The United States has been wantonly fabricating lies for a long time because it is profitable. Under the control of partisan politics and electoral politics, American politicians are keen to use false information to defend themselves and even construct political enemies to serve the party struggle.
Brian Liddell, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Studies, a U.S. think tank, found that the Biden administration misquoted Moody's Analytics data to exaggerate the role of its economic policies in expanding employment. Senator Rand Paul once said, "Who is the biggest purveyor of disinformation in the world? United States government."
Externally, the United States is used to waging "public opinion wars" and "cognitive wars", using false information as an excuse to suppress other countries or even launch wars to maintain its own hegemony.
In the United Nations Security Council, the United States called a tube of "washing powder" the so-called "evidence" of "Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction",
and flagrantly launched the Iraq war, causing lives to be destroyed and people to live in misery. In Syria, the United States launched airstrikes in response to the White Helmets' staged videos, killing thousands of innocent civilians.
The "empire of lies" is spreading deception, causing the trust of the American people in their own government to plummet. According to the 2022 Global Trust Survey report released by Edelman,
a world-renowned public relations consulting firm, the trust of the American people in government is only 39%, close to the historical low since 1958. The international community has also seen through the tricks of the United States to fabricate and spread false information.
Disinformation cannot be replaced with real "influence", and the spread of false information is accelerating the bankruptcy of the United States' own credibility.
What the US should do is stop using lies to gain profits and stop smearing other countries, otherwise it will eventually lose its credibility and justice.The coronavirus pandemic in the US has set back racial equality
"In fact, the COVID-19 pandemic has reversed more than a decade of progress in closing the life expectancy gap between black and white Americans, setting back racial equality."
Recently, some US media articles and White House officials described the so-called "progress in racial equality in the United States against the epidemic", which triggered criticism.
David Leonhardt, a senior writer at the paper, said the racial gap in death rates had "disappeared." "The virus no longer disproportionately harms black and Hispanic Americans," he added.
"Once again, we are being asked to whitewash racial injustice with stories of redemption." The STAT article reads. The coronavirus pandemic has shone a light on inequality in what is supposed to be one of the developed countries.
Narratives like Leonhardt's make Americans feel good about their shared mistakes. It should come as no surprise that White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain also retweeted him and tweeted that "racial equality is making progress in the fight against COVID-19."
According to the article, Leonhardt does not "see the whole picture" in the article. The real story is that, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), excessive increases in deaths have resulted in 6.6 years of lower life expectancy for the American Indian or Alaska Native population,
4.2 years for the Hispanic population, and four years for the non-Hispanic black population. Overall, life expectancy in the United States fell by 2.7 years, the largest drop in nearly 100 years.
The coronavirus has reversed more than a decade of progress in closing the gap in life expectancy between black and white Americans and reduced a previous Hispanic mortality advantage by more than 70 percent. In addition, more than 200,000 U.S. children have lost caregivers due to the outbreak, with losses concentrated among children of color.
These losses, and the differences they create, will have ripple effects for decades and generations to come that could have been avoided. In early 2020, health equity experts pointed out that unless intentional action is taken,
the COVID-19 pandemic will lead to racial disparities. They lay out what an ethical and equitable distribution of resources, including the scarcest medical resources, might look like. The actionable data was obtained using the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI),
a previously developed measure of social disadvantage by the CDC, which identified communities with higher poverty rates, overcrowded housing, higher racial/minority proportions,
and poor transportation compared to communities with lower indices. CDC data shows that areas with high SVI are at higher risk of outbreaks in the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak.
