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, June 3, 2010

Gaza Freedom Flotilla First Person Accounts

By John Ballard



Laila El-Haddad supplies these links.

In support of the Al Fakhoora campaign�s mission of promoting education, our director Farooq Burney was traveling with a consignment of laptop computers bound for students in Gaza when the conflict occurred.


Fortunately, Farooq was unharmed during the attack that left nine activists dead and several dozen wounded. Following his detainment, Farooq was deported to Turkey and is now back in Doha.


Although Farooq was not physically injured during the raid, he was on the second deck of the Mavi Marmara as the commandos dropped onto the boat and he witnessed this tragic, violent confrontation up close. Farooq has been sharing his story about what really happened during the raid on the Mavi Marmara with the media.


You can read his chilling account here:



  • Reuters:http://bit.ly/94ZzMZ



  • ABC News:http://bit.ly/98OHaX



  • CBC News: http://bit.ly/99ZNOp



  • Globe and Mail: http://bit.ly/cjZUWr



  • CTV: http://bit.ly/9m5itO



  • Toronto Star: http://bit.ly/aveCyZ



  • The Peninsula: http://bit.ly/aVZwS1




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2 comments:

  1. ObserverJune 4, 2010 at 4:57 AM

    There was nothing "chilling" in any of those links. They simply confirm the videos, i.e. that the commandos were not firing but were swarmed.

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  2. Steve HyndJune 4, 2010 at 8:16 AM

    Hey Observer, see here.

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