When I wrote "I need you to stick around to the next post in the series, which would most likely be about the intersection between foreign policy and the economy. Trade policy, anyone?" to close The 2018-2019 flu season is experiencing a second wave, an update to 'Flu killed 80,000 Americans last year, including 183 children, the CDC reported, so get a a flu shot', I though I would be embedding a John Oliver video. Instead, the intervening week provided me a story even more on topic for updating U.S. leaving Iran nuclear agreement pushes U.S. oil price above $70 plus driving update for May 2018: Pearl, the sixth most read entry of the eighth year of this blog. Watch VOA News report Iran's Revolutionary Guard Joins Hezbollah, IS, al-Qaida On US Terror List.
The Trump administration announced Monday that it is designating Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its Quds Force as a foreign terrorist organization. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Iran's military is joining the list of terrorist groups it has been sponsoring. Labeling the IRGC a terrorist organization will allow the United States to impose further sanctions on Iran and cripple the businesses that finance the military. VOA's Zlatica Hoke reports.Treat this as an official news release from the U.S. Government, as VOA stands for Voice of America, a government funded news service intended for foreign consumption.
As someone who praised the Iran nuclear deal and thought (and still thinks) leaving it was a bad decision, I looked for a critical response and found it in CBS News' "Unprecedented" move to label Iran's Revolutionary Guard a terrorist group.
The Trump administration is ramping up its maximum pressure campaign against Tehran as it has moved to designate the elite Iranian military force as a terrorist group. CBS News State Department reporter Christina Ruffini joins CBSN with more.This could increase the risk for U.S. troops in an already dangerous region, especially after Iran retaliated by labeling U.S. Central Command a terrorist organization. It could also increase tensions enough to start a war, something I started worrying about on this blog back in 2011. I don't think that will happen, but as I wrote eight years ago, stranger things have happened.
It turns out that this story has an angle about Trump's corruption and hypocrisy. The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC revisted that in Iran Military Unit's New Terror Label Ignores Past Donald Trump Business.
Rachel Maddow revisits the past reporting by the New Yorker's Adam Davidson on Donald Trump's recent business relationship with Iran's Revolutionary Guard, and the irony of the Trump administration's new declaration that doing business with the Revolutionary Guard is "bankrolling terrorism.""Orchid-shaped" — now that's a good euphemism. At least the building didn't have rose-colored glass. That would have been too much.
Follow over the jump for how this entry and another on the U.S. leaving the Iran Nuclear Agreement got their page views.
As I wrote above, U.S. leaving Iran nuclear agreement pushes U.S. oil price above $70 plus driving update for May 2018: Pearl posted May 12, 2018 was the sixth most read entry of the eighth year of this blog. It earned 7020 raw page views by the end of the day on March 20, 2019. It was the also the most read entry during May 2018 with 6834 default and 6865 raw page views. It had ~70 raw page views before being shared to the Join the Coffee Party Movement Facebook page at 9:00 P.M. EDT on May 12, 2018. It earned 1744 page views in the first two hours and ~5800 page views in the first 24 hours after being shared and continue to earn readers through the end of the month and beyond. Unfortunately, it could not pass Trump thinks Sanders is the right enemy to enter the all-time top ten even though it had more page views than Update to 'Suit against John Oliver and HBO dismissed,' top post for the seventh year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News, which did make the top ten earlier in the year.
The 32nd most read entry during last year and the 31st most read actually posted during the eighth year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News was Vox on U.S. withdrawing from Iran nuclear agreement helps update doom and risk for the seventh year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News posted May 10, 2018 with 2343 raw page views. It was also the seventh most read entry of May 2018 but the third most read entry actually posted that month with 2208 default and 2248 raw page views by the end of the month. This entry had 80 default and 84 raw page views before being shared to the Join the Coffee Party Movement Facebook page at 9:00 P.M. on May 10 2018. It earned ~1490 page views in the first two hours and ~1900 page views in the first 24 hours after being shared.
The next entry in the series will feature a John Oliver video on Brexit to update all of the top posts from last year about John Oliver. That should be tomorrow. Stay tuned.
Previous posts in this series
- Happy Birthday to the blog and Nowruz Mubarak (Happy Persian New Year)!
- Statistics for the eighth year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News
- 'Frontline' updates 'Facebook knows your political affiliation and much more,' the top post of the eighth year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News
- CBC News updates proportional representation, topic of the second most read posts of the seventh and eighth year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News, plus voting machines
- Wonkette reacts to its Media Bias Chart placement, an update to 'A comparison of two measures of media bias shows readers and viewers respond to both ideology and quality'
- The 2018-2019 flu season is experiencing a second wave, an update to 'Flu killed 80,000 Americans last year, including 183 children, the CDC reported, so get a a flu shot'
- DOOM for the fourth year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News
- Vox on U.S. withdrawing from Iran nuclear agreement helps update doom and risk for the seventh year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News
- The 2018-2019 flu season is experiencing a second wave, an update to 'Flu killed 80,000 Americans last year, including 183 children, the CDC reported, so get a a flu shot'
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