Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Sunday, April 27, 2008

Turkish Troops Mass On Iraq Border

By Cernig



As I wrote yesterday, now that the Spring thaw is here it's time for the next major episode in Turkey's war against PKK seperatist terrorists in Northern Iraq. There are reports of troop buildups and engagements designed to deal with the PKK on the Turkish side of the border.

After launching fresh air strikes on Kurdish rebel targets in Iraq, Turkey is keeping up the pressure. Military sources say vast numbers of troops have been fighting PKK separatists, this time on the Turkish side of the border.

Some 15,000 soldiers were said to be battling rebels close to the frontier and up to 8,000 in Bingol in southeast Turkey. There, at least two troops have been killed.

Since the end of a land offensive against Kurdish fighters based in northern Iraq in February, Turkey has stepped up operations. It has carried out a series of air attacks in the neighbouring country, targeting the PKK, which took up arms to try to establish an ethnic homeland in southeast Turkey.

The latest, launched on Friday night and early Saturday, was described as the biggest round of air strikes this year.

And once they've swept their own side of the border, securing their rear...



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  1. Tom MApril 27, 2008 at 5:17 PM

    Turkey gets to do this,and have some news articles about dealing with the PKK, but what about Iran on the northeast border? Kurds are also making incursions into Iran and they are (?) supported or ignored by the US.

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