2024-03-08: News Headlines

Martin Hacthoun (2024-03-08). Cuba investigates fr deputy prime minister and minister of Economy. plenglish.com Havana, Mar 7 (Prensa Latina) The First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, told the nation today about mistakes made by former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Planning, Alejandro Gil, in the performance of his duties.

Angelina de los Santos (2024-03-08). Argentines Take Feminist Strike to the Streets on International Women's Day. truthout.org Argentinian women from all walks of life will take to the streets nationwide on 8 March, International Women's Day, as part of a feminist strike calling for an end to the country's growing poverty, which already affects 57% of the population of 46 million. The protesters' "most important demand" is a solution to Argentina's "food emergency", said María Claudia Albornoz, an activist from La… |

Isaac Nellist (2024-03-08). Albanese talks big on equality, leaves women trapped in poverty. greenleft.org.au Anthony Albanese's refusal to tackle structural disadvantage reveals his 'commitment to gender equality' is a farce, argues Isaac Nellist.

Taya Graham, Stephen Janis, Jayne Miller, The Real News Network. (2024-03-08). Why Did Baltimore Lavish Tens Of Millions In Tax Breaks? popularresistance.org Baltimore is often maligned as a shrinking city beset by crime and intractable poverty. But take a walk down President Street just south of Little Italy on a Friday night, and you will enter a world that appears far removed from the idea of a city that is terminally in decay. | Past the empty pavilions of the Inner Harbor and east of the city's increasingly troubled downtown business district, a cluster of towering high-rises emerges from the harbor like a defiant mountain range of concrete. | A cobblestone boulevard leads to a European-style thoroughfare dotted with a dazzling array of upscale restaurants and ou…

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