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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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Shministim -- Israel's Young Conscientious Objectors

By John Ballard



As an American Conscientious Objector I am putting up a post about these brave young people in memory of the late Leila Abu-Saba.


The new Shministim class of 2010



A new group of Shministim has formed. Their letter of refusal, has already been signed by 88 young Israelis.



Learn more about the Shministim of 2010 here: http://www.shministim.com/



Join the Shministim 2010 facebook group.



Read what Haaretz has to say about them:
12th graders tell Netanyahu: We refuse to serve in IDF (Haaretz, Oct 12, 2009)




If you read Hebrew, you an check out these additional news items:




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Shministim refusers of 2009: We will not take part in the oppression (Ynet, Oct 12 2009)



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The Shministim letter: The IDF is an occupation army (Walla, Oct 12, 2009)




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88 young people to Netatanyahu: We refuse to serve in the IDF (Haaretz, Oct 12, 2009)



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This is not the time nor place to discuss conscientious objection but I have a lot to say about that subject. As long as there is no military draft the point is moot anyway. America seems to be well on the way to developing a professional warrior class. Our grandchildren will have to come to terms with the result. It gives me quiet but sad satisfaction to know I will be gone by then. Modern Israel illustrates what happens when a country adopts the other extreme.



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