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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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

20 years ago; Tiananmen Square

by Jay McDonough



Students build a replica of the Statue of Liberty Photograph: /Sipa Press / Rex Features

Tomorrow marks the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.  Twenty years ago tonight, the Chinese authorities first sent Chinese Army tanks to disrupt protests in Tiananmen Square in Beijing that called for government reforms.  

The protests began with the April 15th death of a deposed reformist, Hu Yaobang.  Over the next seven weeks over 100 million people across China protested for the reforms Hu endorsed; political reforms to match the economic reforms the government had recently began.

By the time it was over, the June Fourth Incident (as it's known in China) had left between 200 and 800 dead and more than 7,000 wounded.  Subsequently, the Chinese government conducted widespread arrests to suppress further demonstrations and banned the foreign press from China.  

The Guardian has a photo essay commemorating the event.

4 June 1989: Dead civilians among mangled bicycles Photograph: /AP 5 June 1989: A man blocks a line of tanks heading east on Beijing's Changan Boulevard Photograph: Jeff Widener/AP



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