We speak about India's COVID "disaster", outline the grand COVID-19 narratives framing this "pandemic", and give our final verdicts on COVID-19 lethality, its effect on health care capacity, and lockdowns. Part 1 of 2.

Part 2 of 2: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-only-its-50787969

Some studies mentioned:

John Ioannidis meta-analysis showing a 0.15% IFR: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/eci.13554

March 19th cohort study on COVID lethality: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32201354/

Briand's working paper on USA death rates: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349925425_COVID-19_Deaths_A_Look_at_US_Data_FEB_2021_WORKING_PAPER_Genevieve_Briand 

Listen to the entire episode by subscribing to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/housing-and-50561293

We take a look at the housing bubbles ballooning across the world, investigate the contradictions which give rise to housing bubbles under capitalism and make some predictions of how the whole thing will come tumbling down.

Correction: Leila ~@2:00 says residential homes in Japan declined to less than a tenth of their peak -- this is not for *all* of Japan, only for Tokyo at the time of the crash.

In this episode we discuss the contradictions of the USSR, it's status as an economy and society at a transitional point between capitalism and socialism, it's contradictions and it's eventual fall.  

For our first piece of content for patrons, we are putting out an unaired portion of the first interview between co-hosts Alexander McKay and Leila Mechoui from back in January of this year.  We talk covid-19, unions, automation, the dumb state of the Left "intellectuals" and more. We also have recorded a new introduction to it where we reflect on what we were right about and how everyone must read Lenin.  We hope you enjoy the programme.

Full episode: https://www.patreon.com/red_star_radio

You can find Lenin's "Imperialism-The Highest Stage of Capitalism" on the link below:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/index.htm

In this episode we dive into the crazy world of of the (aboritve) European Super League and then spend the bulk of the episode examing who/what are the class known as the petit bourgeoisie?  And why do they ruin everything they touch?  

We analyze the reasons for the failure of the Amazon union drive in Alabama. We then discuss the significance of welfare under capitalism, and what's really behind the so-called Universal Basic Income (UBI).

We are joined by Dr. Elena Lange and Joshua Depaolis. Our interview covers COVID-19 (of course), the problem with modern Left politics, and possible ways forward out of this colossal mess.

Their article: https://crisiscritique.org/uploads/24-11-2020/elena-louisa-lange-and-joshua-pickett-depaolis.pdf 

Dr. Lange's upcoming book: https://brill.com/view/title/31889