As fascist forces continue to dominate the US, there are more questions than ever as to whether this upcoming election will be legit and how many millions will be purged from the rolls. Investigative journalist Greg Palast and Lee discuss the impact that voter suppression will have on the 2020 presidential election.

Naomi Karavani reports on a new source of economic instability being created by online lenders. Natalie McGill goes back to Cold War history to remember the time the CIA spent millions of dollars on a short-lived cat filled with surveillance equipment.

Jobless claims in the United States have fallen to their lowest point since the beginning of the Covid-19 closures. Meanwhile, as Congress debates the next steps for a Covid-19 relief package, the Congressional Budget Office is projecting that the country’s deficit will triple in 2020. Plus, volatility has surged over the last few months, causing safe-haven assets to jump. And the US dollar has started to rebound from a multi-year support level as the prices of both bitcoin and gold have dropped off.

The Joe Biden campaign is pushing ahead with a major swing-state ad blitz addressing the rioting that's gripped many US cities head-on and blaming President Trump for the violence, casting the Democratic nominee as a calming force who will "lower the temperature" of the national discourse.

The United Kingdom, the country which pioneered public health legislation in the Victorian era, has struggled to test and trace in its efforts to tackle the challenge of coronavirus. Alex turns to Dr Bharat Pankhania of Exeter Medical School. With 20 years of expertise in infectious disease control, he details the problems of centralization and under-resourcing which have hampered the fight against the virus – particularly in England. Alex then speaks to Dr Christiansen and Kristina Hafoss MP, who explain how the tiny Faroe Islands have conquered Covid-19 – not once, but twice – through local knowledge and rapid response.

Max and Stacy look at a recent opinion pushed on National Public Radio calling for the looting of small businesses as a way to exact economic justice. They look at the moral code that has trickled down from central banks and private equity who plunder through inflation and equity extraction, respectively. They imagine the Fed minutes we will get to read only 50 years from now in which we will see that they were doubling down on a policy they knew could not succeed. In the second half, Max chats to Willem Middelkoop, author of the ‘The Big Reset’, about how his now five-year-old book called it right in terms of the declining USD-backed global fiat system and the rise of gold.

Although the pandemic is far from over, ongoing protests in Kenosha and Portland appear to have taken political center-stage, as both Trump and Biden are scrambling to respond to recent violent clashes.In an apparent flagrant violation of privacy, police surveillance equipment was found outside the home of a union leader and activist in Tennessee. With both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions come and gone, what impact have these glorified pep rallies had on voters nationwide?

Australia is feeling the strain of the Covid-19 pandemic as it enters its first recession in 30 years. And it appears Japan, India, and Australia are launching an initiative to reduce reliance on China as part of the supply chain. Plus, amid the new normal of home delivery in the times of Covid-19, Amazon has won approval to blaze a new trail in the sector. The company has won FAA approval to deliver packages by drone.

Jim Gaffigan put himself to work to create his latest comedy special "The Pale Tourist." Currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video, each episode features a different country he has visited and what he has learned or observed about their specific culture, all in fun of course. Plus, Gaffigan talks about why he prefers to perform stand-up in countries where less people speak English!

Charisse Lane is a young black conservative hearing it from all sides about her decision to support Donald Trump but is the fight there or with the culture?

The reason why the right loses these debates is that leftists are willing to do absolutely anything to win your arguments. Saul Alinsky's tactics prescribe such things as the Cancel Culture (in so many words). Leftists don't care about truth or decency and use false fronts to hide their true objectives. If you win in the end you can enjoy your communist state and lose all of your freedoms. Hopefully, I won't be around for that!

Fast food giant McDonald’s is back in the hot seat as the firm faces claims of racial discrimination. Dozens of former franchisees say the company set them up for failure by steering them toward inner-city neighborhoods, where sales are typically lower. Meanwhile, concerns abound in the European Union as inflation has gone negative for the first time in years amid the Covid-19 outbreak. While Germany looks at a V-shaped recovery, Greece and Turkey have opened a new front for concern as tensions are high in the Mediterranean over oil exploration.