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  • From Deep Fakes to Impersonation Networks, Inside China’s Aggressive Campaigns to Manipulate You: Sarah Cook

    From Deep Fakes to Impersonation Networks, Inside China’s Aggressive Campaigns to Manipulate You: Sarah Cook

    · American Thought Leaders

    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 host and the guest and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

  • Why Government Statistics Are Not Matching Up With Economic Realities: EJ Antoni

    Why Government Statistics Are Not Matching Up With Economic Realities: EJ Antoni

    · American Thought Leaders

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    EJ 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 whole months of job creation and ripping them off the calendar,” says Antoni.

    Are the financial models no longer trustworthy?

    “We don’t see the numbers quite matching up to a lot of the government statistics,” says Antoni. “And we get into some very perverse situations where the [Bureau of Labor Statistics] actually counts something as an increase in quality when, in fact, it’s a decrease, and the consumer is paying more for it.”

    Antoni analyzes various indicators and inputs to determine what the real data reveals about the state of our economy.

    “Where I think this becomes scandalous is the fact that these statistical problems first became evident in the spring of 2022, so more than two years ago, and nothing has been done to correct them.”

    Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

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  • What the First Known Survivor of China’s Forced Organ Harvesting Reveals: David Matas

    What the First Known Survivor of China’s Forced Organ Harvesting Reveals: David Matas

    · American Thought Leaders

    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 recently publicly acknowledged doctors operated on Cheng without his consent—supposedly to save his life.

    So what is the significance of this case? And what’s next?

    In this episode, I sit down with international human rights lawyer David Matas, who was among the first to independently investigate allegations of forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China.

    I also speak to Robert Destro, who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor and was instrumental in getting Cheng to America; former Congressman Frank Wolf, a fierce champion of human rights in his three decades in Congress; and Nina Shea, director of the Center for Religious Freedom at Hudson Institute.

    Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guests, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

  • Inside the Fentanyl Supply Chain: Michael Brown

    Inside the Fentanyl Supply Chain: Michael Brown

    · American Thought Leaders

    “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 direct indication that they’re receiving more precursor chemicals from China,” said Brown.

    We dug deep into the fentanyl crisis and illicit drug trade in the United States and got an insider’s look into the narcotic supply chain, from China, to Mexico, to the southern U.S. border.

    “We’ve passed the point of no return in terms of reducing addiction in rate to what’s coming into the country in terms of narcotics—meaning, until we can reduce the supply chain, we’re not going to be able to reduce the addiction rate,” said Brown.

    But how best to reduce the supply chain? Is it merely a matter of sealing our border?

    “We know that 98% of all the narcotics coming into the United States are transported in vehicles—in commercial cargo that come across the United States. So, for me, the vulnerability for the cartels is that transportation cross-border network that they have,” said Brown.

    Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

  • How a Tiny Country Launched a Tech Revolution: George Gilder

    How a Tiny Country Launched a Tech Revolution: George Gilder

    · American Thought Leaders

    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, “The Israel Test: How Israel’s Genius Enriches and Challenges the World.”

    “You destroy Israel, the value of the world economy would drop by 50 percent,” says Gilder. “It’s knowledge that enables wealth. And knowledge comes from human minds created in the image of their Creator. And this is the great monotheistic vision that Jews have vouchsafed to the world and that is crucial to Western civilization.”

    From the first pogroms in ancient Egypt and up to the present day, what role has envy played in anti-Semitism?

    “I think the evil in men’s hearts is to tear down accomplishment, excellence, and genius. It’s really a perverse envy that we all have to labor to overcome. I mean, envy is natural to all of us, and it’s our Israel test. It cleaves the hearts of the world and it continues to challenge us,” says Gilder.

    Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

  • Is Social Security Reaching a Dead End?–Star Parker

    Is Social Security Reaching a Dead End?–Star Parker

    · American Thought Leaders

    “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 it’s not just social security. She argues that America’s welfare and safety net programs are all built on a one-size-fits-all model that fails to actually help the poor. Instead, they entrench generational poverty in certain communities, she argues.

    Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

  • Venezuela’s Flawed Elections and Latin America’s ‘Axis of Evil’: Eric Patterson

    Venezuela’s Flawed Elections and Latin America’s ‘Axis of Evil’: Eric Patterson

    · American Thought Leaders

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    “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 they are.”

    In this episode, I sit down with Eric Patterson, the president of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, to learn about their research on Venezuela and China.

    “You could go [to China] for such and such a price and get a new lung or a new liver or something on 24 hours notice. Now, what kind of organ industry can advertise that you can shop around, and on a very, very short notice to get a vitally needed organ?” asks Patterson.

