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The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (Is No Democracy At All)by C.A. Matthews I believe most Americans understand that the United States is not a democracy or even qualifies as a representa… Read More
The Fightby C.A. Matthews Nowadays there are so many things coming at us all at once—climate disasters, political disasters, personal disasters—that it sometimes becom… Read More
Celebrate The Winby C.A. MatthewsJulian Assange’s release from Belmarsh Prison was all anyone could talk about online for days this past week. It was definitely good news worth sharing… Read More
“The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not nece… Read More
We need to tell the truth about the ugliness to history. We don't honor our forefathers if we don't learn from their mistakes. —Radical Jesus on X.The Ugliness To Historyby C. A. Matth… Read More
Go to therevolutioncontinues.substack.com to see all images and links. Sorry for the inconvenience, but Google is playing games or censoring things again.Biden’s Berlin Wallby C… Read More
“The sinews of war are infinite money.” --Marcus Tullius Cicero"How many free school lunches could have been bought with the money we used to send bombs to Israel so they could b… Read More
"We Have Blood On Our Hands" (original painting by Caitlin Johnstone)Shutting Down The Bulliesby C. A. MatthewsIsrael to Punish West Bank After 3 More Countries Recognize Palestinian State h… Read More
I don't know if there has ever been a time comparable to this one, where we are seeing people for who and what they really are. There's nowhere to hide anymore. You're either with God or you… Read More
Changing The Worldby C. A. Matthews“If you think we can’t change the world, it just means you’re not one of them who will.” --Jacque FrescoThe last two hundred plus… Read More
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All Cops Are [Expletive Deleted]by C.A. Matthews
I really hate
slapping a label onto a particular group of people, but sometimes
the label just fits.After watching
videos and reading stori… Read More
We've apparently reached the "University arresting its own professors" stage of decline. —Edward Snowden https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1783626709364797896Zionarci… Read More
Exposing Dirty Tricksby C.A. Matthews Has anyone ever tried to pull the wool over your eyes? Fooled you into believing something that turned out later to be false? How did you feel after you… Read More
The Writing's On The Wallby C.A. MatthewsSome days it feels like this nightmare will go on forever. It’s overwhelming. When you can’t even have a reasonable, adult conversation w… Read More
Editor's
note:
I had a dream about this whole hot mess the
world finds itself in. I wanted to share my vision, but I struggled to put it
into words until I decided to write it as a short… Read More
If you still have any doubt that we live in a profoundly sick dystopia as deranged as anything that’s ever been imagined in fiction, take note of the fact that the most powerful empire… Read More
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
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 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
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
“...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
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
Free Assange. Free Palestine. Free Your Mind.by C.A. Matthews February 20, 2024 is a date that could very well live in infamy. Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange could be extradited from the… Read More
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… Read More
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?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
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
#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… Read More
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 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
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
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
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
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’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
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 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 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
It’s a little bit bomby in Gaza today,at least that’s what the news men say.Israeli victims were “murdered” and “killed”and all mourn the innocent b… Read More
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
Happy Indigenous People's Day!Free the indigenous people of Palestine from the open air prison created by their occupiers! Free Palestine! Watch this short video from 2 years ago to understa… Read More
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… Read More
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 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 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 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 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… Read More
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 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
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 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?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.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 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
Happy Co-Dependence Day, America (Boiling Frogs)by C.A. MatthewsThe story goes that you can boil a live frog, but you have to go about it the right way or else the frog will jump out of the… Read More
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)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
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
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 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
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 Armageddonby C.A. Matthews
Bill,
a.k.a. “Bill S. Preston,
Esquire”,
shuffles
into a
suburban
garage music studio where his friend, Ted &ldqu… Read More
"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 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
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
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
China must be stopped before it imposes totalitarian diplomacy on Ukraine and authoritarian peace in the middle east. --Caitlin Johnstone
Good-bye,
BlackRock! So Long, Petrodolla… Read More
French
Revolution 2.0/American
Revolution Nilby C.A. Matthews If a massive series of nationwide strikes and protests occur across France, but American mainstream media completely… Read More
If you're lucky, one day you might receive an opportunity to speak your mind to your local elected officials in city hall. I've been fortunate enough to have been asked to address our local… Read More
Guest blogger Coast Watcher uses his history insights and his love of World War II era aircraft to explain the propaganda rolling in from the mainstream media outlets about the downed US dro… Read More
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 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
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 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!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? 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 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 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)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
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 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
2022: The Year Nothing Fundamentally Changed—Again At the end of each calendar year, we at TRC usually go over what’s happened in the world during the previous… Read More
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
If The Workers Take A Notion...by C.A. Matthews If the workers take a notion,They can stop all speeding trains,Every ship upon the oceanThey can tie with mighty chains.Every wheel in the cre… Read More
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! (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? 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
Using Your Vote In Our "Destroyed Democracy"by C. A. Matthews Readers might have noticed that TRC has spent very little blog space on the US midterms this time around. There are a coup… Read More
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
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
The Top Ten Things That Could Trigger The Revolution(In No Particular Order)The Price of Gasoline Hits $25 Per Gallon in the US This often-mentioned scenario seems like a sure bet… Read More
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?(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
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? 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
(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
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 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
