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Deal With The Devil
2024-03-25 22:45
by Mark Taylor, DeMOCKracy Ink Deal With The Devilby C.A. MatthewsAbout once a year, I feel compelled to write a post about the dangers and pitfalls of lesser evil voting in the US. So here… Read More
Introducing “The Aarons”
2024-03-18 23:23
Hollywood has its “Oscars” so why can’t the activist community have its “Aarons”? Introducing “The Aarons” words & photos of the U.T. Stu… Read More
Blood Money
2024-03-12 03:44
Blood Moneyby C.A. Matthews Tax season in the US has to be the most stressful time of the year. Even if you’re fairly certain you’ll receive a refund and not owe anything, you… Read More
True Civilization
2024-03-04 22:07
Watch this artwork's creation at https://twitter.com/borjaguti1/status/1763598552981213524True Civilization by C.A. MatthewsThere has been a lot of discussion both online and offline ab… Read More
The Quiet Part
2024-02-27 01:18
 “...We will continue to actively engage in the hard work of direct diplomacy on the ground until we reach a final solution.” --Remarks by Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield… Read More
Bullets V. Ballots Or...?
2024-02-19 20:45
Day X is here… This blog will post just before Julian Assange goes before the court in London for his extradition hearing on February 20-21. To keep up with the latest news on him… Read More
Thirty Pieces Of Blood-Stained Silver
2024-02-05 20:27
Thirty Pieces of Blood-Stained Silver by C.A. Matthews  If I could regain those two hours I’d gladly take them back and do something useful with them, like clean out my cat&rsquo&helli…Read More
Read The Room
2024-01-29 21:35
Read The Room by C. A. Matthews "Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." ~George O… Read More
How Much Is A Child’s Life Worth?
2024-01-23 00:40
How Much Is A Child’s Life Worth?by C.A. Matthews  Editor’s Note: On January 17, 2024, the Toledo (Ohio) City Council once again tabled voting on a Ceasefire in Gaza Reso… Read More
Marching Toward Justice
2024-01-15 22:36
https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-complicity-gazaMarching Toward Justiceby C.A. MatthewsNo justice. No peace!Know justice. Know peace!I wore an orange jumpsuit and a black hood over m… Read More
#BoycottMickey (Boycotts Work)
2024-01-08 21:40
#BoycottMickeyby C.A. Matthews  From Mickey Mouse (Disney) to MickeyD’s (McDonald’s), Palestine will be free!I’m just back from a cold—but very effective&mdas&helli…Read More
New Year's Revolutions
2024-01-02 08:30
New Year’s Revolutions  I can ease the suffering of this world With my head, my heart and my hand –-from the song Of This World  resolution /r… Read More
Silence Equals Death: 2023 In Review
2023-12-26 08:00
  Silence Equals Death: 2023 In Reviewby C.A. Matthews The very last post of the year for the past couple of years has been a review and summarization of events that happened in that… Read More
Peace In Palestine/Baby Angel
2023-12-19 02:08
photo by Amjad DoumaniPeace In PalestineThe “Ceasefire Carols” for peace in Palestine were well received in downtown Toledo at Promenade Park on Saturday night. We even picked up… Read More
The Elephant In The Room
2023-12-12 08:00
While you were shopping, bombs were dropping... on Gaza.Toledo area peace activists took a tour of a local shopping mall sharing their concerns over the genocide happening in Gaza. You can s… Read More
How Do We Live With Ourselves?
2023-12-05 08:00
 In Lak'ech Ala K'in. "I am you and you are me. What I do to you, I do to myself." —Mayan SayingHow Do We Live With Ourselves?by C.A. MatthewsIn this season of supposed “Pea… Read More
Your Congressmember At Work--For Israel
2023-11-28 08:00
Your Congressmember At Work—For Israel  edited by C.A. MatthewsIt took over a month and a multitude of repeated attempts to contact Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur. Local activists… Read More
Keeping Up With The Jen O'Syders
2023-11-21 08:00
Keeping Up With The Jen O’Sydersby C.A. Matthews From time to time, we at The Revolution Continues blog like to get out in the community and see how people are coping and dealing wit… Read More
A Graveyard For Children (Censored)
2023-11-14 08:00
  This week's blog has been censored by Blogspot. You can find it in full at Substack at https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com  Thank you for your understanding. A… Read More
The Root Of All Evils
2023-11-07 08:00
The Root Of All Evilsby C. A. Matthews For the love of Big Oil is the root of all evils. —1 Timothy 6:10 No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and lov… Read More
The New Litmus Test
2023-10-31 07:00
The New Litmus Testby C.A. Matthews  As the US November election day rolls around, the question as to whom to vote for haunts me. Often times, I vote only on the issues on the ballot (s… Read More
Free Free Palestine!
