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Monday, July 16, 2012

Pepe Escobar: ''Blood on the (Bain) tracks''

From Asia Times


''This is the moment everyone was waiting for in the 2012 US presidential campaign; the hardcore drawing of first blood.

Whatever one's judgment on Nobel Peace Prize winner and warmonger US President Barack Obama, technically this is an absolute masterpiece of political advertising. It deserves an Oscar for sound editing alone.

It may be over the top - as it strives for maximum, compressed, Hellfire missile political impact; but the ad's charges are fundamentally correct. Republican presidential contender and corporate cyborg Mitt Romney was involved in practices that outsourced jobs and contributed to enlarge the ranks of US unemployment. There couldn't be a more sensitive theme in a US electoral year.''

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