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, January 11, 2010

NB: Iran's Nuclear program

By Dave Anderson:

Just saw something interesting at Voice of America that seems to be a significant discontinuity with previous events concerning the Iranian nuclear program and intellectual capacity:

A bomb blast has killed an Iranian nuclear physics professor in Iran's capital, Tehran.



Officials say Dr. Massoud Ali Mohammadi, a nuclear scientist and
professor at Tehran University, died Tuesday when a bomb-rigged
motorbike exploded outside his home.

This is in contrast to this chunk of news that is a confirmation of a previous trend:

A U.S. nonproliferation hand confirmed Sunday that Iran had offered a
formal response in late December or early January. While the Iranian
fuel-swap response was said to have been conveyed by the highest levels
of the Iranian government, U.S. officials contacted Sunday gave no
public indication that they have any interest in the counter-offer...

Iran�s counter-offer also proposes sending the 1,200 kg abroad �
probably to Turkey � but in batches, starting with a first shipment of
400 kg. The offer seems to establish Iran�s willingness to export the
LEU out of the country, which would satisfy a key Western condition.

So the haggle is still on which is part of the previous trend, but blown up nuclear physicists are not part of previous trend.  Something to keep an eye on. 



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