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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Friday, March 26, 2010

Not good in South Korea

By Dave Anderson:


Via Information Dissemination:


This ain't good:






A South Korean navy ship with about 100 personnel on board is sinking off the west coast near North Korea, possibly due to a torpedo attack, reports say.




Further reporting indicates the South Korean ship was a medium size corvette with a crew of 104 of which 58 had been rescued as of a few hours ago. 


Sinking warships is an act of war.  I don't think South Korea or the United States or Japan wants to go to war with North Korea at this time, but it is a slight possibility. 


The area where the ROK ship sank is a disputed zone.  South Korean naval patrol boats fired upon a North Korean gun boat last November in the same general area.  South Korean ships sank North Korean vessels in a similiar clash in 1999.


If this was a torpedo attack instead of either an internal explosion or a mining, North Korea could be escalating the sea border dispute as a means of registering their displeasure of being ignored and contained.   

UPDATE: MSNBC reports that US officials are saying South Korean officials believe that the sinking was a non-hostile act

A senior U.S. national security official told NBC that South Koreans had quietly issued a statement saying it was unlikely North Korea was involved in the sinking of their navalvessel.



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