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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.

Z Blogs

If Only the World Had a Vote....

Writing on behalf of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz and its contribution to this Friday's important ten-country survey, "What the World Thinks of America," Shmuel Rosner defined the two essential conditions behind the Israeli public's support for the curre... (More) Comments (0)

A Referendum on the Iraq Occupation

(from killingtrain.com) C. P. Pandya mentioned in the blog today about how mercenary companies are still making massive profits in Iraq. Bombings and massacres continue to happen on a daily basis in Iraq: today's by insurgents killed 4 American DynCorp ... (More) Comments (0)

A Referendum on the Iraq Occupation

(from killingtrain.com) C. P. Pandya mentioned in the blog today about how mercenary companies are still making massive profits in Iraq. Bombings and massacres continue to happen on a daily basis in Iraq: today's by insurgents killed 4 American DynCorp ... (More) Comments (0)

Beyond Demonstration Elections III

Just as there is a "standard set of cliches and patriotic symbols that are mobilized to justify U.S. intervention," Edward Herman and Frank Brodhead wrote 20 years ago in Demonstration Elections, so, too, there is a standard set of cliches and---if not qu... (More) Comments (0)

Beyond Demonstration Elections II

Are there any doubts that, some time around the end of this month (maybe a little later), after all of the ballots are transported to one of the eight counting centers around the country, and the final ballot tabulated---or, whether they are all sealed in... (More) Comments (0)

Another Trip Abroad and a Major Talk Transcript: Life After Capitalism – And Now Too

Friday I take off to Italy and then to Greece. The former trip is for a conference and, very oddly, an award. The latter trip is for introducing the Greek edition of Parecon: Life After Capitalism, giving talks, etc. I will try to write about both experie... (More) Comments (2)

Nader/Camejo 2004

According to Nader 2000 Leaders Organize To Defeat Bush, an Open Letter addressed to "progressives" of all sizes, shapes, and colors: This year, we urge support for Kerry/Edwards in all swing states, even while we strongly disagree with Kerry's policies ... (More) Comments (7)

Replying to Nader

[Nader wrote a response to a letter many, including Chomsky, signed. Noam was asked his reactions to Nader's criticisms of the letter and its authors.] The letter [Nader 2000 Leaders Organize To Defeat Bush](http://www.vote2stopbush.com) very briefly rep... (More) Comments (50)

Optimism since The Fateful Triangle?

What's happened since 1982 (when I wrote The Fateful Triangle) is a mixed story. Some of it is reviewed in the extended updated edition. In some respects, there has been some progress. Official Israeli policy in 1989 (a coalition government, Labor-Likud... (More) Comments (21)

Systems of Power and their Human Costs

In dealing with enemies (say, Pol Pot, or Maoist China), we properly attribute to them deaths caused by starvation, disease, overwork, etc., insofar as these result from institutional structures and political choices. That's quite independent of intention... (More) Comments (7)

Silence On Israeli Terrorism

Below is a letter from Hanna Kawas, Chairperson of Canada Palestine Association, to Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin regarding threats from the Canadian Foreign Minister against the UN Relief and Works Agency for employing Hamas members. Hanna points t... (More) Comments (0)

Beyond Demonstration Elections I

At last some good news from the colonies! The solidarity of the 15 presidential candidates who joined the document that came out of the meeting at the Kabul residence of Abdul Satar Sirat, protesting Saturday's national election in Afghanistan, "began to... (More) Comments (0)

Anatomy of a Canadian Behemoth: pt. 1

SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. is a Canadian corporation that is involved in violations of the UN charter, international law, workers rights, consumers rights, privatization and profit making. Here I am going to do a series of blog entries on the SNC-Lavalin Grou... (More) Comments (0)

John Winston Howard

Worse than I first thought---that's how the outcome of the Australian national elections now looks. A "stunning election result which will let [Prime Minister John Howard] put his conservative stamp on Australia," was how AAP Newsfeed described it, Howa... (More) Comments (0)

Duelferland

Among the hottest questions circulating between people who have dared to venture into Duelferland, and managed to find their way back out again, are two: Did the official Report of the Knight Errant to the Director of Central Intelligence on Iraq's Weapon... (More) Comments (3)

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