U.S. federal investigators recently discovered a sophisticated tunnel 55 feet underground between Mexico and California—among the largest ever found—with electricity, a rail system, ventilation, reinforced walls, and a complex hydraulic lift system.
White House “drug czar” Sara Carter estimated that it was used to transport narcotics worth hundreds of millions of dollars. This is just one of the over 200 tunnels of varying sizes and sophistication that have been discovered in the last four decades, with many more likely still undetected, she said.
As Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), Carter is fighting to end the narcotic epidemic killing Americans, seize cartel finances, and make a drug-free life the new norm in America.
Deaths from illicit narcotics in America have been rising for decades and reached an all-time high in 2022, with 112,000 Americans dying in a single year. Since the Trump administration took office, that number has dropped to about 68,000 for the 12-month period ending in November 2025. But Americans of all ages are still dying.
In this episode, Carter breaks down the complex pipelines that are driving this epidemic and how the Trump administration has been going on the offensive to attack both the supply and demand sides of this crisis. Carter explains in a new edition of American Thought Leaders, presented by The Epoch Times.
Mike Benz, founder of the Foundation for Freedom Online, sits down with Tucker Carlson to explain how USAID, the U.S. Agency for International Development, became a deep web — more like a hornet’s nest — pushing every facet of the leftwing agenda. Not only did this agency back transgenderism, but also online censorship, Black Lives Matter riots, unfettered immigration, George Soros’ leftist prosecutors and a global narcotics ring.
Obviously, the U.S. Constitution stands in way of a federal agency being so blatantly biased and political. So USAID adopted an ingenious workaround. The agency didn’t do the dirty work itself, but gave grants to thousands upon thousands of NGOs, or Non-Governmental Organizations, to take actions that USAID couldn’t legally do itself.
These workaround arrangements skirted the law, while grossly violating our nation’s principles and heritage. Here, in a two-hour conversation with Carlson, Benz relays some of the most egregious examples of what happened, drawing from his background as a State Department official.
One of the most dispiriting examples he cites: How the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) became the NGO used to push widespread online censorship. The ADL was founded to combat anti-Semitism, a worthy cause. But now this organization has morphed into something truly ugly and insidious — tearing down our Bill of Rights. Not acceptable in any shape or form!
Another NGO that actively censored individuals and news outlets: the Internews Network. Headed by Jeanne Bourgault, who was paid $500,000 annually, the Internews Network received $472.6 million from USAID to train foreign journalists and to police what it called “disinformation” at home.
What’s disinformation? That’s the codeword used by leftists to describe anything that’s conservative or moderate, anything that the leftists want to censor. In short, our tax money was being used to squelch our own freedom. Internews pushed Covid-19 propaganda, as well as pro-Ukraine and the usual climate change nonsense.
How did Bourgault score such a lucrative position? She paved the way for her own lucrative gig by working six years at USAID, before joining Internews Network in 2001. She is among the individuals profiled on the World Economic Forum (WEF) website. There, she advocates open borders and has worked cooperatively with George Soros’ Open Society Foundation.
Here she is at a World Economic Forum, preaching her “disinformation” rap. What a globalist shill!
Jamie Dlux relates the circumstances surrounding the suicide death of his doctor, Benjamin Moore, one of the doctors behind an infamous “pill mill” in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. OxyContin was the primary narcotic prescribed by the doctors at the clinic run by David Michael Woodward.
Here, Dlux talks about his visits to Woodward’s clinic and how he began abusing the pain killers Woodward’s associates loosely prescribed. Law enforcement took quite some time to catch on to the racket, but ultimately closed the net on the narcotics abuse, nabbing one of the delinquent doctors at a Maori village in New Zealand!
Erik Prince is an entrepreneur, former Navy SEAL and founder of Blackwater Worldwide, a private military corporation. His latest project is Unplugged, a phone, messaging application and VPN that is privacy focused and won’t collect or share customer data. Here, he speaks with Tucker Carlson.
