About the Book:
The Deep State Warmongers Aren’t Going To Like This Book! GOOD!
The Deep State, the executive arm of Global American Military Empire, has been gaslighting the people into one phony war after another… Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine… for far too long. Had enough?
Now New York Times bestselling author Charles Goyette delivers a take-no-prisoners account of personalities and political deceit, false flags and fake news, coups and Cold Wars, and inconceivable blunders. The CIA’s arming Jihadists in Syria to fight fundamentalist militias armed by the Pentagon may be good for war profiteers and those sowing global chaos, but it has been a brutal drain on the well-being of the American people.
THE EMPIRE OF LIES: Fragments from the Memory Hole goes beyond policy, revealing the dark role a strange psychological malady, COMBAT ENVY, plays in the lies warmongering public figures tell of their personal derring-do. It exposes the Lapdog Press that replaced the Watchdog Press, even as the world was taken for a second time to the brink of nuclear Armageddon.
One by one Goyette refutes the Empire’s talking points, for example that the Empire is needed to keep the sea lanes open, and he describes “Imperial Overstretch,” the syndrome of collapsing Empires reacting militarily to their decline, becoming trapped in cycles of bankruptcy.
This account of deadly folly, moral failure, war profiteering, and ruthless manipulation of the public is a fearless warning that systemic dishonesty is the inescapable nature of Empires. As Mark Twain said, “America cannot have an Empire abroad and a Republic at home.”
This ABC Books author interview was broadcast on KSGF Mornings with Nick Reed on Thursday, February 05, 2026.
