The Progressive Mind is a collection of articles and annotated links to sites, articles, publications and editorials expressing progressive and humanistic viewpoints. I have links to a few not-so-progressive sites as well. If I were a real scholar, I would balance things by looking at more views from the dark side.
Diary of a Guantanamo Attorney -- In These Times: "I had assumed that I was well-informed about our criminal president and his assault on the rule of law; it never occurred to me that four years after being captured (and more than one year after the Supreme Court affirmed their right to hearing and counsel) individuals were still being held without legal representation. I replied to the e-mail, offering my services."
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. ... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864.
"Government—unchecked, unbalanced, and left to its own devices—always becomes a tyrannical leviathan." Kurt Nimmo, April 20, 2006
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