2023-10-17 17:31
photo by Amjad DoumaniFree Free Palestine!words and some photos by C.A. Matthews“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free! Free, free Palestine!”I had thought about writ… Read More
Performative Politics
2023-10-03 07:00
Performative Politicsby C. A. Matthews I’ve heard the term performative politics quite often in recent times. It makes me wonder why this kind of politics has come into vogue. Let&rs&hellip…Read More
Interview With A Non-Scientist
2023-09-26 07:00
  Interview with a Non-Scientist by C. A. Matthews With the recent March to End Fossil Fuels in New York and the deadly floods in Libya and elsewhere, environmental crises a… Read More
Why The Revolution Hasn't Started Yet
2023-09-19 09:00
Why The Revolution Hasn't Started Yetby C.A. Matthews That’s what authentic living is, in my view: meeting life just as it is, without egocentric filters, distortions or manipulat… Read More
The Cure For TDS
2023-09-12 07:00
The Cure For TDSby C.A. Matthews January 6, January 6, January 6, January 6, January 6, January 6, January 6, January 6, Orange man bad, Orange man bad, Orange man bad, Orange man bad, Put… Read More
Fighting Words
2023-09-05 12:59
Fighting Wordsby C. A. Matthews If you’ve ever wondered what people were talking about when they say something like, “The US is essentially an oligarchy,” then welcome… Read More
The Glass Is Refillable
2023-08-29 07:00
The earth looks so beautiful from space. Let's keep it that way. The Glass Is Refillableby C. A. Matthews Most of us reach a breaking point at one time or another in our lives. There&rsqu&hell…Read More
Shades Of Suez
2023-08-22 07:00
Our resident historian and all-around sharp and savvy person, Coast Watcher, returns to the blog with an in-depth look at the recent going-ons in Africa, particularly between Niger and their… Read More
This Is What Empire Looks Like
2023-08-15 07:00
 This Is What Empire Looks Likeby C.A. Matthews...Mark Twain, William Jennings Bryan, and all those early anti-imperialists understood America had a choice: It would be empire abroad… Read More
The Choice
2023-08-08 17:59
The Choiceby C.A. Matthews I attended the Green Party US Annual National Meeting this past weekend. Once again we convened together online to hear what our fellow Greens and others have to… Read More
Fourteen Years And Counting
2023-08-01 07:00
Fourteen Years and Countingby C. A. Matthews  Most of us can remember our “first, real paying job.” For Americans, we were most likely in high school, and a classmate ment… Read More
What Planet Are You On?
2023-07-25 07:00
What Planet Are You On?by C.A. Matthews  Reality isn’t to everyone’s tastes.  This is most evident in the the comment sections of blogs and social media sites like Twit… Read More
Boulder. Together.
2023-07-18 07:00
  Boulder. Together.by C.A. Matthews  It’s been difficult, if not next to impossible, to become excited by the American political scene in recent years. The whole elect… Read More
Clusterf*cked: The Cruelty Is The Point
2023-07-11 07:00
  Clusterf*cked: The Cruelty is the Pointby C.A. Matthews Editor's Note: This week we ran into a very interesting person who expresses a very disturbing point-of-view. We asked her what… Read More
Join Team Orca!
2023-06-27 07:00
Join Team Orca!by C.A. Matthews It’s not every day that warming oceans and the detrimental effects they cause make the news in four separate, but not unrelated stories.  One woul… Read More
Impossible Things (Uniting The Left)
2023-06-20 07:00
Impossible Things (Uniting The Left)by. C.A. Matthews “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderla… Read More
Hazy Days Are Here Again
2023-06-13 07:00
Hazy Days Are Here Again by C.A. Matthews Hazy days are here again— Smoky skies and tears to lend The environment is screwed my friend! Hazy days are here again! (*Sung to the tune… Read More
Canceling Free Speech
2023-06-06 07:00
Is this the end of protests?If western governments need to keep ramping up censorship, propaganda and the persecution of journalists in order to defend western freedom and democracy, is it r… Read More
The Unwelcoming Society
2023-05-30 07:00
The Unwelcoming Societyby C. A. Matthews When my mother first got off the ship in the United States of America, I wonder… Did she feel welcomed? It was right before the start of the… Read More
(How Not To Say) Told You So
2023-05-23 07:00
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.― Joe Klaas  (How Not To Say) Told You Soby C.A. Matthews Seven years ago, if you’d asked me if Hillary Clinton… Read More
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Armageddon
2023-05-16 07:00
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Armageddonby C.A. Matthews Bill, a.k.a. “Bill S. Preston, Esquire”, shuffles into a suburban garage music studio where his friend, Ted &ldqu&hellip…Read More
Behind The Curtain
2023-05-09 07:00
"Pay no attention to the man behind that curtain!"In these weird times, sometimes it's good to take a break and look back into our past and see what all we can learn from those who came befo… Read More
We Know What They're Afraid Of
2023-05-02 07:00
 We Know What They're Afraid Ofby C. A. Matthews Have you ever heard the old expression, When your enemy is making mistakes, don’t stop and correct him? I believe working class Am… Read More
Weaponizing Free Speech
2023-04-25 07:00
This is the dystopia you were warned about. A mind-controlled populace thinking, speaking, shopping, moving and voting in accordance with the will of the powerful. All that's left now is… Read More
The Average Billionaire
2023-04-18 07:00
 The Average Billionaire by C. A. MatthewsHow “average” would I feel if I became a billionaire? Since I’m nowhere close to becoming even a lowly millionair… Read More
Digital McCarthyism
2023-03-14 07:00
Digital McCarthyismby C. A. Matthews It was bound to happen sooner or later. And it did—a self-proclaimed “very important person in government” would impugn the integrity o… Read More
The New Title 42
2023-03-07 08:00
The New Title 42info gathered by C.A. Matthews Editor's note: From the "Just when you hoped things would get better for ordinary people" department comes news of what the Biden Administratio… Read More
Does The US Deserve Redemption?
