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, May 1, 2012

Too long to Tweet and too complicated for a blog post...

By John Ballard



The global power of modern criminal enterprises...makes Sicilian gangsters and their New World progeny look like a cottage industry. And anyone who doesn't believe there is a symbiotic relationship between modern criminals and transnational corporations simply hasn't done their homework.



Warning -- Naked self-promotion here.


That came from a comment I put up yesterday at a somwhat arcane link over at 3QuarksDaily.
Readers who want to plow through the reference are welcome to check it out, but I won't be offended if you simply roll your eyes and skip it.
I just like the way that part came out and wanted to hang on to it for future reference. And besides, only a handful of readers see my Tweets. (It's like trying to discuss a dry topic in a crowd while watching a sports event.)



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