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About Z Blogs
Hello,
Blogs are a familiar feature on the internet - where users post content in an accumulating manner, with comments beneath and search options, etc. Blogs facilitate expression and exploration, and via attached comments, also debate and synthesis.
Creating Blog Posts
You can click here to create a new post.
Or, here is the whole procedure...
- Log into ZNet. Use your email and password. The system can send you a new password if you need one. If you haven't logged in at all, as yet, to start you need to request a new password.
- After loging in, on the left side of the admin bar at the very top of the page, you will see a plus symbol with the word New next to it, that looks like "+ New". Role your mouse over the symbol and click "ZBlog". This will take you to the admin page to upload a new blog. This is the most convenient access, as you can do it from anywhere on the site, anytime. You can also click this link: add a blog post.
- Add a blog title, fill the body content area (you can edit the source code/html by clicking the Text option on the Visual/Text tab in the editor). You can choose from among many formatting options, and embedding media.
- Once done editing your blog, in the top right "Publish" box, you can choose to save your blog as a draft or you can publish it immediately.
- After saving your blog as either Published or Draft, you can choose to view your post by selecting the "View post" link above the title or "Preview Changes" in the "Publish" box.
- You can edit your published blog either from your admin dashboard by clicking "ZBlogs" in the left side menu, or by viewing your blog and clicking the "Edit ZBlog" from the top admin bar.
Navigating and Using Blogs
Each Z author can post. Z Sustainers can also post. All Blogs appear in the blog system, and sometimes also in content boxes the top page of ZNet and can be found via searches, etc.
Comments on blogs follow the blogs, attached at the bottom, and blog comments, like all others, are also visible in many places that show comments. In addition, the entire blog system gathers content from everyone - but one can look at the accumulating content in many ways.
For example one can look at one writer's efforts - so one is seeing what is effectively a blog system for that one writer, or Sustainer.
One can also look at the content by topic, seeing blogs that are tagged as being about a certain topic - or place. When doing that, it is a blog system about a topic, or a place, with many contributors.
One can look at only writer blogs, or only sustainer blogs, as well.
Searches allow even more variables and refinements.
Z Interview Series
Some interviews with regular Z writers
Stresing: An Ordinary Radical
Peters: No More Random Acts
Marty & Marty: The Challenge is Global
Podur: Leftist in Every Bubble
Street: Side with the Underdog
Wilpert: Tackling Institutions
Vegas: A Revolutionary Environment
Pearson: We Don't Have Borders
Pilger: View from the Ground
All Z Blogs
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Nikolaidis: Tsipras: No to austerity, yes to Europe
July 8, 2015
Tsipras is on the floor with EU representatives discussing an agreement, possibly to be signed within a few days. He... Read more →
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Nikolaidis: Greek leftists aren’t vocal – but everyone else here sure is
July 7, 2015
Honest communication, serious research, and taking positive action are characteristics of a successful government – is that opinion really a bad... Read more →
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Wittner: What Do Americans Think About Economic Inequality?
July 6, 2015
Are Americans disturbed about growing economic inequality in the United States? Numerous opinion surveys in recent years indicate that substantial... Read more →
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Nikolaidis: Greek people are screwed and the majority of Greeks love it!
