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, February 2, 2010

A Bad Day For Iran Warmongers

By Steve Hynd


It's a bad day for the "Real Men go to Tehran" crowd. Earlier today, the release of the 2010 National Intelligence Estimate confirmed what intelligence officials have been saying all along - Iran seems to want to develop the capability to build a nuke at short notice - what Japan, for instance, already has and is sometimes known as a "virtual deterrent" - rather than an actual weapon.


And now President Ahmadinejad has publicly said Iran accepts the UN's nuclear fuel swap deal.



President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced the decision in an interview with state Iranian television.


He said Iran will have "no problem" giving the West its low-enriched uranium and taking it back several months later when it is enriched by 20 percent.


The decision could signal a major shift in the Iranian position on the issue.


...Said U.S. State Department spokesman Gordon Duguid of the proposal: "There has been some discussion about details, but the deal is the deal and the Iranians need only to tell the IAEA they are prepared to take it and we can move forward from there."


Oh dear, poor warmongers.



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