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American Thought Leaders

The Epoch Times

At a time when our nation is portrayed as increasingly polarized, media often ignore viewpoints and stories that are worthy of attention. American Thought Leaders, hosted by The Epoch Times Senior Editor Jan Jekielek, features in-depth discussions with some of America’s most influential thought leaders on pertinent issues facing our nation today.

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51:49

Sharyl Attkisson: My Investigations of Medical...

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2024/09/30

Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2Sharyl Attkisson is an investigative journalist and the Emmy Award-winning host of “Full Measure.” She is also the author of several books, including, most recently, “Follow The Science: How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures, and Prevails.”“Why am I as a non-medical reporter unearthing stories that this whole industry of medical and science reporters are not unearthing?”

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47:20

How Marxism Exploits Crises and Division: Mike...

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2024/09/26

What is the connection between the anti-Israel protests we are seeing today and the 2014 unrest in Ferguson, Missouri? Is there a link to the French and Bolshevik revolutions?“The reason they tell you there’s systemic racism is because if you believe that, then the only logical conclusion is you must have a completely systemic overhaul,” says Mike Gonzalez, senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation. “It’s not about improving the lot of anyone. It’s about power.”And what do these have to do with the

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01:10:17

The Real Battleground With China Is Ideological—And...

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2024/09/23

John Lenczowski is the founder, chancellor, and president emeritus of The Institute of World Politics, a District of Columbia-based graduate school that specializes in the instruments of statecraft and national security. He was the principal Soviet affairs advisor to President Ronald Reagan.What are the Chinese Communist Party’s primary tools of strategic deception? And why don’t more people know about them?“The Chinese have 600 front organizations operating in the United States today trying to

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34:16

Reclaiming the Middle Ground: Jill Long Thompson’s...

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2024/09/20

“We need more members of Congress who recognize that there’s value on both sides,” says Jill Long Thompson, a former U.S. congresswoman from Indiana who served in the 1990s. As a Democrat, she represented a heavily Republican district as a fiscal conservative.She says that today, polarization and gerrymandering—the redrawing of district lines for partisan benefit—have made people like her few and far between in Congress.“We are electing people who are either further to the right or further to the

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01:06:08

Dr. Marty Makary: When Medical Consensus Fails—From...

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2024/09/19

Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2Dr. Marty Makary is a surgeon, professor at Johns Hopkins University, and author of “Blind Spots: What Medicine Gets Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health.”“We’ve got to recognize now the best practices are exactly opposite of what the medical establishment pounded into pediatricians for 15 years,” he says.In this episode, we explore the culture of medical groupthink

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59:21

From Deep Fakes to Impersonation Networks, Inside...

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2024/09/15

From fake online personas to manipulated audio and deep fakes to artificial amplification networks, the Chinese Communist Party is becoming more creative about how they manipulate Americans, Canadians, Taiwanese, and other targets online.Independent China researcher Sarah Cook has been studying the Chinese regime’s online campaigns for years. She says there are five key tactics the regime uses to influence our media and the global information space.Views expressed in this video are opinions of the

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57:36

Why Government Statistics Are Not Matching Up With...

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2024/09/14

Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2EJ Antoni is an economist and fellow at the Heritage Foundation, whose research focuses on fiscal and monetary policy. In this episode, we break down the discrepancies between government data, media reporting, and today’s economic realities.“Essentially, a third of all the jobs we thought we had added over that year are gone. They never existed. It’s like taking four

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33:03

What the First Known Survivor of China’s Forced Organ...

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2024/09/09

The first known survivor of China’s state-run forced organ harvesting regime recently went public with his story in Washington.Peiming Cheng, who was imprisoned for 8 years and brutally tortured for practicing Falun Gong, was also forced to undergo surgery in November 2004. He woke up with a foot-long scar across his side.Subsequent comprehensive medical examinations revealed he was missing a large part of his liver and a portion of his left lung.And in a stunning admission, the Chinese regime has

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23:36

Inside the Fentanyl Supply Chain: Michael Brown

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2024/09/06

“Currently, there is a surplus of fentanyl pills in America. The surplus, I believe, is driving increased addiction rates, because now fentanyl pill prices are going down. Drug usage is going up. Addiction rates are going up.”In this episode, I sat down with Michael Brown, a former DEA special agent and the current director of Counter-Narcotics Technology for Rigaku Analytical Devices.The cartels are now mass producing or have the capacity to mass produce multi-ton quantities of fentanyl, which is a

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28:33

How a Tiny Country Launched a Tech Revolution: George...

