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, March 17, 2011

Quick Links Thursday, March 17

By John Ballard


No time to precis this morning. But here's what I'm reading.
Also doing homework before going to work and looking forward to hearing Nicholas Kristof speak tonight.


?Interview of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with Steve Inskeep of NPR


?Interview of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with Shahira Amin of Nile TV


?Remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at meeting with Staff of Embassy Cairo


? Israel fears sushi shortage after quake
No, this is not a spoof.


?Quartet 'giving up hope' of renewing Israeli-Palestinian talks
Quartet representatives say differences between Israel and Palestinians are far too wide to get negotiations back on track; since Itamar attack, Netanyahu refraining from speaking of need to advance peace process.
(If you don't know of the Itmar attack you have some reading to do.)


?Evan Hill Twitter feed
Al Jazeera in English online  producer.


?'Cool It,' Turkey Tells Iran and Saudi Arabia


?Egypt's proposed constitutional amendments
Believe it or not, there is already a media campaign in Egypt urging people to vote "NO."


?Clinton is thronged in Tahrir Square


?�Panties and Bras Included�
Inspired by the march to �Take Back the Night� for International Women�s Day in Beirut, Lebanon. Dedicated to my good friend Zee who�s always pushing me to write myself into words. By "Lynn"  March 9th 2011.
RT by Mona Eltahawy.



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