    We also explore a key flaw in American foreign policy.

    “We misunderstood how to deal with the Taliban, we misunderstood how to deal with the Iraqis, and so many other places, when we didn’t take seriously the religious milieu in which they live, in which they make decisions,” says Patterson. “And this is also true of secular states like China ... There is a ruling ideology that’s been expressed by President Xi.”

    Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

  • China’s Step-by-Step Takeover of the South China Sea: Grant Newsham

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

    · American Thought Leaders

    “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 down the Chinese communist regime’s decades-long strategy to gain control of the South China Sea, from methodical island building to deploying a combination of Coast Guard, maritime militia, and fishing fleets to harass and intimidate other nations.

    Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

  • America’s Debt Is Growing Faster Than Its Economy. Is This Sustainable?—W. Bruce Lee

    America’s Debt Is Growing Faster Than Its Economy. Is This Sustainable?—W. Bruce Lee

    · American Thought Leaders

    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 argues the best way to rein in federal spending and reduce the $35 trillion national debt, is through a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.

    “At $35 trillion, we’re spending more on interest payments than we do on our national defense,” he said. “If you do not have economic stability, you do not have anything. The whole house of cards comes tumbling down.”

    Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

  • What the Media Is Leaving Out of Its Reporting on Crime: John Lott

    What the Media Is Leaving Out of Its Reporting on Crime: John Lott

    · American Thought Leaders

    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 between media reporting that violent crime is down and the public’s perception that crime is surging?

    “If you look at arrests for total crimes, reported and unreported, only 8 percent of violent crimes result in arrest,” says Lott.

    Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

  • Here’s What a Chinese EMP Attack on Taiwan Could Look Like: Greg Autry

    Here’s What a Chinese EMP Attack on Taiwan Could Look Like: Greg Autry

    · American Thought Leaders

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    Space 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 and a professor at Arizona State University. He’s also the co-author of “Red Moon Rising: How America Will Beat China on the Final Frontier.”

    “Space is the ultimate high ground,” but America is at risk of losing its superiority in space, the policy expert says.

    What would losing the second space race mean for America and its allies?

    Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

  • Elon Musk Has Been Sounding the Alarm on Birthrates. Is He Onto Something?–Catherine Pakaluk

    Elon Musk Has Been Sounding the Alarm on Birthrates. Is He Onto Something?–Catherine Pakaluk

    · American Thought Leaders

    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 Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth.”

    Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

  • Recession Frenzy Is Missing the Point: Jeffrey Tucker on Skewed Data and the Root Causes of Our Economic Woes

    Recession Frenzy Is Missing the Point: Jeffrey Tucker on Skewed Data and the Root Causes of Our Economic Woes

    · American Thought Leaders

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    The 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 industrial base and turning yourself into a whole country of indebted and stupid consumers. And you’re not making anything anymore. This is a crazy system,” said Tucker.

    In this episode, we dive into what’s really going on with the U.S. economy. Are we in a recession? Are prices and unemployment rising or falling? What about domestic goods and imports? And what is the data really saying?

    “You need to adjust this data by inflation, which is easy to say. But if you’re going to do that, you need an accurate reading of inflation. And if you don’t have that, you’re going to end up with inaccurate data,” said Tucker.

    He claims that many financial indicators we use to measure economic growth are inaccurate.

    “So now, we’ve got the highest rate of multiple job holders we’ve ever seen. Some people are holding two full-time jobs, which is extremely strange,” he said.

    Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

  • Deep Dive Into Venezuela’s Disputed Election and the Power Players Behind the Scenes: Joseph Humire

    Deep Dive Into Venezuela’s Disputed Election and the Power Players Behind the Scenes: Joseph Humire

    · American Thought Leaders

    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 is executive director of the Center for a Secure Free Society and visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

    He argues Nicolas Maduro has a hidden ace under his sleeve.

    Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

  • Karl Marx and the Mythology Surrounding His Rise: Phillip Magness

    Karl Marx and the Mythology Surrounding His Rise: Phillip Magness

    · American Thought Leaders

    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 contributions in Das Kapital. It’s not him engaging in major debates. It’s actually a political event,” Magness says.

    Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

  • How Free Societies Fall for Totalitarian Temptations: Ryszard Legutko

    How Free Societies Fall for Totalitarian Temptations: Ryszard Legutko

    · American Thought Leaders

    Ryszard Legutko fought for freedom in Poland as an underground editor in the anti-communist Solidarity movement. But after democracy was restored in Poland, he began seeing trends he didn’t expect in not just Poland, but many other liberal democracies as well.

