Anti-American Sentiment Surges in Russia as US Officer Taunts From Perch at Fox News

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By Mikhail Klikushin |
08/25/15 8:00am

Since the beginning of the year, Putin’s propaganda industry, feeling the economic crisis, has had to tighten its belt. The Russian Information Agency TASS announced a 25 percent staff reduction and 20 percent salary cut for its employees. Rossiyskaya Gazeta, which holds the monopoly on the official publications of new laws and government decrees, fired 10% of its staff. Similar examples are innumerable, as Bloomberg reported in January.

Despite all the economizing, the level of anti-Americanism in Russia has reached its all-time high, fluctuating from 70 percent to 73 percent of negative and strongly negative feelings towards the US this year, according to the respected polling institution Levada-Center.

The possible explanation—somebody else is doing all the heavy-lifting for the Kremlin propaganda machine, helping it to save millions and outsource the humongous task of proving to the Russians that the West started the final, doomed-from-the-start crusade against Mother Russia.

One of the big helpers has been the Fox News channel and a handful of its analysts. (Yes, one can watch Fox News in Russia, as well as CNN, EuroNews and unlimited number of other TV channels the world knows).

This year, Fox News analyst retired US Major General Robert H. Scales saved a lot of money for the Kremlin propaganda machine. And now he’s saving even more.

Read more at http://observer.com/2015/08/anti-american-sentiment-surges-in-russia-as-us-officer-taunts-from-perch-at-fox-news/#ixzz3jrlr8pUX

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1. Anti-Russian Sentiment Surges in US as Government Pours Money Into Ukraine Crisis.

Since the beginning of the year, Obama’s propaganda industry, despite the economic crisis, has not had to tighten its belt in the least.

he possible explanation—somebody else is doing all the heavy-lifting for the White House propaganda machine, helping it to save millions and outsource the humongous task of proving to the American people that Russia started the final, doomed-from-the-start crusade against Ukraine.

One of the big helpers has been the New York Times and a handful of its analysts. (Yes, one can read the New York Times in all of the US, including California).