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, December 17, 2009

Pak Opposition Demand Zardari Resignation

by anderson

Musharraf's 2007 immunity law has been overturned by the Supreme Court. 


And it didn't take long for Pakistan's lawyer's, knowing full well the
self-serving criminal nature of Zardari, are once again leading the way
in demanding
Zardari's resignation, just as they did against Musharraf.  Indeed,
Pakistan's lawyers are proving to be one of the most potent forces for civil action
in demanding adherence to the rule of law.  With the lawyers against
him, and just like Musharraf, suspicion arises that Zardari's days are
likewise numbered.








Pakistani opposition groups are calling for President Asif
Ali Zardari to step down from office following a court ruling striking
down an amnesty decree protecting him and other senior officials from
facing charges of corruption.


The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the National Reconciliation
Ordinance, which grants amnesty to some 8,000 senior politicians,
bureaucrats and businessmen, conflicts with Pakistan's constitution.


The ruling opens the door for the reopening of all corruption and
criminal cases pending against the president's close aides and
political allies.


Mr. Zardari is immune from prosecution while in office, however his
opponents plan to challenge his eligibility to hold the post.








Members of the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party have called on him to resign on moral grounds.



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