Month: June 2004

The president and the war: HAROLD MEYERSON, op-ed columnist for the Washington Post, comments on the transfer of “sovreignty” in Baghdad — and on the new poll showing Bush at his lowest approval ratings ever.

Also: the Supreme Court rules against the president on the prisoners at Guantanamo — DAVID COLE explains what rights they have — his new book is Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism.

And: The Rosenberg case and its effect on a family: filmmaker IVY MEEROPOL, granddaughter of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, talks about her new documentary “Heir to an Execution” — it’s been showing on HBO.

Plus: MICHAEL MOORE’s great new film, “Fahrenheit 9/11,” set records last weekend. DOUG HENWOOD comments.

Read Stuart Klawans in The Nation on Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11”

See the CBS-New York Times poll: Bush’s lowest approval ratings ever.

Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” View the trailer.

Abu Ghraib and the military’s cult of masculinity: CAROL BURKE explains the toxic combination of misogyny and homophobia in military culture. Her new book is Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High-and-Tight: Gender, Folklore, and Changing Military Culture. She also wrote The Nation‘s cover story Kinda Fonda Jane: Why They Love to Hate Her.”

Also: the lasting relevance of 1968: the year the rocked the world: MARK KURLANSKY explains.

And TOM HAYDEN talks about gangs and the gang violence that has killed 25,000 young people in America since 1980, and the neocon politics of law and order that only make things worse. Tom’s new book is Street Wars: Gangs and the Future of Violence, out now from The New Press. Tom recently wrote about the terrible prison fire in Honduras, “Homies were burning alive.”