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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.
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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: Nicaragua’s Real GDP per Capita since 1980
August 21, 2018
By 2008 Nicaragua’s real GDP per capita had grown to 23,087 Cordoba’s according to the IMF. The IMF doesn’t list... Read more →
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Emersberger: 45 Reuters Articles about Violent Protests in Nicaragua
August 15, 2018
1) OAS approves creation of group to address crisis in Nicaragua (7/30/2018) Reporting by Lizbeth Diaz; Writing by Julia Love;... Read more →
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August 9, 2018
BELOW IS AN EMAIL I SENT TO AMNESTY TODAY Drones were just used to drop bombs on a large crowd... Read more →
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Emersberger: Corbyn’s Capitulation: Lessons for the Left from UK Labour’s “anti-Semitism crisis”
August 2, 2018
This passage below from Stephen Bush’s latest on Jeremy Corbyn’s “anti-Semitism crisis” rings very true regarding Jon Lansman and a... Read more →
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August 1, 2018
Since the advent of the Trump administration, American progressives have been aghast at its narrow nationalist approach to world affairs.... Read more →
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July 29, 2018
Whatever happened to the notion that rich people should pay their fair share of the cost for their country’s public... Read more →
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Emersberger: “Early elections” rallying cry of coup supporters in Latin America
July 28, 2018
“Early elections” were advocated by Washington and US apologists in 2002 to consolidate the coup that briefly ousted Hugo Chavez.... Read more →
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Emersberger: As Ecuador gets ready to hand over Assange, don’t let Lenin Moreno off the hook
July 22, 2018
Even as Ecuador looks very ready to hand over Julian Assange to the UK government, and months after Lenin Moreno’s... Read more →
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Wittner: Has Democratic Socialism a Future in American Politics?
July 8, 2018
Recently, when 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, an obscure, upfront democratic socialist from the Bronx, easily defeated one of the most powerful... Read more →
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Emersberger: Reuters forgets Venezuela’s homicide rate and police death rate when it suits
June 23, 2018
If only it was somebody’s job to scrutinize claims made by officialdom and other partisan actors. We could call the... Read more →
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Emersberger: Corporate Media go to work on Rafael Correa (Keystone Cop edition)
June 20, 2018
You have to love this headline. The “missing opposition figure” isn’t missing! Ex-Ecuador leader sought in case of missing opposition... Read more →
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Wittner: Getting Ready for Nuclear War
June 19, 2018
Although many people have criticized the bizarre nature of Donald Trump’s diplomacy with North Korea, his recent lovefest with Kim... Read more →
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Wittner: Who Benefits from the “Booming Economy”?
June 11, 2018
Although the U.S. mass media are awash with stories about America’s “booming economy,” the benefits are distributed very unequally, when... Read more →
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Emersberger: The Guardians of Empire Assail Nicaragua
June 8, 2018
Kath Viner became the Guardian’s editor–in-chief in 2015. She reminds me of OAS chief Luis Almagro and Ecuador’s President Lenin... Read more →
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Emersberger: EXCLUSIVE: As Venezuelans Suffer, Reuters whitewashes Trump’s direct attack on them
May 24, 2018
Images and statistics regarding Venezuela’s economic crisis are relentlessly aimed a demonizing President Maduro’s government and absolving Trump for what... Read more →
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May 2, 2018
Below is a slightly edited and excerpted part of an unpublished review of mine of Maximilian Forte’s “Slouching Towards Sirte”,... Read more →
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Emersberger: Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno’s war on crime requires a war on roads?
April 24, 2018
One of the most important achievements of former Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa’s ten years in office was the vast improvements... Read more →
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Wittner: Review of Daniel Ellsberg’s “The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner”
April 19, 2018
It’s not every day that an insider tells us how preparations for nuclear war have been proceeding. So, when one... Read more →
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Wittner: Which Nations Are the Happiest — and Why
April 16, 2018
America’s oft-quoted Declaration of Independence, when discussing “unalienable rights,” focused on “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” Although “happiness”... Read more →
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Emersberger: Corbyn allies buckle under pressure from the UK’s pro-war establishment
April 13, 2018
Anyone who has been following the career of Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the British Labour party since 2015, knows that... Read more →
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April 12, 2018
I get lost in the words. I listen and watch this fool of a stooge president And then I look... Read more →
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ZAlbert: Leadership, Pace, Solidarity
April 9, 2018
This is chapter twenty one of the book RPS/2044: An Oral History of the next American Revolution. RPS/2044 has its... Read more →
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Kavanagh: The Warm War: Russiamania At The Boiling Point
April 2, 2018
Go to source Is it war yet? Yes, in too many respects. It’s a relentless economic, diplomatic, and ideological war,... Read more →
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Emersberger: The Guardian should immediately correct an op-ed by Nick Cohen
March 29, 2018
I sent this note to the Guardian’s readers editor today about a Nick Cohen article that was both libelous and... Read more →
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Emersberger: What would Philip Agee’s 1961 CIA budget in Ecuador get by 2002?
March 25, 2018
The late Philip Agee, a former CIA officer who blew the whistle on its dirty dealings, was the Edward Snowden... Read more →
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Zoomkawala: a dark unacceptable
March 19, 2018
Add to that list the poet who rambles on in stolen dark a dark prepared in stark solemnity a dark... Read more →
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March 12, 2018
Early this February, the Republican-controlled Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed new federal budget legislation that increased U.S. military... Read more →
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March 2, 2018
An extremely long article in the New York Times today has the headline “Can Venezuela Be Saved?” The subhead reads... Read more →
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Emersberger: It seems editorial standards are non-existent at Reuters when it comes to Venezuela
February 27, 2018
An article by Julia Symmes Cobb and Anggy Polanco ran with the headline ‘Migrate or die’: Venezuelans flood into Colombia... Read more →
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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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