Laboratory’s memorandum of understanding with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. We discuss her extensive research into #ChineseCommunistParty influence in America, from TikTok to compromised “fact-checkers” to serious conflicts of interest among the individuals that shaped America’s COVID policy. “Even since COVID-19, millions of dollars have continued to pour out of this country, taxpayer funds, to Chinese Communist Party-run labs and to fund research in #China—when we know there's no transparency.” 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/10503NatalieWinters 🔴 Start Your Free Trial (Code: Jan) 👉 https://ept.ms/FreeTrialJan

"I don't think it's because they actually believe that it will prevent the spread of COVID…They have [other] reasons." Are #China's lockdowns related to Xi Jinping's plans for #Taiwan? We discuss in PART 2 with Gen. Robert Spalding. 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/10430RobertSpaldingP2 🔴 Start Your Free Trial (Code: Jan) 👉 https://ept.ms/FreeTrialJan

“They’re going to go element by element through their economy and see which of those is still open to attack from the West … to seal those up prior to invading #Taiwan.” Previously, in part one of my interview with retired Brigadier General Robert Spalding, he broke down the Chinese regime’s strategy of unrestricted warfare, which is detailed in his latest book “War Without Rules: China’s Playbook for Global Domination.” Now in part two, we discuss what’s really going on behind #China’s new round of draconian lockdowns. Is it potentially related to Xi Jinping’s plans for Taiwan? 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/10430RobertSpaldingP2 🔴 Start Your Free Trial (Code: Jan) 👉 https://ept.ms/FreeTrialJan

What explains the Chinese regime’s draconian lockdowns? Is it really about achieving "zero COVID"? In this two-part episode, I sit down with retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Spalding, author of the new book, “War Without Rules: China’s Playbook for Global Domination.” Gen. Spalding is an expert in the Chinese regime’s strategy of unrestricted warfare—in which any and all tools are allowed, from flooding our streets with fentanyl to stealing intellectual property to exploiting a global pandemic. The goal? To dominate the world without firing a single shot. “Warfare is daily. It never ends. There's no beginning and end like there is here in the West.” 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/10428RobertSpaldingP1 🔴 Start Your Free Trial (Code: Jan) 👉 https://ept.ms/FreeTrialJan

“Warfare is daily. It never ends. There's no beginning and end like there is here in the West.” What explains the Chinese regime’s draconian lockdowns? Is it really about achieving "zero COVID"? In this two-part episode, I sit down with retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Spalding, author of the new book, “War Without Rules: #China’s Playbook for Global Domination.” Gen. Spalding is an expert in the Chinese regime’s strategy of unrestricted warfare—in which any and all tools are allowed, from flooding our streets with fentanyl to stealing intellectual property to exploiting a global pandemic. The goal? To dominate the world without firing a single shot. 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/10428RobertSpaldingP1 🔴 Start Your Free Trial (Code: Jan) 👉 https://ept.ms/FreeTrialJan

"Everything we think of as modernity is Western in origin…The history of most peoples across the world is actually one group coming in and crushing another and taking their stuff. So the West found a way around that, in the tradition of liberal democracy." Douglas Murray on his new book "The War on the West" on "The War on the West" 🔵Start Your Free Trial of @EpochTV 👉 https://ept.ms/FreeTrialJan 🔴WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/10426DouglasMurray 📺CLIP 👆

"It's a war on the West's history…Its philosophical & religious traditions are being torn down…Take away Shakespeare, take away all of the canon of Western literature & what have you got?" Douglas Murray on his new book "The War on the West" 🔵Start Your Free Trial of @EpochTV 👉 https://ept.ms/FreeTrialJan 🔴WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/10426DouglasMurray 📺CLIP 👆

"We are not merely talking anymore about something that comes out from a few campus radicals or a few weird, fringe, far-left groups. We're talking about government after government sucking this up and spouting it back out to its peoples." Deep-dive tonight with Douglas Murray on his new book "The War on the West" 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/10426DouglasMurray 🔴 Start Your Free Trial (Code: Jan) 👉 https://ept.ms/FreeTrialJan

"I could decide that the Islamic tradition has given the world nothing because every Islamic scholar lived in a time of slavery. Would that be fair? No…it'd be a wildly stupid thing to [say]" Tonight, we sit down for a deep-dive with Douglas Murray on his new book "The War on the West." From rule of law to liberal democracy to the scientific method, “everything we think of as modernity is Western in origin,” Murray says. 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/10426DouglasMurray 🔴 Start Your Free Trial (Code: Jan) 👉 https://ept.ms/FreeTrialJan

“We have seen the ultimate demise of our healthcare system when it's in the hands of bureaucrats,” says Dr. Richard Urso, a co-founder of the International Alliance of Physicians and Medical Scientists. In part two of our interview with Dr. Richard Urso, we discuss his work with other prominent doctors to create both a national telehealth system as well as an entirely new infrastructure of doctor-led medicine, where power is decentralized and less easily corrupted. “Once doctors became employees during this pandemic, it made them very reluctant to speak out,” Dr. Urso says. Dr. Urso is a drug design and treatment specialist, an ophthalmologist, and former chief of orbital oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center. 👉PREMIERE 6pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/10423RichardUrsoP2 🔴 Start Your Free Trial (Code: Jan) 👉 https://ept.ms/FreeTrialJan

