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Blogs are a familiar feature on the internet - where users post content in an accumulating manner, with comments, and search options, etc. They facilitate expression and exploration, and via attached comments, also debate and synthesis.


Reading and
Navigating Blogs

Our blogs are quite powerful. Each writer can post, as is typically the case. Sustainers who have the option can also post, however. All Blogs appear in the blog system, and sometimes also in content boxes the top page of ZNet - and always via the left menu of the top page - and can be found via searches, etc.

Commenting on blogs follows the blogs, attached at the bottom, and blog comments, like all others, are also visible in many places that show comments including in the forum system. In addition, the entire blog system gathers content for 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, as well. Thus, 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.
  • One can look at blogs for particular Groups, too.

All this is easily done using the left menu. Searches allow even more variables and refinements.


Creating Blog Posts

If you are a Sustainer with permission, and are logged in, you will see a link in the left menu for you to post a blog - and you can use that to post one, and then tag it various ways (such as with a topic or place, or a group tag), and once you do, it is in the system with you as the author.

You can also use the console button to the left to post a blog - anytime and from anywhere in the site, as long as you are logged in.

Meanwhile, enjoy the blogs - and, by the way, if you are a Free Member or a Sustainer with a ZSpace page, of course you can put one or more content boxes on it, pulling blog links of any sort you may want to filter for, for example, by you or by your friends or by others - and by topic, about places, for groups, etc.

Blogs

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Paul Street's Blog

Web Address: http://www.zcommunications.org/zspace/paulstreet
Bio:   Paul Street is an independent radical-democratic policy researcher, journalist, historian, and speaker based in Iowa City, Iowa, and Chicago, Illinois.  He is the author ... (More)

All Street Blogs

A Comeback for Chattel Slavery?

This just off the wire: Disturbing plans from the Obama adminiStration revealed in a remarkable and extensive interivew with a White House wide... (More) Comments (0)

Capitalism's Faillure and "the So-Called 'Underemployment' Rate"

Capitalism's utter failure even to provide employment cannot be explicitly mentioned in the corporate media but here (pasted in below) are some ugly facts -- including a real U.S. unemployment rate of 17 percent: See the Associated Press report pasted in ... (More) Comments (2)

"Peace Prize? He's a Killer"

"Obama has only brought war to our country. Peace prize? He's a killer."... (More) Comments (0)

My Resoc Interview

Paul Street's Resoc Interview... (More) Comments (2)

Essential Reading

This (linked) essay by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson is essential reading - the best short summary/critique yet from the actual Left on the foreign policy of Re-Brand Obama. Note that it is also a devastating critique of what passes for progressive,... (More) Comments (0)

Every Day is Capital Day

The United States' "Labor Day" (yesterday) must have seemed ironic to the nation's expanding army of unemployed, ther vital human labor power deemed un-profitable and therefore unworthy of even minimal ransom-payment by the masters of capital. ... (More) Comments (0)

June 2008 Reflections on the Coming Deceptive Red- and Black-Baiting of Obama

I thought I would paste in the following two paragraphs (below) from the June 2008 preface to my book Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics. They seem rather germane to current events and to the difficulty involved in trying to criticize the ne... (More) Comments (0)

I'm Debating (On) Obama

I debate a liberal (and fellow Paradigm) author on the Obama phenomenon/presidency....Come on down if you are in or around Chicago. My opponent is a former student of Obama's at the University of Chicago Law School. ... (More) Comments (0)

Well Done, Paul Krugman

Nice Krugman column in New York Times today (pasted in below below). I remain miltiantlly pro-single-payer (pro- HR 676) and otherwise to Krugman's radical portside but this column is well done --- nicely crafted and on point. Note the comment on healt... (More) Comments (3)

A Washington Drug Deal and Reflections on Corporate-Managed Democracy

How mind-bogglingly pathetic is this (see linked story on drug industry's advance deal with corporate regime Democrats Barack Obama and Max Baucus)? I am reminded of Arundahti's Roy comment about western "representative democracy": "too much [corporate] r... (More) Comments (3)

"Big Business Is Even More Unpopular Than You Think"

I just found this essay (pasted in below) by Robert Weissman in the endnotes of William Greider's book Come Home, America(2008). It contains remarkable numbers on how much we supposedly "center-right" (United States of) Americans hate (i) big corporations... (More) Comments (0)

Honeymoon Fades: National Obamalust Lessens in Intensity

Barack Obama ratings fall as polls show honeymoon may be over: Barack Obama's honeymoon period appears to be coming to an end in America as polls have shown his ratings have fallen to their lowest point yet... (More) Comments (2)

IWW Union Struggle at Grand Rapids Starbucks

See theYou Tube link (one word ago and below) on the current IWW union struggle and illegal firing at Starbucks Coffee (a supposedly "socially responsible employer") in Grand Rapids, Michigan. ... (More) Comments (0)

"It's Just Ridiculous...Which is it?"

The quote of the day on Obama's health care plan belongs to Rowena Ventura. “You see,” she said, gesturing at Mr. Obama on the television (during his press conference last Tuesday night), “he’s saying he wants to continue private insurance, but th... (More) Comments (5)

Taibbi on Goldman Sachs Profits

Read this Matt Taibbi article on Goldman Sachs recent profits --- a useful piece of demystification on the whole...... (More) Comments (2)