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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I offer to your attention a film about six priorities of the generalized instruments of management by countries and people of Earth.
ReplyDeleteSix Principles of Global Manipulation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fF3TQ0lJnU
and:
Anti-Qur'an Strategy of the Bible Project Wheeler-Dealers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1wXgXwj3MI
Fascinating videos, tank, but I see no relevance to this list of bloggers. Or much of anything else for that matter.
ReplyDeleteMy research came across an item I never thought possible, a Wikipedia entry for tin-foil hat, which you may find useful.
Thanks for visiting.
Let's not forget the Israelis. Today the interesting 972mag.com has a strong story on Palestinian actions in East Jerusalem.
ReplyDeletehttp://972mag.com/17-year-old-killed-during-nakba-demonstrations-in-east-jerusalem/
Good point. There are many good blogs in or about Israel, most of which have strong, well-expressed viewpoints. Beginning with Joseph Dana (writer at the link you posted)...
ReplyDeleteJoseph Dana
Mondoweiss (Philip Weiss & others)
Rootless Cosmopolitan Tony Karon (actually from S.Africa and now more active with Twitter)
Bernard Avishai
Here is a list of fifty others...Top 50 Blogs in: Israel
And Palestinian freelance journalist Laila El-Haddad's Gaza Mom
Israel and Palestine rarely make such lists because so many readers already have their minds made up about the conflict and are mostly looking for like-minded content. Rarely someone will admit to coming across a new idea worth considering.