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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Saturday, April 9, 2011

Sarrah Goes to Tahrir

By John Ballard


I takes a lot of courage for a young woman to venture into an environment as unsafe as that of Cairo.  Here is a Twitter account beginning here.
I am in awe of this brave young woman.
Click on thumbnails for larger images.


 My mother is getting frantic. I'm sorry to say this, but Santa Claus doesnt exist, and the army DID attack peaceful protesters.


think wisely. think wisely. think wisely. think wisely. think wisely. think wisely. think wisely. think wisely. think wisely. think wisely


No matter what happens, I will stay peaceful. I am a civilian, its my right to protest peacefully. And this is what ill do.


By the way, be prepared for people saying " there was a curfew" to justify what the army did!


ok people they need FOOD & WATER. remember food as in energy bars w 3agwa msh lazm sandwtchat kofta ya3ni.


Ok! Heading to #tahrir 3 hours ago


So the army just issued a statement, saying ppl in tahrir are NDP thugs.


If you're at home right now and didn't spend the night in tahrir please shut up.


Tahrir Square update: Egypt army denies firing live rounds but 2 men die from bullet wounds after army disperses protesters - Reuters


S8bmov[1] In #tahrir. Barb wire. Smoke still in the air pl roaming around


Burnt vehicle in #tahrir. Still burning http://yfrog.com/h2s8bmovj


3gquiw[1] Protesters protecting their "tent" with barb wires in #tahrir. They will not leave http://yfrog.com/gy3gquiwj


Blood on the ground. Protesters have surrounded it with barbed wire for evidence #tahrir http://yfrog.com/gzbokudj


Thhql[1] A crowd chanting down with tantawi on camera to some channel #tahrir http://yfrog.com/h7thhqlj


A scattered couple thousand in #tahrir square. Small numbers worry me


Dohr prayer in #tahrir in abcense of Muslim Brotherhood members. They sold out, of course. http://twitpic.com/4io1we


How is it that the military uses force to disperse protesters while #mubarak is having breakfast on the beach? #tahrir


9o9mj[1] Another vehicle now used to barricade the square http://yfrog.com/h09o9mjj 48 minutes ago


I am now by the museum barricade with some flool 7ezb watany #flool


A man explaining to his son the situation in #tahrir http://yfrog.com/gyv8cgdj 41 minutes ago
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Lots were just running after someone. Don't know what it is


#tahrir ppl praying in the square. http://yfrog.com/hssx5dvj


Ppl were running after a lawyer asking what he can do to be #mubarak 's defendant. Not very smart, are we?
V8cgd[1]



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