American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times

Filmmaker and somatic healer Chava Floryn recently went to Israel to document the resilience of its population in the face of crisis, tragedy, and trauma. She says that in a post-COVID world ripe with suffering, we can look to Israel as an example of how to heal and cultivate meaning.

Five years ago, John Eastman urged President Trump to challenge the legality of the 2020 elections. Today, he faces multiple legal cases and his license to practice law has been suspended. Here’s his story.

Is Elon Musk right about scrapping Voice of America? Kari Lake disagrees. Here’s what she told me:

A district court recently issued a temporary restraining order blocking Trump’s firing of the head of the Office of Special Counsel. Does the U.S. Constitution allow the President absolute power to remove executive branch officials? Mark Chenoweth explains:

The Nordic countries conducted a huge study with millions of people that recommended against the use of the COVID vaccine for most people under 50 years old, explains Dr. Gary Davidson. “There's just so much data out there.” "I was talking to a speech therapist in Alberta, and the increase in speech therapy consults when the masks rolled out were substantial, to say the least, because children learn from watching you, listening to you, and learning how to speak. They mimic us, and they lost that.” 🔴 PREMIERE 2/22, 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0222GaryDavidson

"When we looked at the numbers in 2020, when we didn't chase any ballots, Trump lost Pennsylvania by 80,000 votes. 120,000 Republicans had a ballot that was sitting on their table, nobody ever talked to them, and they didn't send it back, and they didn't vote." - Cliff Maloney, founder of the Pennsylvania Chase, explains why “ballot chasing” is critical to winning elections

"Peace through strength means that the diplomats won. It means we didn't have to fire a shot because we had tough diplomacy. You get that tough diplomacy when people are focused on representing the American ideals and have a president like Donald Trump.” - Presidential envoy for special missions Richard Grenell on diplomacy under Trump and successfully freeing six American hostages in Venezuela

Many world leaders in Latin America now feel that switching diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China was a bad deal, says Paraguay President Santiago Peña. Paraguay is one of only 12 countries in the world that recognize Taiwan, instead of communist China. “Many of the leadership thought that having a relation[ship] with China would open the market, the huge Chinese market. And the reality has been quite the opposite. [These countries] have opened their market to a manufacturing capacity, an industrial capacity that doesn’t comply with the same labor laws…that doesn’t respond to the same environmental standards…that don’t comply with the same anti-money-laundering regulations…So the rules are not even." 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0125SantiegoPena

"I think a lot of Americans are curious, who's on the Epstein list? What did the government know about the assassination of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King?" Rep. James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, says that a new task force will be aiming to declassify documents on UFOs, Epstein's client list, and JFK's assassination. In this wide-ranging interview at CPAC, we dive into DOGE revelations, the poultry industry crisis, and changes at the border.

"If you operate a business in China... if you're a medium-sized business and if you employ more than three Communist Party members, you must have a Communist Party cell. That is a national security threat to us. That's not the free market. We shouldn't be tolerating and we shouldn't be operating in that system. American companies should not be saying, 'Okay, fine. We'll just allow a Communist Party cell to exist within our company.'" - Andrew Hale 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0220AndrewHale

"[China is engaging in a] blurring of the lines between politics, government, and the private sector... ...We treat them as a market economy. They're a non-market economy." Andrew Hale is the Jay Van Andel Senior Policy Analyst in Trade Policy in Heritage Foundation's Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies. 🔴 PREMIERE 2/20, 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0220AndrewHale

"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