American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times

"No president since 1913 has taken on the Fed the way Trump has taken it on now. …The Federal Reserve is the most powerful institution, arguably, in the world.” “Trump is taking on the great question…[what] is the status of the Federal Reserve under the law?” In this episode, Jeffrey Tucker unpacks President Donald Trump’s growing dispute with the Federal Reserve and his efforts to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook for alleged mortgage fraud. 🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV: https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/jeffrey-tucker-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-fed-5911359?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=AmericanThoughtLeaders&utm_term=JeffreyTucker

Dr. Robert Malone reveals what he thinks happened behind the scenes at the CDC: “It appears that the Secretary asked the director of CDC to terminate some of these senior, long-term staff that were insisting on basically controlling the agenda for the upcoming ACIP COVID subcommittee work group and what they would be allowed to consider as they would investigate and make recommendations to the Director of the CDC concerning the three COVID vaccine products.” Dr. Robert Malone is currently serving as one of the members of ACIP. https://rumble.com/v6yia7u-dr.-robert-malone-reveals-what-he-thinks-happened-behind-the-scenes-at-the-.html

"It is a huge event that President Trump…raised these questions that he really avoided asking in the past,” says Dr. Robert Malone. On Labor Day, Trump publicly challenged pharmaceutical companies to “justify success” of the COVID-19 products. Does this mark a turning point in Trump’s stance on the COVID-19 vaccines and the success of Operation Warpspeed? 🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/4g8ojrl

In Canada, there’s a growing push to expand euthanasia eligibility to “mature” children who have the “capacity to consent”: “The head of the Quebec College of Physicians and Surgeons testified before Parliament that he thinks it's important that [euthanasia] may be considered for children with severe deformities and abnormalities, as he put it. And the leading euthanasia lobby in Canada has suggested it may be expanded to those ‘mature minors’ who they think have the capacity to consent…” - Amanda Achtman, founder of the Dying to Meet You Project 🔴 WATCH FULL:https://ept.ms/41xyZK3

Euthanasia now accounts for 1 in 20 deaths in Canada. And the number one kind of suffering that leads people to request it? A loss of ability to engage in meaningful life activities. "This really marks an existential crisis, a crisis of meaning,” says Amanda Achtman, founder of the Dying to Meet You project. 🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/41xyZK3

“I have heard from persons with disabilities who say: ‘[Euthanasia] is the first thing the government has told me I'm eligible for.’ To be told that you qualify for a premature death is already killing the person. It…deflates & defeats your sense of worth. That’s the impact that euthanasia is having on Canadians," says Amanda Achtman. In Canada, patients don't need to be terminally ill to request euthanasia and there are ongoing debates about whether even minors or the mentally ill should be eligible. Euthanasia now accounts for 1 in 20 deaths in Canada. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/41xyZK3

“Music is a very powerful weapon for good & bad. …It's able to bypass the physical and get right into the soul of someone. When that's used at the behest of wickedness & wicked people, it goes into their soul like that. When it's used as a good thing—or God's message—it does the exact same thing.” Country star John Rich shares the inspiration and creative process behind his hit song “Revelation." 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/3HYnHYt

Country star John Rich explains the story behind his new song, “The Devil and the TVA.” “An 88-year-old woman named Mrs. Nicholson who suffers from dementia…The [Tennessee Valley Authority representatives] pulled up on her farm. That land has been in her family over a century. …They pull up on her property, 12 vehicles deep. People get out of the cars, bulletproof vests, loaded weapons. I mean, it looks like a drug raid, and this lady is going: Who are all these people? …The neighbor ran out the door…They pulled out an iPhone. ‘They're wanting to build this on your farm,’ And they show her a picture of a plant and transmission lines. And for about 10 seconds, that old woman snapped out of her dementia and looked right into the camera that the neighbor had there and said: ‘You think you own something. You don't own nothing.’" https://rumble.com/v6ya38q-how-a-defiant-88-year-old-woman-inspired-john-richs-latest-song.html

When an 88‑year‑old woman confronted representatives of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) when they came to survey her land for a methane gas plant project, she left a lasting impression on country artist John Rich. Her words—“you think you own something, you don’t own nothing”—inspired his new song, “The Devil and the TVA.” On American Thought Leaders, John Rich reveals some of the key moments that shaped both his music and his activism. From family sing-alongs in Texas to topping the charts with Lonestar and Big & Rich, he opens up about walking away from major labels to protect his creative freedom. Join us for a deep conversation about faith, music, and standing firm on your principles. 🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/3HYnHYt

This is what a lot of people get wrong about nationalism, says Yoram Hazony: "Nationalism and imperialism are actually opposite things. Nationalism is a theory of political order. It's a theory that says that the world is governed best when there are many independent nations, when different peoples can make their own decisions. They'll have their own constitutional traditions and religious traditions, their own language and their own legal systems. And they'll do things their way, and they'll try to improve their lives according to their lights. That's nationalism, and this is very much, I think, the world view of the Trump administration - that there can be many different countries and America can wish them all well, so long as they're not a threat to the United States. And they can be allowed to proceed the way that they want to proceed, in dealing with their own politics on the basis of their own traditions. By the way, that was George Washington's policy. That was the founding foreign policy of the United States." The term “nationalism” was co-opted by Hitler and vilified as a result, says Yoram Hazony. But that is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of what nationalism actually means, he argues. He recently released a revised edition of his 2018 seminal work, “The Virtue of Nationalism.” https://rumble.com/v6y772c-why-true-nationalism-rejects-empire-building-yoram-hazony.html

