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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Monday, August 25, 2008

Shariff Pulls Out Of Pakistan Government

By Cernig



The PML-N party of Pakistan, led by Nawaz Sharif, has left the nation's coalition government and gone into opposition. Shariff and Asif Zardari, leader of the ruling PPP, have been duelling over two issues - reinstatement of sacked judges and Zardari's wish to be president in the wake of departed ex-dictator Pervez Musharraf. Sharif's party has now put forward sacked Supreme Court chief justice, Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui for the post.



Pakistan is growing increasingly unstable and few observers trust Zardari to do other than try to use the presidency as an excuse to line his own pockets. The economy is tanking and violence is still rising while no-one in the civilian government has been able to rein in the military and Pakistan's shadowy intelligence agency, the ISI. The Indian sub-continent is still, as I described it in 2005, the most dangerous place in the world, no matter what febrile dreams of clashing great powers the neocons wish to conjure up for themselves.



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