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, July 20, 2009

US Military Denounces Violations of International Law

by anderson


There once was a time, not so long ago, when diplomatic denunciations by American officials carried some heft on the international stage.  Indeed, they could be quite threatening, if laden in diplomatic gelatin.

Those days are over.  Duty-bound, Pentagon squirrels keep pretending, while everyone else is either stunned, snorting a knowing derision, or just plain laughing their ass off.

The U.S. military denounced the release of a video showing a soldier captured in Afghanistan, describing the images as Taliban propaganda that violated international law.



The video shows Pvt. Bowe Bergdahl in Afghan dress, being prompted in English by his captors to call for U.S. forces to be withdrawn from Afghanistan. ...



"We condemn the use of this video and the public humiliation of prisoners. It is against international law," said Col. Greg Julian, a military spokesman.

It is against international law. It is against international law. That's bad, right?


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  1. smintheusJuly 20, 2009 at 10:13 AM

    Hmm.... hasn't the Pentagon recently been involved in releasing photos and videos of its own prisoners, such as Saddam Hussein?

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