    A professor, philosopher, and most recently a politician, Ryszard Legutko explains his findings in his book “The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies.”

    Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

  • The Libertarian View: Presidential Nominee Chase Oliver on China, the Border, and the Economy

    The Libertarian View: Presidential Nominee Chase Oliver on China, the Border, and the Economy

    · American Thought Leaders

    Chase Oliver is the Libertarian Party’s 2024 nominee for U.S. President. In this episode, we get his take on solving the border crisis, boosting the economy, and managing the threat of China and other adversaries.

    “Eventually, a lot of these countries do end up overthrowing their terrible, autocratic governments, and when they look for an example of what they want to go to, we need to be that shining beacon for them to look at. This is what free speech can give us: the most prosperous and powerful economy in the world, because ideas are allowed to spread,” says Mr. Oliver.

    “I fear what happens if we stop being the best and most free and prosperous nation in the world, because that’s what will allow China to truly ascend, is if we step away from our principles and our values. If we hold true to those, there’s nothing China can do to stop us because we’re going to be a more powerful economy, a more powerful military, and a more powerful cultural force around the world.”

    Mr. Oliver proposes what he calls a “21st century Ellis Island” in order to streamline the process of migration into the United States.

    “99 percent of people just want to come here and work, get a job, make some money, and possibly take that money back home with them to their family during the offseason if they’re in agriculture. We need to facilitate that through a 21st-century Ellis Island that basically says, if you’re coming here, come through a port of entry. Submit yourself to a background check and health check to make sure you’re all good to go if you are coming, and get to work. When we do that, we streamline the process of getting those peaceful workers right through the port of entry. And we can really laser focus our law enforcement on those who are trafficking human beings for the purposes of labor or sexual exploitation, or for those who bring fentanyl, in order to basically sell it as Xanax,” explains Mr. Oliver.

    Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

  • How Impoverished Nations Become Prosperous: Dr. Rainer Zitelmann

    How Impoverished Nations Become Prosperous: Dr. Rainer Zitelmann

    · American Thought Leaders

    Dr. Rainer Zitelmann is a German historian, sociologist, and the author of several books including, most recently, “How Nations Escape Poverty: Vietnam, Poland, and the Origins of Prosperity.”

    Why do certain countries that previously suffered under totalitarian regimes emerge stronger, economically, than others? What factors contribute to a nation’s financial success? And what holds it back?

    Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

  • Honoring Those on the Front Lines: Singer Five for Fighting on Writing Music With Morals

    Honoring Those on the Front Lines: Singer Five for Fighting on Writing Music With Morals

    · American Thought Leaders

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    John Ondrasik, also known by his stage name, Five for Fighting, is a Grammy-nominated recording artist who released several number-one hits in the early 2000s, including his single, “Superman,” which became widely known as a 9/11 anthem.

    “You know, silent majorities become silent minorities if nobody speaks up,“ he says. ”For me, making a record was really how you made a statement.”

    Mr. Ondrasik is back in the spotlight for his songs about the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack against Israel.

    “Many in the music business, particularly with Israel, have historically shamed our industry for all time because they’re afraid to speak out with common sense, moral clarity,” Mr. Ondrasik says. “One thing that I think folks don’t realize, especially on the right, is how critical the arts are to changing culture.”

    We dive into his songwriting and look at how his music took him to war-torn Ukraine and Israel. We also get an exclusive, unplugged performance of two of Mr. Ondrasik’s hit singles.

    Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

  • Inside China’s Largest Civil Disobedience Movement, and Why You Haven’t Heard of It: Larry Liu

    Inside China’s Largest Civil Disobedience Movement, and Why You Haven’t Heard of It: Larry Liu

    · American Thought Leaders

    In China, a grassroots, underground movement of Chinese has been cutting through the communist regime’s censorship and propaganda machines—one pamphlet at a time.

    Since the Chinese communist regime launched a nationwide persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual discipline 25 years ago, Falun Gong’s millions of adherents in China started creating secret underground print shops to expose the regime’s human rights atrocities.

    All across China, they secretly distribute flyers, DVDs, and brochures en masse, hang posters in public areas in the dead of night, and circulate software to their fellow Chinese so they can circumvent China’s internet blockade. Those arrested face years in prison—as long as 15 years.

    So who are these people? And why is their story critical to understanding China today?

    In this episode, I sit down with Larry Liu, deputy director of the Falun Dafa Information Center.

    Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

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