In The Big Lie, Thierry Meyssan conducts a survey on the United States’ political system abuse and on the founder act of Bush’s regime: the September 11th, 2001 attacks. The author questions, at the outset, the official US version on the events.
Then he deals with the setting up of an hegemonic military regime.

September 11th events appears as a real coup d'état within the leading democracy. In the name of the victims’ memory, the Bush administartion imposes its own will and destroys methodically all the opposition forces.

The Big Lie is a political masterpiece. Thierry Meyssan analyzes the power movement within the US apparatus and the vertiginous growth of the military budgets. He criticizes the suspension of the personal freedoms and the surveillance system of every citizen, set up through the USA Patriot Act. He reveals the hidden stakes of the War on Afghanistan and the secret operations of the " War on terrorism ".

He brings out the main lines of the new country’s expansionist policy, even before that the attack against Iraq was publicly evoked, since it was prepared long before. Translated into various languages, Thierry Meyssan's The Big Lie met an international success.

Several governments based on his analyses to define their own policy towards the new Washington’s regime.