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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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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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Mohan: The Real Problem with the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi
November 4, 2018
A Question of Style The current events in Istanbul say nothing at all about the medieval regime in Saudi Arabia... Read more →
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November 4, 2018
Below is a slightly edited (and rushed) transcript of a talk I was asked to give. It was part of... Read more →
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Emersberger: Will The IMF Censure Itself Over Its Wild Unemployment Estimates for Venezuela?
October 24, 2018
The IMF says unemployment in Venezuela is at about 30% It claims it was 27% in 2017and that it will... Read more →
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Zoomkawala: Poems, Justice and Data Visualization
October 17, 2018
I have long been entertaining the possibility of somehow tying together the three areas: poems, social justice and data visualization.... Read more →
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October 11, 2018
Dreaming political concepts in Iran and the US: Huey Newton and Ali Shariati, through the movie Black Panther ... Read more →
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Wittner: What’s Happened to the Big Wage Increases Promised by Republicans?
October 7, 2018
The recent announcement by the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, that his company would give substantial raises to its lowest-paid... Read more →
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Emersberger: Anti-Maduro Poll shows a coup in Venezuela would require a horrific death toll
September 30, 2018
An op-ed in The Hill ran with the headline “Options to get Maduro out are limited and unpleasant” The author,... Read more →
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Zoomkawala: history from below in Pakistan: Mubarak Ali
September 15, 2018
If anyone can claim the title of “the people’s historian” in Pakistan, it is Mubarak Ali. Some years ago, he... Read more →
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Zoomkawala: the ten thousand things
September 13, 2018
Resistance, the flowering fire of memory – Rukeyser, Muriel As we mark the thinness of the ten thousand things, as... Read more →
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Wittner: Today’s College Students Are Paying More for Less
September 9, 2018
Despite the soaring costs of attending American colleges and universities, their students are receiving an education that falls far short... Read more →
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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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