2023-02-28 08:00
Hey, I've got a smart idea: let's make laws that require corporations to act like sociopaths, pursuing profit without any consideration for morality or human well-being, then let's allow our… Read More
American Chernobyl
2023-02-21 16:08
 American Chernobylby C. A. Matthews"A society that prohibits the capacity to speak in truth extinguishes the capacity to live in justice." --Chris Hedges Ididn’t hear about the t… Read More
Pay For Your Own Wars, Big Oil!
2023-02-14 08:00
Pay For Your Own Wars, Big Oil!by C.A. Matthews Did you get a chance to read Pulitzer Prize-winner Seymour Hersh’s excellent exposé on who and how and when the Nord Stream LNG p… Read More
Why Are We Repeating History?
2023-02-07 08:00
Why Are We Repeating History?  by C. A. Matthews  Happy Black History Month! Last year, we spent several weeks in the month of February discussing various topics that are of… Read More
Targets On Our Backs
2023-01-31 08:00
Targets On Our Backsby C. A. Matthews  Five cops brutally beat up and killed a young black man named Tyre Nichols in Memphis after a routine traffic stop. A large contingent of pol… Read More
The Great Divide
2023-01-24 08:00
The Great Divideby C.A. Matthews    Imagine, if you will, a Great Divide so wide and so deep that it takes hours—if not days—to cross on foot. To get from one side… Read More
Protesting Evil (Be The Peace)
2023-01-16 18:15
Protesting Evil (Be The Peace)by C.A. Matthews The greatest purveyor of violence in the world is my own government. I cannot be silent. —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1… Read More
Who's Really In Charge?
2023-01-10 08:00
Capitalism functions very efficiently without democracy. --Chris HedgesYou'll never stop depraved agendas as long as propagandists can manipulate a critical mass of people into consenting to… Read More
Resolved: Capitalism Must Die
2023-01-03 13:40
Resolved: Capitalism Must Dieby C. A. Matthews     Most New Year’s resolutions aren’t kept for more than a month. Six weeks tops. Those resolutions to lose we… Read More
Heavenly Peace
2022-12-20 08:00
 Heavenly Peaceby C.A. MatthewsSilent night, holy night. All is calm, all is bright.‘Round yon virgin mother and child.Holy infant, so tender and mild,Sleep in heavenly peace!Slee… Read More
Disinformation Wars
2022-11-29 08:00
Disinformation Warsby C. A. Matthews   “The first casualty when war comes is truth.” —Senator Hiram W. Johnson From Caitlin Johnstone’s Newsletter:AP's anonymous… Read More
Lab Rats Of The World Unite!
2022-11-22 08:00
 Lab Rats of the World Unite! (You Have Nothing to Lose But Your Cheese)by C. A. Matthews If you’re thinking this article is about the student teachers, graduate assistants… Read More
What Do These Stories Have In Common?
2022-11-15 08:00
 What Do These Stories Have In Common? We have a guest blogger this week, but before we get to their article, here’s a story that popped up in the news that I felt is very importa… Read More
The Peace Eagle
2022-11-01 07:00
The Peace Eaglewords and original artwork by C.A. Matthews We don't have to submit to this. We don't have to keep sleepwalking into dystopia and armageddon to the beat of manipulative socio… Read More
Why All The Hate For Haiti?
