Inciting, planting and discrediting -- the top ten cases of the United States fabricating facts to a

Original title: incitement, planting and defamation -- at the beginning, the top ten cases of the United States fabricating facts to attack its opponents
Xinhua news agency, Beijing, October 13 - Title: incitement, planting and smear - top ten cases of the United States fabricating facts to attack its opponents at the beginning
Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhu Ruiqing, Song Ying, Liu Jian
Since the end of World War II, in order to compete for and maintain hegemony, the U.S. government has bribed media people to manipulate public opinion, fabricate facts to discredit their opponents, and fabricate excuses to launch war... It can be said that all kinds of "dirty tricks" and "bad tricks" have been exhausted.
"Robin plan": buying the media and manipulating public opinion
Buying media practitioners around the world and influencing public opinion by manipulating the media is the "Robin program" launched by the CIA during the cold war.
Carl Bernstein, a well-known American investigative reporter who opened the curtain in 1977, said that according to the plan, the CIA recruited many journalists to provide paid intelligence and instructed them to make up "false news". The CIA has admitted that the Robin program has bought at least 400 journalists and 25 large organizations around the world.
Today, the CIA is still keen on coercion and inducement to media people in order to obtain information and control public opinion. In 2014, wolfcott, a reporter of Germany's Frankfurter Zeitung, exposed the CIA's bribery and manipulation of journalists from other countries, forcing them to become American spies, and admitted that he was one of them.
"Northern forest" operation: self directed and self performed "terrorist attack"
In order to induce the people to support foreign wars, the United States did not hesitate to formulate its own "terrorist attack" plan - which sounds incredible, but the United States not only dared to think, but almost did it.
In 1959, Fidel Castro led the rebels to overthrow the pro american dictatorship in Cuba and establish a revolutionary government. Since then, the United States government began to adopt a hostile policy towards Cuba, and the United States did everything it could to subvert the Cuban regime.
The "northern forest" plan exposed in 1997 shows that the U.S. Department of defense and the Joint Chiefs of staff tried to ask the CIA or other intelligence departments under the U.S. government to launch "terrorist attacks" on U.S. military and civilian targets in the 1960s, so as to frame the Cuban government and create an excuse for the United States to send troops to Cuba.
The planned means of framing include hijacking and shooting down American planes, blowing up American ships and planning violent terrorist activities in American cities. The plan was eventually rejected by then US President Kennedy.
"Beibu Gulf incident": fabricating lies to escalate the war
Although the absurd script against Cuba was withdrawn, the United States used similar methods to trigger the overall escalation of the Vietnam War.
On August 4, 1964, then U.S. President Johnson made a speech, claiming that the U.S. warship was attacked by the torpedo boat of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in the Beibu Gulf that day, and the two sides "had an armed conflict". Subsequently, the US Congress passed the so-called "Beibu Gulf resolution", which gave Johnson the green light to order full involvement in the Vietnam War.
However, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam said at that time that there was no conflict with the United States. In recent years, most of the information released by the US side also admitted that the incident was provoked by the US side and deliberately exaggerated. In 2005, the U.S. National Security Agency issued a report admitting that there was "a great possibility" that there were no warships of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam near the U.S. warships on August 4, 1964. According to the archives of the U.S. Navy, two U.S. destroyers fired nearly 400 shells and five deep-water bombs on that day, but they were aimless. U.S. pilot James Stockdale was on a mission in the air that night. He recalled: "our destroyers just fired at imaginary targets. There were no torpedo boats there. There was nothing except the dark water and the United States' own firepower."
"Baby Box incident": concocting "tragedy" to incite emotion
"I saw Iraqi soldiers rush into the hospital with guns and break into the ward. There were 15 babies in the baby box. They took the babies out of the baby box and let the children die on the cold ground." on October 10, 1990, 15-year-old naira said in tears in the U.S. Congress. She claimed to be a volunteer in a hospital in Kuwait and witnessed the "terrible scene" after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
This testimony was widely reported by the American media, which ignited the anger of the American people. The saying of "saving the baby" strengthened the "humanitarian" color of the Gulf War. According to the BBC, then US President George H. W. Bush publicly quoted this testimony at least six times as a reason for the United States to send troops to participate in the Gulf War.
But after the war, the media exposed that naira's complaint was fraud, and even her name was an alias. Naira testified in Congress that the company was involved in the planning of Weida strategic consulting company, and the head of the company's Washington office was Craig Fuller, the former chief of staff of Bush Sr.
More ironically, the BBC pointed out that on the first day of the US military bombing of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the local power supply was interrupted. Panicked mothers had to take out the children still in the hospital incubator and take them to the cold basement for shelter. As a result, more than 40 babies died.
"Galaxy" incident: "piracy" is arrogant and overbearing
On July 23, 1993, the United States claimed that "there was conclusive evidence" to prove that China's "Yinhe" freighter transported "chemical weapons raw materials" to Iran, so it stopped it in the international waters of the Indian Ocean. China categorically denies this groundless accusation. thereafter, a joint investigation involving a third party concluded that there were no chemical weapons materials on board.
