THE PROGRESSIVE REPORT: BEING PROGRESSIVE IN THE USA

What is it to be progressive in the USA? Impending cuts to the social safety nets, Social Security, not really in a crisis and not what is driving the debt but, is a target in the right wing's and big business war on the poor, just like it always has been since 1935.

Why should we ban assault weapons, now?

Reforms needed for more transparency in the Government for us to function as a democracy and a civil society.

What the debt ceiling has to do with our economy and the world's economy?

All this and more will be the topics of todays Brian The Hammer Show when we welcome our newest Sponsor an online news magazine "The Progressive Press", Emine Dilek, Publisher and Journalists Paul & Grace Holter. Emine will be here to discuss all the headline news stories above and talk about The Progressive Press. As the name indicates The Progressive Press is "Progressive Publishing" and Emine would like to discuss the misconceptions of progressive publishing.

Call in LIVE to join the discussion on any or all of the headline topics above at 646-595-3032. 

Also the first to mention the Brian The Hammer Show on their Facebook page will receive Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" 

In THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America’s “free market” policies have come to dominate the world-- through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people