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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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Khan: Religious beliefs versus rational thinking
July 31, 2016
Nasir Khan, July 31, 2016 From a Humanistic point of view, followers of all religions should be respected and their... Read more →
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Khan: Kashmir, Palestine and my Facebook Friends
July 26, 2016
Nasir Khan, July 26, 2016 At present, I have about three thousand Facebok friends who come from different parts of... Read more →
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Wittner: Superpowers Are Violent Powers
July 17, 2016
If asked to identify the world’s superpowers today, most people would name the United States, Russia, and China. Although many... Read more →
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Khan: Kashmiris Right to Determine Their Future Is the Only Solution to the Kashmir Conflict
July 16, 2016
Nasir Khan, July 16, 2016 Today Professor Raj Bhat, himself a Kashmiri, raised a few questions and asked for my... Read more →
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Fitz: Green Time TV: Preparing for Danger
July 16, 2016
Green Time TV Preparing for Danger by Don Fitz Many dangers to the environment and human health could be lessened... Read more →
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Khan: Brtual Indian oppression continues in Kashmir
July 15, 2016
Nasir Khan, July 15, 2016 The partition of India in 1947 was because of a number of factors. As a... Read more →
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edwards: The Self Segregation of Retail Workers
July 15, 2016
REI workers in Seattle are stirring. Seattle councilwoman Kshama Sawant recently held a rally in support of REI’s workers. The... Read more →
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Ganchev: Graduate schools for public policy/affairs?
July 13, 2016
My friend wants to do graduate study in public affairs or public policy (Masters or PhD) at a university in... Read more →
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edwards: The Comfort of Customized Facts
July 13, 2016
Being a veteran, many of my Facebook friends are conservative. They tend to like their firearms and dislike Black Lives... Read more →
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Wittner: Are We in for Another Increase in Military Spending?
July 12, 2016
At the present time, an increase in U.S. military spending seems as superfluous as a third leg. The United... Read more →
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Khan: Remarks on Luis L. Tijerina’s essay ‘The Russian and Syrian Alliance’
July 3, 2016
Nasir Khan, July 2, 2016 In his paper Luis Lazaro Tijerina fills in much-needed information to understand Russian and Syrian... Read more →
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Khan: The Forces of Darkness and Ignorance in Pakistan
June 23, 2016
Nasir Khan, June 23, 2016 The tragedy that started in 1947 in the shape of Pakistan and in the name... Read more →
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Emersberger: Will the Guardian Correct an Atrocious Article by Julian Borger?
June 22, 2016
This article by Julian Borger on Venezuela’s economy sates that “By IMF figures, it has the world’s worst negative growth rate (-8%),... Read more →
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June 20, 2016
Resurrecting Occupy and Breathing Life into Shared Program by Taking it to the Streets There is a new initiative called... Read more →
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Fitz: Green Time TV: Broken Systems – Real Alternatives
June 16, 2016
Green Time TV Broken Systems – Real Alternatives by Don Fitz When systems break down, it’s time to develop new... Read more →
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Emersberger: Another day, another outrageous lie in the WAPO about Venezuela
June 16, 2016
To see how terrible the western media is, just follow its Venezuela coverage. In a Washington Post op-ed, David Ignatius wrote ... Read more →
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Emersberger: Mariana Zuñiga takes her rotten journalism to the Washington Post
June 14, 2016
Zuñiga’s recent BBC article was horrible (and never corrected by the BBC). She used it to spread one unsubstantiated whopper... Read more →
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June 13, 2016
Nasir Khan, June 13, 2016 The massacre of so many innocent people at the hands of Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old... Read more →
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Emersberger: Email to Tracy Wilkinson of LA Times Re. Venezuela
June 3, 2016
Re: U.S. nudges the Vatican, other allies to help rescue Venezuela Dear Tracy Wilkinson: You wrote “Socialist, anti-U.S. governments have... Read more →
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Emersberger: To its credit, Reuters sets the record straight on Venezuela’s recall process
June 2, 2016
To anyone who values honest journalism, it was nice to see that this Reuters article did not let a statement... Read more →
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Khan: Inherited beliefs and freethinking
May 28, 2016
Nasir Khan, May 28, 2016 All human children are born in the same way, according to the physiological and biological... Read more →
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Emersberger: Venezuela’s Recall Process and the International Media’s Lies of Omission
May 28, 2016
The international media and the president of the OAS, Luis Almagro, are demanding that Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro allow a... Read more →
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Emersberger: BBC article runs wild with unsourced whoppers about Venezuela
May 27, 2016
This BBC article by Mariana Zuniga says “This situation might be bearable if the Venezuelan oil-dominated economy was performing... Read more →
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Wittner: The Return of Democratic Socialism
May 23, 2016
Democratic socialism used to be a vibrant force in American life. During the first two decades of the twentieth century,... Read more →
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Emersberger: To the NYT editors, a coup government is simply a “new” government – UPDATED
May 23, 2016
Today’s NYT editorial “The Left on the Run in Latin America” underscores that there never really was a “good left”... Read more →
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Corporate Watch UK: New Book: Struggles for autonomy in Kurdistan
May 23, 2016
Kurdistan is currently divided between four countries: Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey. In each of the parts of Kurdistan, Kurdish... Read more →
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May 20, 2016
Nasir Khan, May 20, 2016 Humans created god by attributing many of their own qualities unto an imaginary ‘being’. But... Read more →
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Fitz: Green Time TV: Tough Environmental Decisions
May 17, 2016
Green Time TV Tough Environmental Decisions by Don Fitz The survival of humans requires confronting very difficult environmental dilemmas. We... Read more →
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Kavanagh: Plan B Is Not Bernie
May 16, 2016
Go to source. I admit: It’s all speculation. On April 4th, I wrote on Facebook: “My prediction: the next President... Read more →
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Cooper: How will Sanders take on Trump going forward?
May 16, 2016
Barring some unforeseen catastrophes, the well-greased campaign of Hillary Clinton is closing in on the Democratic nomination, while the “insurgent”... Read more →
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So we need users to become Sustainers. And what does this have to do with Blogs?
Well, it is a perk of helping us by being a Sustainer that you can comment on materials throughout the site, and that you can post blogs.
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