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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Thursday, May 22, 2008

Instahoglets May 22 2008

By Cernig



It's one of those link-dump round-up thingies everyone does when they've collected more story links than they can write whole blog posts about.



- Main Core. Just because you're paranoid...: "a database of Americans, who, often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic, might be incarcerated. The database can identify and locate perceived �enemies of the state� almost instantaneously.� � One knowledgeable source claims that 8 million Americans are now listed in Main Core as potentially suspect."



- If Chalabi is now suspected of being an Iranian agent and Chalabi's lobbyists are now working for McCain...should we maybe ask which nation's national security McCain's tough talk is supposed to bolster?



- Noah at Danger Room implies what I've been thinking for a while now - after Basrah, Sadr City and Mosul, will Napoleon Maliki turn his sights on the Tony Sopranos of the Awakening next?



Cakewalk! War Party shill Patrick Clawson tells Haaretz that an attack on Iran won't be the big risk of regional blowback every other (non-neocon) analyst says it will be. But he also admits Iran's missiles are crap, and no real threat to Israel.



In Lebanon, the feuding factions have negotiated a truce that hands more political power to the military and Hexboullah while ignoring Bush's rhetoric on "appeasement". And it seems Israel doesn't take Bush seriously either, as it enters negotiations with Syria. If it quacks like a duck...



How dare you! Accredited White House journalist Eric Brewer of Raw Story raised his hand to ask a question - and Perino told him off like a strict schoolma'am. I bet that doesn't happen to Bret Baier.



Book Abuse seems to be the in thing this week. Protests over a US sniper using a Koran for target practise in Iraq lead to violence and deaths in Afghanistan - and in Israel, Orthodox Jews are burning copies of the New Testament.



Travis Sharp, Military Policy Analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, has a close look at a 1988 John McCain essay on operations in Bosnia and notes that McCain was against spending billions on a mission where the military were hostages to political progress before he was for it.



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