2024-03-08: News Headlines

Lucy McCann (2024-03-08). Law Pod UK New Episode. ukhumanrightsblog.com Law Pod UK is marking International Womens' Day 2024 with a three-part series exploring gender at the Bar. In this series Lucy McCann and Rajkiran Barhey speak to Lady Justice Whipple, Sally Smith KC, Clodagh Bradley KC, Cara Guthrie, Judith Rogerson, Isabel McArdle, Emma-Louise Fenelon and Chloe Turvill about their experiences in the hope of …

Liberation Staff (2024-03-08). PSL Editorial — Celebrate International Women's Day by fighting the empire! liberationnews.org This IWD, let's deepen our commitment to fighting against the colonialism and war that is inherent under this rotten system.

Staff (2024-03-08). Israeli Genocide in Gaza: Pre planned and well coordinated. muslimmirror.com By Latheef Farook Israel and its United States -European partners knew about Hamas' attack on October 7, but allowed it to use as a pretext to commit genocide and ethnic cleanse Palestinians , annex Gaza with Israel to settle Jews to create "Greater Israel". According to reports emerging from several sources Egypt,Saudi and the United …

Staff (2024-03-08). Israeli Genocide in Gaza: Pre planned and well coordinated. muslimmirror.com By Latheef Farook Israel and its United States -European partners knew about Hamas' attack on October 7, but allowed it to use as a pretext to commit genocide and ethnic cleanse Palestinians , annex Gaza with Israel to settle Jews to create "Greater Israel". According to reports emerging from several sources Egypt,Saudi and the United …

CODEPINK (2024-03-08). Two Nancy Pelosi Constituents Arrested Outside Her Capitol Hill Office After Pelosi Refuses to Listen to Demands for a Ceasefire. globalresearch.ca

albawaba (2024-03-08). Iraqi resistance targets Rosh Pina airport with drone. albawaba.com The Islamic Resistance in Iraq has announced its second attack, targeting a military barracks at Rosh Pina Airport, an Israeli airport located in Rosh Pinna, near the Safed-Hatzor-Rosh Pina Industrial Park, in the occupied territories. The attack was carried out using a drone and is said to be in support of the people in Gaza.This comes after a pause in activities last month following an attack on an American base in Jordan, resulting in casualties among American soldiers. In response, the US launched airstrikes on Iranian-backed armed group sites in Iraq and Syria. The resumption of attacks by the Islamic Resist…

MEE staff (2024-03-08). War on Gaza: Google fires employee after pro-Palestine protest at Israeli tech conference. middleeasteye.net War on Gaza: Google fires employee after pro-Palestine protest at Israeli tech conference | The employee disrupted an address by the head of Google Israel during an event in New York City | | Activists and Google workers hold a protest outside Google's San Francisco office against the company's part…

M. Reza Behnam (2024-03-08). Cut From the Same Cloth: The United States and Israel in Palestine. counterpunch.org Revolutionaries in Iran in the 1970s referred to the United States as the "Great Satan" and to its ally, Israel, as the "little Satan." The truth of their rallying cry resounds today as Israel executes, unimpeded, its scorched earth policy in Gaza. The Israeli war on Gaza has been oiled by the military, financial and

Jeff Shantz (2024-03-08). Canada: Week of blockades, protests spotlights complicity, weapons sales to Israel. greenleft.org.au Palestine solidarity activists blockaded major arms manufacturing companies across Canada, reinforcing growing calls for an immediate embargo on the country's arms sales to Israel, reports Jeff Shantz.

tvbrics (2024-03-08). About US$6 billion to be allocated for infrastructure projects in Iran. tvbrics.com Next year's budget will increase by 18 per cent…

Richard D. Wolff (2024-03-08). Empire Decline and Costly Delusions. counterpunch.org

Richard D. Wolff (2024-03-08). Empire Decline and Costly Delusions. counterpunch.org

english.palinfo.com (2024-03-08). UN: 37 Palestinian mothers killed every day in Gaza An estimated 9,000 women have been reportedly killed by Israeli forces in Gaza to date, UN estimates revealed on Women's Day.

imemc.org (2024-03-08). Day 153 Update: Israel's Continued Bombings Kill Dozens In Gaza" The Israeli army continued for the 153rd day the bombing of various parts of the Gaza Strip, and the wiring and detonating of entire residential blocks across the coastal region, killing dozens and wounding hundreds.

dailysabah.com (2024-03-08). 60K Gazan pregnant women languish in malnutrition: Health Ministry About 60,000 pregnant women in the Gaza Strip are facing malnutrition and dehydration due to Israel's conflict with the enclave, the Health Ministry reported Thursday, just ahead of International Women's Day on March 8.

