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10 Mar 2026

Iran War: It’s All About China

“The US went to war in Iran because Iran made itself a Chinese weapon,” argues policy analyst Zineb Riboua, a research fellow at Hudson Institute’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East.

Riboua is the founder of the China in MENA Project, which tracks Chinese influence and expansion across the Middle East and Africa.

Is there a bigger dimension to the Iran war that people are missing?

“We have this tendency to just look at the countries involved, … but there’s a big player, and the big player here is China. … China has been investing immensely in the region in the last two decades, in courting, in coordinating, in cooperating with Gulf countries, with Iran itself, and also with its proxies,” she says.

She is interviewed here on American Thought Leaders.

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27 Feb 2026

Dark Side: Longevity Race

Jan Jekielek, Senior Editor at The Epoch Times and host of American Thought Leaders, joins the program to discuss his latest book Killed To Order — an investigative research into state-linked organ trafficking originating out of China.

Drawing from years of reporting, survivor testimony, and on-the-ground investigation, Jekielek documents evidence of industrial-scale organ harvesting and examines how centralized, unaccountable power structures make such practices possible.

We also explore the broader backdrop often left out of the conversation: the global longevity race. As elite institutions and state-backed initiatives pursue life extension and ambitions of dramatically increasing human lifespan, we examine how the drive to push biological limits can intersect with ethical collapse when power is centralized and human beings become utilitarian assets.

At the center of this discussion is what Jekielek calls the science of evil — how systemic harm emerges not from caricature villains, but through ideology, incentives, bureaucratic normalization, and personality profiles that thrive within highly centralized systems. What conditions allow ordinary actors to participate in extraordinary harm? Here’s more from Sarah Westall on her channel Business Game Changers.

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30 Dec 2025

Is Film Industry Self-Imploding?

“COVID was a really dark time for me and for a lot of people,” said Rob Schneider. For the famous comedian and actor, the years of the pandemic were a time to take stock of what had become of America, speak up about it—and even write a book.

You Can Do it! Speak Your Mind, America was published in September 2024. “If we’re going to continue to have a free society, it’s going to require people to step up and be courageous,” Schneider said.

Schneider, who is also a screenwriter and director, rose to prominence as a cast member and writer of NBC’s Saturday Night Live. He earned three Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his writing on the show.

In this episode, he reflected on our current political and cultural moment. What really happened when Rob bumped into Robert De Niro at the SNL reunion? What is the role of comedy in an age of outrage? And how do we turn around the tribalism he sees gripping America? Here’s more as Schneider appears on American Thought Leaders, from the Epoch Times.

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07 Jun 2021

China’s Texas Land Grab

A company with ties to the Chinese Communist Party is scarfing up land in south Texas at a rapid rate. Company CEO Sun Guangxin now owns more than 130,000 acres near the Texas-Mexico border and close to a sensitive Air Force military installation. Guangxin is a former general in China’s People’s Liberation Army and one of the largest landowners in Xinjiang Province.

The Texas land includes a large wind farm in an area where there is not much wind and an approximate 5,000-foot landing strip, which Guangxin expects to expand to 10,000 feet. Says Kyle Bass, founder and principal in Hayman Capital Management, “This is happening in the United States and this general is actually interfacing directly with the critical infrastructure of the United States.” Bass says Guangzin’s ulterior motive is to eventually plug into the U.S. electric grid. He added that Guangxin used a front man in Luftkin, Texas, to purchase the land.

Does the The Great Texas Blackout earlier this year ring a bell? This whole scheme spells bad news for the U.S. Here’s more with Bass on Epoch Times TV, courtesy of  the Wardo Rants channel.

 

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28 Dec 2020

Will American Republic Survive?

Here is an exclusive two-part interview with General Michal Flynn. In first part, we hear from Flynn about his experience these last four years. We discuss what attracted him to then-candidate Donald Trump, why he believes he was targeted, and his thoughts on America’s current political moment.

In the second part, Michael Flynn discusses whether the American Republic will survive. More from Jan Jekielek at American Thought Leaders from The Epoch Times.

 

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10 Jul 2019

Unmasking Antifa

The recent brutal assault on journalist Andy Ngo in Portland brings Antifa into the spotlight again. What is the longer term significance of this event, for Antifa, and America as a whole? The Epoch Times interviews Jack Posobiec on the origins of Antifa and exposure of its tactics, following the Antifa attack on journalist Andy Ngo in Portland, Oregon. More from American Thought Leaders, The Epoch Times.

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02 Jul 2019

Victim Mentality of the Left

What determines individual success in America? Do corporations like Google have too much power? What are the biggest issues facing black Americans today? Is systemic racism one of them? And how does emotional manipulation and victim mentality play into all of this?

I’m Jan Jekielek. Today we sit down again with Candace Owens, a conservative commentator and founder of the Blexit movement. She is the host of the Candace Owens Show with PragerU.

We discuss identity politics, suppression of conservative voices, and the mindset of victimhood among minorities, what Candace sees as a centerpiece of Democratic Party political strategy. More from American Thought Leaders, The Epoch Times.

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26 Apr 2019

Mueller Probe Will Backfire

In this episode of American Thought Leaders, we sit down with Hoover Institution and National Review Institute fellow, historian Dr. Victor Davis Hanson, who recently published the book The Case for Trump.

We discuss Dr. Hansen’s new book, and how his observations about the Mueller investigation and the related extraordinary efforts by various parties to remove the president from office have matured since the time of the book’s writing. We further explore President Trump’s unorthodox strategy to engage the American electorate.

We also discuss how President Trump’s approach to America can be seen as an attempt to solve a crisis of her spirit, and how both current events and historical precedent position the president for 2020. More from The Epoch Times.

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Liz Wheeler on OAN offers her own pithy truths about the Mueller Report.

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The Mueller Report is out, and AG Barr has spoken. The deep state witch hunt to topple President Trump has failed and now the REAL show can begin. Bob Kudla joins the SGTReport.

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