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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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Sandmonkey -- "This is the Middle East"

By John Ballard


Found this at Chirpstory.


Blogger Mahmoud Salem, AKA @Sandmonkey, delivers a moving tribute to the Arab Spring in the wake of the triumphant seizure of Tripoli.



This is the middle-east..


This is the middle-east: the land of strong men & iron-willed women, who forge their destiny with sweat, tears & blood.


This is the middle-east: We were ruled by the inept, the corrupt & the crazy, killed many of us, and yet we are having the last laugh.


This is the middle-east: We have no problems dying for a cause, if it means our kids will have a brighter future. It's who we are.


This is the middle-east: We can be beat down for a long long time, but we are stubborn as hell, & we don't forget.


This is the middle-east: Centuries of conflict, colonization & occupation; Never afraid to fight but always dream of peace.


This is the middle-east: We hijacked the world. Moved you from your complacency. Reminded u that u are human & u have the right to live.


This is the middle-east: It's always been about here. It all begins here, & it all changes here. But rest assured, it will never end here.


This is the middle-east: We didn't chose to be born here, & we always pay for the sins of our parents. Ours is a generational story. ;)


This is the middle-east: We always seem to affect your world by what we do here. We apologize for any inconvenience. Well, not really!


So, if the idea crosses ur mind, please remember this: Don't try to impose ur rules on us; Rules do not apply here! This is the middle-east!


It's called the Middle-east. The Middle of everything. The Center of the world. The Eye of the perpetual shit-storm! ;) It's our curse!




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