mediaite.com (2024-03-08). Biden's State of the Union 'Illegal' Comment Deserves to Be Seen in Context On Thursday night's State of the Union address, President Joe Biden upset some progressives and Latino members of Congress when he went off script and used the word "illegal" in reference to an undocumented migrant.

euobserver.com (2024-03-08). Gaza is also a war on women: where are European feminists?On International Women's Day, European feminists must break their deafening silence on the unspeakable horrors facing women and girls in Gaza.
  Palestinian women have become "victims of war crimes, crimes against humanity and an unfolding genocide", according to Reem Alsalem, the UN's special rapporteur on violence against women and girls.

yahoo.com (2024-03-08). U.N. Human Rights Council says Israel West Bank settlement plans amount to war crimesThe Human Rights Council on Friday released a report saying that the expansion of settlements "amount to the transfer by Israel of its own civilian population into the territories that it occupies, which amounts to a war crime under international law."

yahoo.com (2024-03-08). Biden promised unity, but State of the Union speech was loud, angry, partisanIn his State of the Union address Thursday night, he gave a speech that was partisan, dishonest and, at times, incoherent. It wasn't an update on America, nor was it hopeful, unifying or inspiring.
  Biden seemed mad and divisive and occasionally slurred his words and struggled to enunciate.

yenisafak.com (2024-03-08). Hamas describes deaths of Palestinian detainees at Israeli military facilities as 'war crimes' Haaretz daily says 27 detainees from Gaza died at Sde Teiman and Anatot facilities or while being questioned in Israeli territory

Nan Levinson (2024-03-08). Is There a Journalism That Doesn't Love a War? counterpunch.org War, what is it good for? Well, the media for starters. Shortly after the Biden administration responded to the killing of three American soldiers in a drone attack on a base in Jordan by bombing 85 Iran-connected targets in Iraq and Syria, the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) asked in a headline: "Is the press dragging America to

Victoria Torres (2024-03-08). Venezuela's Presidential Elections 2024: CNE Invites International Observers. orinocotribune.com

Ana Perdigón (2024-03-08). Notorious Venezuelan Gang Leader Killed in Police Operation. orinocotribune.com One of Venezuela's ten most wanted criminals, Deiber Johan González, leader of the criminal gang Carlos Capa, was killed in a police operation. | The incident occurred during a police operation carried out on Thursday, March 7, in Ocumare del Tuy, Miranda state. | Officers from the Bolivarian National Police (PNB), Miranda state police (Polimiranda), and the Scientific, Criminal and Criminalistic Investigation Corps (CICPC) were part of the deployment that surrounded Carlos Capa's main hideout. The special deployment was launched by the Venezuelan Ministry of Interior, Justice and Peace after receiving informatio…

Jacob Andrewartha (2024-03-08). Community picket shuts down HTA weapon's facility. greenleft.org.au Activists established a community picket that stopped work at the Heat Treatment Australia factory in Campbellfield, Naarm/Melbourne for the entire day. Jacob Andrewartha reports.

albawaba (2024-03-08). First-ever 3D printed Mosque built in Saudi Arabia. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – 3D printing has recently witnessed an extraordinary milestone and made headlines across the Middle East after a mosque in Saudi Arabia became the first-ever to be built fully using 3D printing technology! According to Saraya, the mosque in question was named after the late Abdulaziz Abdullah Sharbatly and was 3D printed in Jeddah under the Al-Jawhara project. The project was first initiated by a businesswoman called Wajannat Muhammad Abdel Wahed as a tribute to her late husband and the mosque took around six months to finish where a total of four printers were used to build it by China's Guanli on an e…

Tamara Dean (2024-03-08). Environmental Activists Just Scored a Major Win in Michigan. progressive.org A coalition including tribal communities blocked a marina that threatened a long stretch of dunes near the Kalamazoo River and Lake Michigan.

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.