In the face of the facts, the US sophistry is still emerging one after another. First, it said that "the Chinese government deliberately released false information leading to this incident", then it changed its mouth to say that the "galaxy" may have unloaded or dumped its goods into the sea. Finally, it said that this operation was "based on trust in different intelligence sources, even though these information are false".
After the incident, international public opinion was in an uproar. Iran's "Islamic Republic" commented that the US government's creation of the "galaxy" incident was purely an "act of piracy". The Hindu newspaper said that the United States, the self styled "chief justice of the world", deliberately created trouble and humiliated itself.
"Strategic influence office": false propaganda to beautify the war
After the "9.11" incident in 2001, the US Department of defense established the "strategic impact office" responsible for overseas publicity. The agency beautifies the "war on terror" of the United States by publishing news to foreign media through institutions that have no obvious relationship with the Pentagon, and sending e-mails to foreign journalists or leaders to publicize the views of the United States and attack the governments of hostile countries. Soon after, some US media pointed out that the Pentagon sent many false messages overseas through these methods, including not only hostile countries, but also US allies in the Middle East, Asia and Western Europe.
Under the great pressure of public opinion, in February 2002, then US Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld announced the closure of the office, but at the same time claimed that the US military would not give up its wartime propaganda work.
William M. Arkin, a military analyst, wrote on the Los Angeles Times website that after the closure of the "strategic impact office", the U.S. government is still using public information control to serve its war objectives. In December 2004, the New York Times reported that the U.S. Department of defense was still discussing whether and how to manipulate information to influence the views of people in other countries on the United States.
"Downing Street Memo": distorting facts and making excuses
On May 1, 2005, the British Sunday Times disclosed a secret memorandum on the internal meeting of the British government, which recorded the "results presentation" made by Richard dilloff, the former head of MI6, after his visit to the United States in 2002.
Dillov said that at that time, the Bush administration was determined to take military action to overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq because it was suspected of supporting terrorism and possessing weapons of mass destruction. "Relevant intelligence is being adjusted accordingly", but the United States has hardly discussed the possible consequences of military actions.
The New York Times published a reflective article on the 10th anniversary of the outbreak of the Iraq war in 2013, pointing out that the outbreak of the Iraq war was not due to intelligence errors, but deliberate distortion, and the "Downing Street memorandum" is the best evidence. Facts have proved that Saddam's regime has no weapons of mass destruction and has nothing to do with the September 11 incident, and the United States still insists on invading such a sovereign country that does not pose a direct threat to it.
A tube of "washing powder": calling deer a horse in the Security Council
On February 5, 2003, at the UN Security Council meeting, then US Secretary of State Powell took out a test tube containing white powder and vowed that it was a "weapon of mass destruction" being developed by Iraq. This is a "famous scene" in which the United States openly swaggers and deceives on international occasions. Referring to the matter in 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin said: "the test tube with unidentified objects in the bottle may be washing powder."
With a tube of "washing powder" as evidence, the United States and its allies invaded Iraq, which plunged the country into long-term turmoil. About 200000 to 250000 civilians died in the war, of which the U.S. military directly killed more than 16000 people. Today, there are still about 25 million mines and other explosive remnants in Iraq to be cleared.
"White helmet" organization: counterfeiting and shooting for the tiger
In November 2016, the non-governmental organization "white helmet" issued a statement of apology under the pressure of public opinion, admitting that the previously released video of the organization's staff rescuing the wounded in Aleppo, Syria was taken. This is not the first time that the "white helmet" has discredited the Syrian government by video fraud, and it is obviously not the last time. On September 11, 2018, the Russian Ministry of Defense issued a statement saying that Syrian rebels staged another fake play of "being attacked by chemical weapons".
According to the media, the United States is an important supporter of the "white helmet" organization. In 2018, as Syrian government forces recaptured more and more territory, the United States negotiated with its allies to help the "white helmet" withdraw from Syria. In 2019, then US President trump publicly ordered us $4.5 million in aid to the organization.
Alexander domlin, an associate professor at the Russian Higher School of economics, pointed out that the United States is aware that it is gradually losing its global hegemony, so it is more likely to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries by funding non-governmental organizations.
"Clean network" plan: discredit opponents and maintain hegemony
On August 5, 2020, then U.S. Secretary of state pompeio launched the "clean network" plan, trying to suppress Huawei and other Chinese enterprises in the 5g field under the pretext that Chinese enterprises "pose a major threat" to American home security and citizen privacy. In order to peddle this plan, Pompeo and then deputy secretary of state clacci went to many countries to lobby.
However, according to the daily mirror of Germany, after years of review, the official institutions of the European Union, Britain and Germany have not found any obvious security risks in Huawei's equipment. On the contrary, security vulnerabilities can often be found in Cisco's equipment in the United States. The real reason for the United States to fabricate facts and discredit Chinese enterprises is that it is worried that China will dominate the global technology field in the future, thereby weakening American hegemony.
In fact, it is the United States that poses a threat to global cyber security. Tom Fudi, a British writer and international expert, pointed out that large Internet enterprises such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook are all American enterprises. They provide data to the U.S. government to enable it to establish a global monitoring network.