We Are the Bad Guys

We Are The Bad Guys connects coups, covert operations, economic sanctions, and media narratives that justify U.S.

interventions, drawing on declassified documents, leaked cables, and respected scholarship to reveal a century-long strategy of empire-building.

Michael T. Lester, a former Marine combat pilot, exposes the gap between America's self-image as a force for freedom and the global perception of its actions as tools of dominance, including wars, surveillance, and trade manipulation.

The book forces readers to confront whether the U.S.

can lead the world while refusing to acknowledge its interventions' human cost.