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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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Wittner: What Democratic Socialism Is and Is Not
March 24, 2019
In recent weeks, Donald Trump and other Republicans have begun to tar their Democratic opponents with the “socialist” brush, contending... Read more →
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March 15, 2019
The initiatives that become motto and emblem for the initiatives of public administrations in Galicia, and I imagine that in... Read more →
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Carty: Waking up to War Against Venezuela
February 28, 2019
We the people should stop trusting the same ‘journalists’ that cajoled us into the invasion of Iraq, Libya, ect. Large... Read more →
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February 27, 2019
Palestine needs Europe and the world’s solidarity in effective ways, so its good to hear a union in my own... Read more →
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Andelkovic: Support Serbia’s “One In Five Million” movement, but for the right reasons
February 20, 2019
Coming from Serbia, but living in Germany for more than 10 years, it is easy to lose perspective. Every time... Read more →
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February 19, 2019
The Trump administration’s campaign to topple the government of Venezuela raises the issue of whether the U.S. government is willing... Read more →
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February 8, 2019
Last year, I asked Amnesty International for its position on US economic sanctions against Venezuela. I also asked Amnesty’s position... Read more →
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February 7, 2019
At the beginning of February 2019, the two leading nuclear powers took an official step toward resumption of the nuclear... Read more →
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Carty: ‘Populism’ is a deliberately meaningless term
January 24, 2019
Use of the term ‘Populism’ is a deliberately vague misdiagnosis of our world’s problems. It lumps all change that might... Read more →
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January 24, 2019
Ever since the U.S. atomic bombings of Japanese cities in August 1945, a specter has haunted the world―the specter of... Read more →
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Lausti: British media’s role as the guardian of elite interests
January 17, 2019
By Tapani Lausti David Edwards & David Cromwell, Propaganda Blitz: How the Corporate Media Distort Reality. Foreword by John Pilger.... Read more →
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Emersberger: Was that the Onion or Reuters Quoting Mike Pompeo on Venezuela?
January 16, 2019
This Reuters article says “The Maduro regime is illegitimate and the United States will work diligently to restore a real... Read more →
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Santamaria: More about the connection “seats”/“votes”, this time at the Spanish Congress…
January 12, 2019
Something about the connection among “seats” and “votes” at the Spanish Congress. Scroll to “results” and look at the distribution... Read more →
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January 10, 2019
Bill Blum passed away early last month in Virginia. Many Z Net readers will know his canonical book, Killing Hope:... Read more →
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Wittner: Do We Really Need Billionaires?
January 7, 2019
According to numerous reports, the world’s billionaires keep increasing in number and, especially, in wealth. In March 2018, Forbes reported... Read more →
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Zoomkawala: Exploring the institutional drivers of gender bias
January 5, 2019
The Social Institutions and Gender index (SIGI) was first launched in 2009, and then updated in 2012 and 2014. The... Read more →
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January 2, 2019
I’ve been having a look at the results of these elections as they appear in the Galician Wikipedia, in the... Read more →
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Santamaria: A simple check: something that surely could be applied to Trump’s policies.
December 30, 2018
This is the main part of a mail I sent days ago to The WHO (The World Health Organization, https://www.who.int/home ),... Read more →
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Wittner: The United States is First in War, But Trailing in Crucial Aspects of Modern Civilization
December 29, 2018
Maybe those delirious crowds chanting “USA, USA” have got something. When it comes to military power, the United States reigns... Read more →
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Santamaria: A (probably well-known) problem (or fallacy) about Parliaments: the Galician model.
December 27, 2018
According to the English Wikipedia page about the Galician Parliament https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_Galicia, the Parliament of Galicia has amongst its functions... Read more →
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Santamaria: The STATUTES of the UDNG: on the search of political excellence.
December 25, 2018
In April 2001 I was mandatorily retired by the Department of Education of the Galician Administration, (then leaded by... Read more →
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December 21, 2018
(Some previous warning: A careful reading should reveal the state of Environmental Law in Galicia, in contrast, for instance, with... Read more →
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Santamaria: The Sale of Galician Saving Banks
December 17, 2018
On the merger of Galician saving banks: (a possible connection of the President of the Galician Xunta, Alberto Nuñez Feyjoo,... Read more →
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Wittner: Reviving the Nuclear Disarmament Movement: A Practical Proposal
December 8, 2018
In late November 2018, Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned public intellectual, remarked that “humanity faces two imminent existential threats: environmental catastrophe... Read more →
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Glaving: Debunking the Times on Bush I:s foreign policy record
December 2, 2018
Below is a list of the most blatant pieces of deception concerning George H.W. Bush’s foreign policy record, reported in... Read more →
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Emersberger: “No Deal” Brexit predictions, GDP, average incomes, austerity and the CLIMATE CRISIS
November 30, 2018
If Bill Gates walks into a room full of factory workers then the average income of everybody in the room skyrockets.... Read more →
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November 22, 2018
“CONAIE and CREO direct the new National Electoral Council“ announces a headline yesterday in the rightwing Ecuadorian newspaper El Universo.... Read more →
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Zoomkawala: An unhandsome toil
November 21, 2018
Here are poetic tangents – mine with Lorde’s and Rukeyser’s – to a podcast I heard last night: a tribute... Read more →
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Wittner: Lurching Toward Catastrophe: The Trump Administration and Nuclear Weapons
November 18, 2018
In July 2017, by a vote of 122 to 1, with one abstention, nations from around the world attending a... Read more →
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Emersberger: Open Letter to the CBC Ombudsman (Esther Enkin) about Venezuela
November 14, 2018
Dear Esther: I reply below to your review of my complaint about Evan Dyer’s “analysis” piece about Venezuela. Your review... Read more →
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