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2024/09/02

We’ve heard a lot about how Israel is a beneficiary and dependent on the United States. But is that really the case?“Our economy is heavily dependent on Israel. And there’s this illusion that really irritates me—that somehow Israel is a dependent of the U.S., or some kind of abusive child or something. But Israel really gives us far more than they take,” argues George Gilder.He is an investor, economist, and best-selling author of 23 books, including the post-Oct. 7 updated edition of his 2009 book,

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23:01

Is Social Security Reaching a Dead End?–Star Parker

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2024/08/30

“When [social security] was first established, you had 40 workers for every retiree. Today, we have three workers for every retiree. You also have people living longer, and you have all people forced into this system that they don’t own … and they can’t transfer it to their heirs,” says Star Parker. She is the founder and president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) and editor of the book “The State of Black Progress.”America’s social security system is broken, Parker says. And

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45:53

Venezuela’s Flawed Elections and Latin America’s...

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2024/08/27

Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2“The promises of the American experiment and liberty are still what people want, and they are most in tune with what does it mean to be an authentic human being. Communism, on the other hand—it only works by force. It keeps its own people locked away in countries that are essentially gulags. It doesn’t value the human person—the fundamental dignity of men and women as

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22:09

China’s Step-by-Step Takeover of the South China Sea:...

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2024/08/21

“What you’re seeing in the Philippines is one more step in China’s effort to tighten its control over all parts of the South China Sea,” says retired U.S. Marine Col. Grant Newsham, an expert on the Asia-Pacific region and a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy.In recent clashes near the submerged reef known as the Second Thomas Shoal, there have been cases of Chinese vessels ramming Philippine ships, deploying water cannons, and injuring several sailors.In this episode, Newsham breaks

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23:29

America’s Debt Is Growing Faster Than Its Economy. Is...

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2024/08/21

W. Bruce Lee is the executive director of the Phoenix Correspondence Commission, the first nationwide convention of states since 1861. It’s a little known government body owned by all 50 states organized to provide another check on the federal government.“After 40-some odd years of no progress in Congress, the states are being looked at as the solution now. And the states do need to buck up,” said Lee. “If Congress is unwilling to control itself, then there needs to be some external enforcer.”He

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35:26

What the Media Is Leaving Out of Its Reporting on...

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2024/08/17

In this episode, I sit down with John Lott, founder and president of The Crime Prevention Research Center, to discuss his extensive research into national crime rates, arrest rates, as well as gun permit laws and how they impact crime.“In 2022, the last year that we have the National Crime Victimization data for, while the FBI showed a 2 percent drop in violent crime, the National Crime Victimization data showed a 42 percent increase in total violent crime,” says Lott.Why is there such a disconnect

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56:23

Here’s What a Chinese EMP Attack on Taiwan Could Look...

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2024/08/15

Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2Space policy expert Greg Autry believes the Chinese communist regime may be looking at targeting Taiwan with an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapon attack. What would such an attack look like, and why might an EMP be the weapon of choice for the Chinese regime?Autry is the director of space leadership, policy, and business at the Thunderbird School of Global Management

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53:48

Elon Musk Has Been Sounding the Alarm on Birthrates....

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2024/08/15

Why are people in developed economies having fewer and fewer children? Is it really because raising children is too expensive? Or are there other factors at play? How will declining population rates affect Western economies and societies?And why are some families bucking this trend, and having five, six, seven, or even eight children? How does having children affect a woman’s long-term happiness?In this episode, we sit down with social scientist and researcher Catherine Pakaluk, author of “Hannah’s

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01:18:38

Recession Frenzy Is Missing the Point: Jeffrey Tucker...

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2024/08/12

Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2The end of the U.S. dollar gold standard in 1971 had unexpected, far-reaching consequences for the United States and its adversaries, ones that are central to today’s economic and geopolitical realities. What happened?Jeffrey Tucker is the senior economics columnist at The Epoch Times and the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute.“You’re gutting your entire

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01:07:09

Deep Dive Into Venezuela’s Disputed Election and the...

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2024/08/10

To understand Venezuela’s disputed election and the bigger picture of what’s really going on in the region—including how China, Russia, and Iran are involved—leading security expert Joseph Humire gives a comprehensive deep dive.“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,” Humire says.Humire

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55:24

Karl Marx and the Mythology Surrounding His Rise:...

American Thought Leaders ·

2024/08/08

Karl Marx died in obscurity in 1883, with only about a dozen people attending his funeral. Even socialist magazines took little notice of him at the time, says Phillip Magness, an economic historian and senior fellow at the Independent Institute. So how is it that he became such a major figure decades later?Magness decided to find out. In this episode, he breaks down his research into the origins of the popularity of Karl Marx.“What really put Marx on the intellectual map was not the weight of his

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