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, June 11, 2009

Kyrgyzstan Reiterates Manas Base Closure

by anderson

58AB0678-645D-4EE2-8F5E-2D9F4F0CBF7A_w393_s It appears that Obama has been unable to persuade the Kyrgyz government to allow US forces to continue to use the Manas air base as a logistics and resupply base, with Foreign Minister Kadyrbek Sarbayev plainly stating that, �the decision to abolish the agreement on the military air base, Manas, has been made, and there is no turning back from this."

Kyrgyzstan appeared to rebuff on Thursday an appeal by President Obama for closer cooperation as Washington sought to retain an American air base that provides a key staging area for the war in Afghanistan.



In February, President Kurmanbek Bakiyev gave the United States six months to leave the Manas Air Base , a decision that was seen as influenced in part by Russia, which pledged a $2 billion loan to the impoverished Central Asian country.



On Thursday, Foreign Minister Kadyrbek Sarbayev said there were no plans to reverse that decision, despite the appeal by Mr. Obama, who, according to the Kyrgyz government, sent a letter to Mr. Bakiyev seeking greater cooperation between the two countries. American officials in the region had no immediate public comment on the Kyrgyzstan government�s statement. ...



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