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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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Emersberger: Venezuela is not even “authoritarian”, never mind a “dictatorship”
August 28, 2017
As I did near the end of May, I’ve taken detailed notes (see below) on an hour long newscast by... Read more →
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August 27, 2017
Phoney “anti-Trump” hero Vicente Fox eagerly does Trump’s dirty work against Venezuela. In this video Fox says of President Maduro... Read more →
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Emersberger: Caracas Chronicles and Madman Theory
August 23, 2017
The guy who wrote this blog post is a self-described “Fifth year medical student at ULA-Mérida. Dinosaur enthusiast.” He hopes... Read more →
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Emersberger: The UK Observer’s latest “news” article about Venezuela
August 22, 2017
RE: President Maduro strips Venezuela’s parliament of power Legislative powers taken from opposition-led parliament, as country’s fugitive attorney general alleges... Read more →
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Fitz: Green Time TV: Shaping Up
August 18, 2017
Green Time TV Shaping Up by Don Fitz September 2017 Green Time episodes say it’s time to shape up on... Read more →
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Emersberger: The Spectator’s Latest Effort to Use Venezuela to Attack Corbyn
August 11, 2017
Excerpts below from a Spectator editorial entitled “Jeremy Corbyn still cannot bear to condemn his fallen idols in Venezuela “... Read more →
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Wittner: Playing Nuclear “Chicken” With Our Lives
August 10, 2017
What kind of civilization have we developed when two mentally unstable national leaders, in an escalating confrontation with each other,... Read more →
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Khan: American rulers, their wars and the god
August 9, 2017
Nasir Khan, August 9, 2017 We were told by the US president George W. Bush that god had assented to... Read more →
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Emersberger: UN Human Rights Body Makes an Outlandish Statement on Venezuela
August 9, 2017
According to a UN statement that was widely reported by the media today, it is “unclear” if opposition rioters in... Read more →
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Emersberger: Recalling how the Blairites backed a coup in Venezuela
August 8, 2017
With Blairites, among many others, pressuring Corbyn to try to get him to join the establishment herd in a one-sided position on Venezuela... Read more →
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August 6, 2017
UPDATE BELOW Nick Casey, who blocked me on twitter last year even though I barely interacted with him, wrote an... Read more →
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Emersberger: Critique of a Greg Grandin piece on Venezuela
August 5, 2017
Overall Greg Grandin wrote a good piece about Venezuela but there are a few significant weak spots in it. His [Maduro’s]... Read more →
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Emersberger: The Guardian’s Latest Dishonesty about Venezuela
August 3, 2017
This Guardian article stated Security agents have since seized two opposition leaders from their homes after they called for protests... Read more →
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Emersberger: George Eaton believes over 100% of all infants die in Venezuela
August 2, 2017
George Eaton, who writes for the New Statesman in the UK, tweeted that there has been a 10,000% increase in... Read more →
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Emanuele: Free-Range Chickens and Yoga Won’t Stop Climate Change
July 22, 2017
“Neoliberalism is in the first instance a theory of political economic practices that proposes that human well-being can best be... Read more →
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Hitt: Ur-Fascism and Liberal Hope
July 17, 2017
Fascism is not revealed by shining the light of history on its current motley manifestation. Looking backward only reveals... Read more →
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Khan: Making America great again!
July 16, 2017
Nasir Khan, July 17, 2017 A lot of stories about Donald Trump’s lascivious ventures, adventures and fantasies are still being... Read more →
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Wittner: How Much is a Boss Worth?
July 16, 2017
An awful lot of Americans are skeptical about the value of their nation’s corporate executives. As a 2016 nationwide survey... Read more →
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Fitz: Green Time TV: Averting Climate Catastrophe
July 14, 2017
Green Time TV Averting Climate Catastrophe by Don Fitz Already altering the physical world, climate change threatens human health, our... Read more →
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July 14, 2017
http://www.mwcnews.net/focus/politics/66834-fanatics-distort-the-essence-of-religion.html Read more →
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Emersberger: Luisa Ortega Diaz: A newly minted hero to the international corporate media – UPDATED
July 6, 2017
UPDATE below in bold Venezuela’s long time Attorney General, Luisa Ortega, has recently entered into open conflict with Maduro’s government. Lucas... Read more →
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Markland: Chomsky on BDS: a transcript
July 4, 2017
The other day ZNet ran an interesting article by one Miss E, who writes from Berlin and offers some insightful... Read more →
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Wilson: The Nature of Grassroots Organizing
July 1, 2017
I wrote this based in part on my undergraduate thesis, “Power in Interpersonal Relationships: A Synthesis of Popular Approaches,” University... Read more →
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Khan: Who was responsible for the partition of India in 1947?
June 30, 2017
Nasir Khan, June 29, 2017 In response to one of my articles, one commentator wrote a short comment. As the... Read more →
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Auer: On Fighting The Toxic President
June 23, 2017
Five principles for fighting the toxic President Rolf Auer, Tuesday 20 June 2017 US President Donald J. Trump is toxic... Read more →
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June 16, 2017
I recently published a new book titled Practical Utopia with PM Press who I thank for accepting it and doing... Read more →
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Fitz: Green Time TV: Responsibility and Food
June 15, 2017
Green Time TV Responsibility and Food by Don Fitz Showing stewardship of the Earth and providing food are intimately connected.... Read more →
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Wittner: National Illusions and Global Realities
June 11, 2017
For as long as they have existed, nations have clung to the illusion that their military strength guarantees their security.... Read more →
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June 10, 2017
One could on and on about the many ways this article by Stephanie Nolan is hideously biased in favor of the... Read more →
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Khan: The electoral success of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom
June 10, 2017
Nasir Khan, June 10, 2017 All credit for the recent electoral gains in the United Kingdom goes to the election... Read more →
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