2022-10-25 07:00
US Border Patrol deports Haitians like rustling cattleWhy All The Hate For Haiti?by Coast WatcherAct 1: Once Upon a Time...Toussaint Louveture and the Haitian Revolution inspired millions of… Read More
We Are Smarter Than They Think
2022-10-11 07:00
Apples don't fall far from the tree...We Are Smarter Than They Think (Much Smarter) by C.A. Matthews  Once upon a time there were two farmers.  Farmer A owned a love… Read More
Is This A Dystopian Novel?
2022-10-04 07:00
Is This A Dystopian Novel?(Or Is It Reality?)by C.A. Matthews I’m writing this on the way home from an annual science fiction convention we’ve attended for many years. My hu… Read More
Human Trafficking Isn't Funny
2022-09-27 07:00
photo: Dominic Chavez/Getty Human Trafficking Isn't Funny An open letter by Redd Phlagg Dear Governor DeSantis: You don’t know me, and you probably don’t listen much to… Read More
God Save The King?
2022-09-20 07:00
God Save the King? It's More Like God Help the British People!by Coast Watcher Tradition is a strong force in Britain. The "British way of doing things"is often at odds with the rest of the… Read More
Real Representation, Not Celebrities
2022-09-13 07:00
 (We Need) Real Representation, Not Celebritiesby C.A. Matthews  “It’s the real thing!” said a commercial a few decades back. Genuineness was a virtue to rej… Read More
You Can't Make This Stuff Up
2022-09-06 07:00
We live in a time where leftists and communists are being labeled as Nazis and real Nazis are being labeled as freedom fighters standing up against fascism. We can't make this up. --Kris Leg… Read More
Put The US In The Time Out Chair
2022-08-30 07:00
Put The US In The Time Out Chairby C.A. Matthews When you work in a kindergarten, you see a lot of a particular kind of behavior. One kid—sometimes the biggest physically in the… Read More
The 50 Year Apology
2022-08-23 07:00
 The 50 Year Apologyby C.A. MatthewsIt’s amazing how fast your mind can go back in time when you hear a name or see a face that you haven’t seen in almost 50 years. Thi… Read More
The Rule Of Tyrannies
2022-08-16 07:00
The world will never know peace as long as war is profitable. The world will never know health as long as sickness is profitable. The ecosystem will never thrive as long as ecocide is prof… Read More
Whee! Let's Start World War 3!
2022-08-09 07:00
“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.” -- US Army General Omar… Read More
The Boot
2022-08-02 07:00
People who are ideologically prohibited from seeing capitalism as the obvious source of society's ills are forced to make up other things to blame those ills on like elite pedovore cabals… Read More
The Benefits Of World Hunger
2022-07-12 07:00
Rise, like lions after slumberIn unvanquishable number!Shake your chains to earth like dewWhich in sleep had fallen on you:Ye are many—they are few!~ Percy Bysshe Shelley “T… Read More
Whatever This Is, It's Not A Democracy
2022-07-05 07:00
Did Not Vote is a powerful majority. Why are their voices suppressed?Whatever This Is, It's Not A Democracyby C.A. Matthews Some folks running for office can tell their story much bette… Read More
Convinced Yet? (General Strike Now!)
2022-06-28 07:00
"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." --Frederick Douglass "The world is dominated culturally, economically and militarily by a regime tha… Read More
Welcome To The Fascist State Of America
2022-06-14 13:14
Liberals are fascistic tyrants and conservatives are whiny little bitches who run around looking for excuses to get offended. -- Caitlin Johnstone, Study US Foreign Policy By Looking At Oil… Read More
Atrocity Propaganda And Narrative Control
2022-06-07 07:00
Russian propaganda poses a much smaller threat to the western world than the various government agendas that are being rolled out under the justification of fighting Russian propaganda. … Read More
All Guns Are B*stards
2022-05-31 07:00
 All guns are bastards... I was going to entitle this week's posting a bit more politely, but then something got the better of me. There is no such thing as a "good gun" like there's n… Read More
Cognitive Dissonance
2022-05-24 07:00
This week we're all still reeling from the hideous massacre of ten African-Americans by an 18 year old white boy. Shooter Payton Gendron drove three hours to predominantly Black East Buffalo… Read More
Your Obedience Is Prolonging This Nightmare
2022-05-17 07:00
"I don't think that a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body." --Joe Biden, 1974Your Obedience Is Prolonging This Nightmareby C. A. Matthews I participated in one of… Read More
The Ministry Of Truth V. Roe V. Wade
2022-05-10 07:00
The Ministry of Truth v. Roe v. Wadeby C.A. MatthewsTwo shocking revelations were made public this past week that, at first glance, may not seem to have anything in common. Yet at second gla… Read More
Brother, Can You Spare $7 Billion?
2022-05-03 07:00
Brother, Can You Spare $7 Billion?by Coast Watcher Once they sent some missiles to UkraineThanks to the folks on the HillOne they sent some missiles, now we're doneBrother, can you spare sev… Read More

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