Josh Frank (2024-03-08). Is There a Journalism That Doesn't Love a War? counterpunch.org War, what is it good for? Well, the media for starters. Shortly after the Biden administration responded to the killing of three American soldiers in a drone attack on a base in Jordan by bombing 85 Iran-connected targets in Iraq and Syria, the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) asked in a headline: "Is the press dragging America to

Alex MacDonald (2024-03-08). Iran foreign minister says Meta banning Khamenei was 'illegal and unethical'. middleeasteye.net Iran foreign minister says Meta banning Khamenei was 'illegal and unethical' | Hossein Amir Abdollahian tells MEE the 'Silicon Valley Empire' wants to censor pro-Palestinian voices | | Hossein Amir Abdollahian at the Human Rights Council in Geneva on 26 February (AFP/Gabriel Monnet)…

Staff (2024-03-08). Opposition parties stage protest against CAA ahead of PM's visit to Assam. muslimmirror.com Guwahati : Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's arrival in Assam on Friday on a two-day visit, opposition parties staged a protest in Kaliabor in Nagaon district against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA). The sit-in by the 16-member United Opposition Forum, Assam (UOFA) was held near Kaziranga, where the PM is scheduled to spend the …

teleSUR- hvh, DRL (2024-03-08). Unos tres muertos por ataque yemení contra barco en mar Rojo. telesurtv.net De acuerdo con medios internacionales, se trata de las primeras muertes desde que iniciaron las agresiones desde Yemen.

Pablo Rafael Fuentes (2024-03-08). Médicos cubanos en Djibouti atienden heridos de buque True Confidence. radiohc.cu La Habana, 8 mar (RHC) Médicos de la brigada cubana que labora en Djibouti atendieron a los heridos del buque portacontenedores True Confidence, el cual navegaba con bandera de Barbados y fue atacado por hutíes el miércoles, se conoció hoy.

teleSUR, JDO (2024-03-08). Presidente de Venezuela llama a rescatar historia insurgente. telesurtv.net Nicolás Maduro expresó: "Quieren borrar la memoria histórica" porque "un pueblo sin historia, sin identidad, sin puntos de encuentro, sin orgullo por lo que fue y es, es un pueblo fácil de dominar, de colonizar".

Pablo Rafael Fuentes (2024-03-08). En la prevención social, las mujeres son líderes. radiohc.cu La Habana, 8 mar (RHC) Cuando se habla de igualdad de género y su relación estrecha con la prevención social, la Federación de Mujeres Cubanas (FMC) es la instancia preponderante para formar a las personas en este sentido.

teleSUR, SH (2024-03-08). Presidente Maduro inaugura la primera Zona Juventud de la GMVJ. telesurtv.net Durante su visita a la capital del estado Falcón, el mandatario venezolano puso en servicio el gran Complejo Deportivo, Recreativo y Cultural Hugo Chávez.

Pablo Rafael Fuentes (2024-03-08). Nueva ruta aérea enlazará Venezuela con el oriente de Cuba. radiohc.cu La Habana, 8 mar (RHC) La Aerolínea Venezolana Rutaca inaugurará hoy una nueva ruta comercial para enlazar el aeropuerto internacional Simón Bolívar, de Maiquetía, Venezuela, con la terminal aérea internacional Frank País, en la provincia de Holguín, Cuba.

Pablo Rafael Fuentes (2024-03-08). Celebran en Cuba Día Internacional de la Mujer con desafíos. radiohc.cu La Habana, 8 mar (RHC) Con una presencia significativa en todos los sectores de la sociedad, las féminas de Cuba arriban hoy al Día Internacional de la Mujer con nuevos desafíos en términos de género.

teleSUR, odr, YSM (2024-03-08). Venezuela anuncia 3er Festival Internacional de Teatro Progresista. telesurtv.net Cuba es el país invitado de honor en esta edición.

teleSUR, YSM (2024-03-08). Investigan a exministro de Economía de Cuba, Alejandro Gil. telesurtv.net "El implicado ha reconocido graves imputaciones" desde el inicio de las investigaciones.

teleSUR, DRL (2024-03-08). CNE venezolano convoca a observadores internacionales para 28J. telesurtv.net El CNE publicó el cronograma para las elecciones presidenciales del 28 de julio.

Phil Pasquini (2024-03-08). New "Kibbutz" at Israeli Embassy. indybay.org For the past ten days at the Israeli Embassy, peaceful human rights activists have erected and maintained a presence 24/7 outside of the compound bedecked with numerous Palestinian flags, signs, banners and a memorial dedicated to Aaron Bushnell who last month immolated himself in protest over the war in Gaza whose last words were "Free Palestine."

english.almanar.com.lb (2024-03-08). US Activists Call to Stop Genocide in Gaza, Set up Palestinian 'Settlement' near Israeli Embassy. english.almanar.com.lb US activists set up a "settlement" in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC to protest the brutal war on Gaza and the oppression against Palestinians in the West Bank. US media reported on Wednesday that activists lined the Israeli embassy with Palestinian flags and banners condemning Gaza genocide. US activists set up Palestinian …

newarab (2024-03-08). Iran to unload crude from seized tanker Advantage Sweet. newarab.com

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