hornberger presents a clear case that the empire is run by those descended from the ones who killed jfk though a bit obliquely in this essay, and also hints of more fun yet to come;

For those who are tempted to praise President Biden for supposedly standing up to the Pentagon and the CIA by announcing a pull-out of the remaining U.S. troops in Afghanistan, resist those temptations. There is no way that Biden, who has long been an integral part of the Washington, D.C., establishment, is going to buck the U.S. national-security establishment. Biden made the announcement because obviously the Pentagon and the CIA authorized him to make the announcement.As Michael Glennon, a professor of law at Tufts University details in his excellent book National Security and Double Government, it’s the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA who are in charge of the federal government and foreign policy. They permit the other three branches of the federal government to maintain the appearance of power, but the real power lies with the national-security establishment. They are the ones who are ultimately calling the shots on foreign policy.

After all, look at what Biden did at the same time that he announced the end of America’s forever war in Afghanistan. He announced sanctions on Russia, which has been America’s Cold War enemy since the end of World War II.

Can anyone think that this is just a coincidence? The Pentagon and the CIA know that time has simply run out on their forever wars. They also know that they now stand a good chance of losing terrorism as their big official enemy, one that has stood them well since the surprise end of the Cold War.

That was why they intervened in the Middle East after the Cold War ended. Having ostensibly lost Russia and China and “godless communism” as official enemies, they proceeded to go into the Middle East and poke hornets’ nests, with the aim of stirring up some anti-American terrorism........read more......