“Basically they took almost the exact same drug as Kaletra, dressed it up, they put a box around it, and they're selling it for what? 5 billion?” In PART TWO of our interview with Dr. Richard Urso, co-founder of the International Alliance of Physicians and Medical Scientists, we discuss how big pharmaceutical companies can make billions by essentially repackaging existing products. We also discuss Dr. Urso’s work with other prominent doctors to create both a national telehealth system as well as an entirely new infrastructure of doctor-led medicine, where power is decentralized and less easily corrupted. “Once doctors became employees during this pandemic, it made them very reluctant to speak out,” Dr. Urso says. Dr. Urso is a drug design and treatment specialist, an ophthalmologist, and former chief of orbital oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center. 👉PREMIERE 6pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/10423RichardUrsoP2 🔴 Start Your Free Trial (Code: Jan) 👉 https://ept.ms/FreeTrialJan

"I'm speaking out because I have to. There is treatment & people do not have to die…If you get everybody early, we literally can save almost everybody.” Dr. Richard Urso on the suppression of treatments for COVID-19 during this pandemic and alarming post-booster trends he’s seen. Dr. Richard Urso is a co-founder of the International Alliance of Physicians and Medical Scientists, a drug design and treatment specialist, an ophthalmologist, and former chief of orbital oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center. 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/10421RichardUrso 🔴 Start Your Free Trial (Code: Jan) 👉 https://ept.ms/FreeTrialJan

“All of a sudden when the word COVID-19, coronavirus, came up, there was no treatment for inflammation, no treatment for respiratory compromise, no treatment for blood clotting. How is that possible? It's completely absurd.” During the COVID-19 pandemic, standard protocols for finding treatments were thrown out of the window, says Dr. Richard Urso, a co-founder of the International Alliance of Physicians and Medical Scientists, which organizes Global Covid Summit events. “There is a way to mitigate damage in every disease whether it’s COVID, whether it’s cancer… We look for the things that have the most evidence, the most biologic plausibility, and then we go from there,” says Dr. Urso. We discuss how science has been corrupted and we also take a look at many alarming trends he’s seen primarily in individuals who have received their third or fourth vaccine booster shot. 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/10421RichardUrso 🔴 Start Your Free Trial (Code: Jan) 👉 https://ept.ms/FreeTrialJan

"This is a Chinese contemporary version of Exodus from the bondage of communism." With over 300 million participants, there's an underground movement in China that could disintegrate the #CCP from within, says Dr. Sen Nieh. It’s called Tuidang. 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/10419SenNieh 🔴 Start Your Free Trial (Code: Jan) 👉 https://ept.ms/FreeTrialJan

“They want to control everything. They want to not only control resources, but they want to control the behavior of the people. They also want to control the mind, control people’s thoughts.” With reports of people starving in #Shanghai and viral videos of people screaming from balconies, what’s really going on in #China? Tonight, we take a look at the draconian #Lockdowns in China and a massive, underground movement that’s making Beijing extremely nervous. For the past two decades, millions of Chinese have been quietly renouncing their affiliation to China’s Communist Party and its affiliate organizations. The movement, called Tuidang, or Quitting the CCP, has recorded nearly 400 million such renunciations. To find out what’s going on, we sit down with Dr. Sen Nieh, the Vice President of the Global Service Center for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party. 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV https://ept.ms/10419SenNieh 🔴 Start Your Free Trial (Code: Jan) 👉 https://ept.ms/FreeTrialJan

"It was essentially evil what they did to the kids. I mean, even to this day, 50% of the kids in Los Angeles are truant…They don't come to school anymore." Investigative reporter Luke Rosiak, author of “Race to the Bottom: Uncovering the Secret Forces Destroying American Public Education” 🔴 WATCH FULL on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/10416LukeRosiak 🔴 Start Your Free Trial (Code: Jan) 👉 https://ept.ms/FreeTrialJan 📺CLIP 👆

"Almost every school district in the country is on record supporting equity. It means equal outcomes by race…That means forcing equal outcomes by either bringing the top performers down or by just rigging the stats." Investigative reporter Luke Rosiak, author of “Race to the Bottom: Uncovering the Secret Forces Destroying American Public Education” 👉 WATCH FULL on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/10416LukeRosiak 🔴 Start Your Free Trial (Code: Jan) 👉 https://ept.ms/FreeTrialJan 📺CLIP BELOW👇

“In pursuit of equity, they have stopped measuring things…They don't want a paper trail of how they're failing your kids." Deep-dive tonight with investigative reporter Luke Rosiak, author of "Race to the Bottom: Uncovering the Secret Forces Destroying American Public Education" As minority students fall behind, schools in America are abolishing standardized tests, A-B-C-D-F grading scales, and entrance exams. “They started orienting everything around the lowest common denominator. And the result is really devastating for society,” Rosiak says. 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/10416LukeRosiak 🔴 Start Your Free Trial (Code: Jan) 👉 https://ept.ms/FreeTrialJan