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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: If Farmworkers Are “Essential,” Why Are They Treated So Badly?
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Wittner: Will the Coronavirus Pandemic Help Curb War and Militarism?
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Santamaria: Infected or sick? Infected or ill?
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Santamaria: Bob Dylan’s new song
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Lausti: Journalism and “Western Values”
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Wittner: The World’s Major Military and Economic Powers Find Happiness Elusive
Long before the advent of the coronavirus pandemic left people around the world desperate for survival, a popular assumption emerged... Read more →
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Santamaria: Coronavirus as a catalyst for change
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Wittner: Trump’s Budget Proposal Reveals His Values
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Emersberger: No, Venezuela does not have a six child per family policy
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Carty: If Sanders forms a real Alliance with Warren, their Popular Policies Can Win
Conventional wisdom is that a presidential candidate should pick an opposite or contrasting vice presidential running mate, to create a... Read more →
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Wittner: Trump Betrays His Promise to Protect and Fight for American Workers
Campaigning for the presidency in 2016, Donald Trump promised that, if he was elected, “American worker[s] will finally have a... Read more →
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Carty: Forget Brexit, Rebellion is the Verb!
While I essentially agree with Patrick Cockburn’s article in the Independent “Sinn Fein’s Election Victory is Ireland’s Brexit Moment”. I... Read more →
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On the 14th of January last month Ireland’s Taoiseach (Leader) announced a snap election for 8th February 2020. On that... Read more →
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Wittner: Could the Climate Crisis Be “The Good News of Damnation”?
On August 12, 1945, six days after the U.S. government obliterated the city of Hiroshima with a single atomic bomb,... Read more →
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Eklavya: An Easy Proof of Behaviourism
The Experiment Confirming that stimulus and reward change behaviour. Participant (Subject): Consent not necessary, as it avoids chances of bias.... Read more →
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Carty: Rush elections are like a non violent coup against public consciousness.
Ireland’s leader Leo Varadkar, has just announced snap election for February 8th?? that’s about 3 weeks, how does a legitimate... Read more →
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Wittner: A Historian Reflects on the Return of Fascism
Back in 1941, the year of my birth, fascism stood on the brink of conquering the world. During the preceding... Read more →
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Wittner: Americans Are Ready for a Different Approach to Nuclear Weapons
Although today’s public protests against nuclear weapons can’t compare to the major antinuclear upheavals of past decades, there are clear... Read more →
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Emersberger: Notes on a private TV newscast in Bolivia. The contrast with Venezuela is clear as day
In August, I took detailed notes a news broadcast on one of Venezuela’s largest TV networks. I summarized these notes... Read more →
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Emersberger: Francisco Rodriguez answers some questions I asked about Venezuela
Venezuelan economist Francisco Rodriguez, formerly of Torino Economics, answered a few questions of mine about his country. He was the... Read more →
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Bolivia´s foreign minister says Mexico appeal to International Court ‘a mistake’ Bolivia’s YPFB strikes transition deal with Petrobras to extend... Read more →
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The UK Daily Mail: without the support of this newspaper – which has run a rabid propaganda campaign against Jeremy... Read more →
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Mohan: Patriotism, Boris Johnson and Brexit
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Wittner: A Boss is a Boss: Nurses Battle for Their First Union Contract at Albany Medical Center
A nonprofit employer is not necessarily a better boss than a profit-making one. That sad truth is reinforced by the... Read more →
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Khanlarzadeh: Anti-Imperialism As An Intellectual Trap
The US-led economic sanctions have caused a great deal of death and destruction in Iranian society, and the IMF policies... Read more →
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Mohan: Chief Rabbi Accuses Jeremy Corbyn’s Dog of Antisemitism
In an interview in the UK ‘Times’ today the UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has accused Jeremy Corbyn’s dog of... Read more →
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Front page of the Guardian Review I’m trying to get it: a US president who waged war against 7 Muslim... Read more →
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Khanlarzadeh: The Silenced Screams Fighting Impoverishment in Iran
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Santamaria: A brief memory of Angela Davis
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