July 5, 2015
What is happening in Greece tonight is the most disgusting political event I have ever observed in all my half... Read more →
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Carty: A Short Anti Austerity Poetic Comic In Solidarity with the People of Greece
July 4, 2015
OXI !! I think Austerity is a good thing for the rich profits of corporations to pay because they have... Read more →
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Emersberger: Washington Post tells whoppers about Greece and Argentina
July 3, 2015
This WAPO article by Michael Birnbaum and Anthony Faiola said “But Argentina differs from Greece in deep ways. Argentina is one... Read more →
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Kavanagh: Syriza’s Final Charade
July 2, 2015
Go to source. In my February post on The SYRIZA Moment (and in a revision of that piece, forthcoming in... Read more →
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July 2, 2015
Where do American Christians stand on guns and gun-related violence? Christianity, after all, is a religion that professes love and... Read more →
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Lausti: The destructive grip of capital
June 30, 2015
By Tapani Lausti István Mészáros, The Necessity of Social Control. Monthly Review Press 2015. Politicians around the world are busy... Read more →
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June 29, 2015
EU Commission chief, Jean-Claude Junker, held a press conference today in which he claimed that Greece’s vicious EU overlords never... Read more →
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Emersberger: Reuters on PSUV primaries in Venezuela
June 28, 2015
The following line stands out, in a bad way, in Alexandra Ulmer’s report on the ruling party’s internal elections. “The... Read more →
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June 28, 2015
Argentina defaulted on its foreign debt in December 2001. Its example (along with Iceland’s and Ecuador’s) offer important lessons for... Read more →
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Khan: Killing of the Shia Muslims in Kuwait on June 26, 2015
June 27, 2015
Nasir Khan, June 27, 2015 Those who commit such crimes have no concern for humans and humanity. They think what... Read more →
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Hermann: The dilemma of CorporateCare
June 27, 2015
Reposted from HermannView. The Supreme Court recently ruled in favor of Obamacare, which will be called CorporateCare in the rest of... Read more →
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Khan: The ‘Special’ Relationship of the United States and Israel
June 25, 2015
Nasir Khan, June 25, 2015 In a comment on a short article of mine, Comrade Bill Benfield raises an important... Read more →
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Bourgault-Christie: Compassion Fatigue and Charleston
June 24, 2015
The shootings in Charleston have captured a nation’s attention. There have been some pretty laudable discussions emerging from this tragedy.... Read more →
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Emersberger: Nick Miroff Smears Venezuela’s Democratic Process – as usual
June 24, 2015
Nearly four months ago I said, at the end of this blog post, that Venezuela’s parliamentary elections would be held... Read more →
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Emersberger: Do I have psychic powers about Venezuela?
June 23, 2015
At the very end of this blog post, from almost four months ago, I said that Venezuela’s legislative elections “will... Read more →
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Wilson: Why U.S. Farmers Oppose ‘Free’ Trade
June 22, 2015
FARM WASHING ‘FREE’ TRADE There seems to be a lot of “farm washing” of the new ‘free’ trade agreements, the... Read more →
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Emersberger: Anti-Austerity Song posted on the Media Lens site
June 20, 2015
Anti-Austerity Song posted on the Media Lens site Here is the Youtube link UPDATE The singer / songwriter comments: “Thanks... Read more →
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quince: My experience as a student at ZSchool
June 18, 2015
Hi! I wanted to write about my experience of being a student in the first set of courses for ZSchool,... Read more →
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Khanlarzadeh: Rachel Dolezal’s story
June 17, 2015
I wrote this comment on Rachel Dolezal’s story a few days ago (before learning the more recent news on her... Read more →
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Kavanagh: Mad Cow Disease Blights Human Rights Festival
June 13, 2015
Go to source Je Suis Elsie Goldie The Wanted 18 is a funny and serious documentary by Canadian filmmaker Paul... Read more →
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Fitz: Green Time TV: Growing Against Racism
June 13, 2015
Green Time TV: Growing Against Racism by Don Fitz Do organic farms have a part in growing a... Read more →
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Bourgault-Christie: TPP and Stakeholders
June 12, 2015
So luckily the Democrats defeated the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement fast track authority today. The treaty is being staunchly opposed by... Read more →
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Emersberger: Reuters does much worse than bury the lead on TPP
June 11, 2015
This article by Reuters on a crucial vote in the US House of Representatives regarding the TPP (the Trans Pacific... Read more →
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Hermann: What’s the matter (Colonel) Bernie Sanders…chicken?
June 11, 2015
This was originally posted on HermannView and has been reprinted here. Progressive after progressive has supported the candidacy of Senator Bernie Sanders... Read more →
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Wilson: Farm Justice for Beginning Farmers
June 9, 2015
We’re Missing the Biggest Part (Subtitle, optional) INTRODUCTION This was written on the occasion of a Post on the “GOAT”... Read more →
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Wittner: Will Americans Vote for a Democratic Socialist?
June 7, 2015
The recent announcement by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, an avowed “democratic socialist,” that he is running for the Democratic nomination... Read more →
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Levy: Activists imprisoned in Azerbaijan, the house BP built
June 7, 2015
A protest against Azerbaijan’s crackdown on political dissent will be staged in London this Friday, 12 June, as the first... Read more →
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