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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Saturday, August 15, 2009

The Seminal and Brave New Films Announce a New Blog Fellowship on Afghanistan

By Steve Hynd


Congratulations to Newshoggers pal Derrick Crowe, who is the recipient of a new blog fellowship program devoted to the dangers of military escalation in Afghanistan. Derrick will be blogging on Afghanistan regularly (with great video from Brave New Films' Rethink Afghanistan project) as well as creating online resources for those who are against escalation and making connections with a broad coalition to promote better Afghanistan policy.


Derrick's bio at the HuffPo shows he has the experience for the post:



Derrick Crowe is a five-year veteran of Capitol Hill and a trained �Creating a Culture of Peace� facilitator. His writing has been featured on The Huffington Post, BraveNewFilms and AlterNet.

In Washington, D.C., Derrick served as communications director for U.S. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.). Prior to working in Smith�s office, he worked in communications for U.S. Rep. Charlie Stenholm (D-Texas), House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and the national office of the Children�s Defense Fund.

Derrick left D.C. once it became clear that Democrats opposed the President�s strategic decisions while making war rather than challenging the militarization of the national economy and the overall use of war to resolve international conflicts.


Derrick blogs at The Seminal and at his own blog, Return Good For Evil. Great stuff. you should check it out.



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