A few years ago I read a book called "Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man" by John Perkins (2005). On the one hand I thought it described very well the globalist techniques for taking over the world using indebtedness and treacherous deep state cunning, but on the other hand I wondered if it was deliberately only exposing the chain of command up to a certain point.
While "American" corporations may really be running things, personally, I think they are not the top of the pyramid, but are themselves puppets being controlled by higher masters.
The higher masters are very good at obscuring who they really are, and it's unlikely that many people grasp the full picture. I tend to think of them as elite Freemason, Jewish, Satanist, Globalist, Khazarian, Ashkenazi families such as the Rothschild's, but undoubtedly there are are layers of understanding I'm not getting here, because there always are.
