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, December 1, 2009

Grawemeyer Award: Trita Parsi!

by anderson

On a somewhat personal note, I'd like to congratulate NIAC president Dr. Trita Parsi for winning the Grawemeyer Award for "Ideas Improving World Order."
His treatise on Iran, Israeli, and US trilateral relations is a barn
burner -- barns, anyway, honed from the hardwood of geopolitical rivalry: Treacherous Alliance The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the U.S.  He shares the honour with past recipients, who include Mikhail Gorbatjov.







I had the great good fortune of meeting and conversing with Dr. Parsi a couple of years ago (he's on
the roll of course).  He is fiercely well informed, carries this across
with razor sharp articulation, and his passion for good relations
between the United States and Iran is near boundless.  Which rather
amazing considering that he studied under Fukuyama and Brzezinski, and
was under the wing of the Johns Hopkins� School for Advanced
International Studies, a not unaligned branch of the empire's
intellectual infrastructure.  But perhaps this more indicates that
there is some new thinking on the block, and Parsi would certainly
represent that.  Parsi is truly sincere in his efforts, and it was (is)
awful to watch the neocon
jackels attack his good efforts.  Gads, they are a knot of
hateful pricks.








Congratulations, Dr. Parsi.  May your genuine efforts see fruition, may the hounds be kept abay.



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