A new isolationist streak is gaining ground in America—including on the right. But history shows: retreat and pacifism empowers tyrants. That’s what fueled the rise of the Soviets, Iran, and communist China, argues Yoram Hazony, author of “The Virtue of Nationalism,” Trump is breaking the old isolation vs. intervention trap. He’s carving a third path, Hazony argues. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/4oYLvfC

Chenggang Xu explains to me the reality of Chinese communist control: "The simplest way to understand the nature of the Chinese Communist Party is to look at the relationship between the party and the armed forces, and the relationship between the party and the courts, and the relationship between the party and the law-making. …All the armed forces are completely controlled by the party, all the courts are completely controlled by the party, and all the law-making agencies are completely controlled by the party." 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/3HSszOQ

Chenggang Xu became a target of the Red Guard in China and was imprisoned by the CCP. He shares with me his experience: "Because of my research on the classes in the socialist system, I became a 'counter-revolutionary,' and I was under arrest. After more than a year of imprisonment, the punishment was changed to hard labor under monitoring until the end of the Cultural Revolution. That experience helped me a lot in understanding the nature of totalitarianism." https://rumble.com/v6y469e-how-i-became-a-target-of-chinas-red-guard-chenggang-xu.html

"Actually, the Cold War has not ended. When people thought that there was a final victory of the Cold War–or even that it was the end of history–that was a misunderstanding, because the Chinese communists are still there. And now, it is the continuation, just in a different format." Political economist Chenggang Xu is a senior research scholar at the Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions and author of “Institutional Genes.” 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/3HSszOQ

“What sets aside the 2016 election and everything else that followed from it is that for the first time in our history, the intelligence apparatus of America and the law enforcement apparatus of America participated in a political dirty trick. They enabled it. They legitimized it…And all of the key leaders of the country [were] aware before it started. …If this becomes the norm in America, we go from the greatest constitutional republic in America—the envy of the world for freedom—to another banana republic that looks like the Latin American dictators of the 1960s. …We've exposed it, but we haven't stopped the temptation to do it again.” - Investigative journalist John Solomon 🔴 WATCH FULL:https://ept.ms/4mBalke

Journalist John Solomon reveals the pivotal 2017 moment that set him on the trail of what many now call Russiagate. He’d just gone on Fox with a story about the surge in “unmaskings”—where US citizens’ private communications were exposed without warrants. Late that night, he pulled into his driveway. A blue sedan sat waiting. Two men stepped out. "'We can't tell you who we are, but you're at the tip of a very large iceberg. …We work in the intelligence community and our agencies were asked to participate in one of the greatest political dirty tricks in history. And if it isn't stopped—and one day, when it is uncovered—we will lose the tools that keep you and I safe at night.’ https://rumble.com/v6xzc96-john-solomon-recounts-secret-meeting-that-sparked-his-russiagate-investigat.html

"Nine years of weaponization, nine years of mistruths, have left an indelible consequence," says investigative journalist John Solomon. “We've exposed it, but we haven't stopped the temptation to do it again." 🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/4mBalke

🚨Here's how Trump's "special ambassadors" to Hollywood could really shake up the movie industry, says actor and filmmaker Nick Searcy. "With that kind of star power…they could pull together a studio, because that's what's needed. That's why Netflix and Amazon are able to turn out so many films. They have pooled their resources so that they're making the kinds of films that support what they believe in. We don't do that. Conservatives are afraid of investing in films, because basically, it's a bad investment. Chances are you're going to lose your money. So what we have to do—if we really want to compete—is create a system where we're able to make ten films, and maybe one of them makes enough money to float the other nine. That's what they do." Searcy played James Baker in the Reagan biopic last year and is perhaps best known for his role as Art Mullen in the crime drama “Justified.” He’s the author of, “Justify This: A Career Without Compromise.” 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/3HxEB03

"Hollywood spent probably the last 15 or 20 years basically telling half of its audience that they don't want them to watch, that they hate them, that they're deplorables. 'If you don't support Obama, if you're not for…these different rights groups, if you're not part of that, then we're going to demonize you, and we're going to make programming that makes fun of you, that ridicules you. …They've driven half the audience away. And so when you have a film that does appeal to that audience, people turn out. People go to the theater. Or when you have a film that just doesn't attack that audience, like Top Gun: Maverick, something like that, they turn out…And so that's what I mean by there's an opportunity there." Nick Searcy is a director, actor, and author of "Justify This" https://rumble.com/v6xwbfi-nick-searcy-how-hollywood-drove-away-half-its-audience.html

“They have quotas in terms of the racial makeup of a movie…I heard that ‘Reagan’ was not eligible to be considered for the Oscars because the cast was too white,” says actor and filmmaker Nick Searcy. “What are you going to do? Non-traditional casting about a slice of history? It doesn't make any sense…That's why Hollywood is falling apart.” 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/how-hollywood-alienated-middle-america-and-whats-next-nick-searcy-5904025?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=AmericanThoughtLeaders&utm_term=NickSearcy