hedges is bang on with his analusis that the media are now an arm of the corporate elite, moreover he's right to adopt the molin thesis about capitalism now having evolved into inverted totalitarianism.

the corporate elite believe that they do not need democrary except in the most perfunctorty form. they also are indifferent to the financial collapse of governments that they have bankrupted by the decades of campaign to pay no taxes. thr tax burden has devolved on the middle class and the poor and can no loger pay the costs of massive spending. this has parrallels to the french revolution when the upper classesgot out of taxes and the poor revolted when they were reduced to starvation.

america seeem to be heading towards a tax provoked collapse which the corporate elit--a few of whom are openly(now) funding the tea party movement , think they can control. maybe they can but they are openning a pandoras box when they tempt actual revolution after their movement produces no solutions.

hedgesis bang on.liberals have sold out their traditional role and are the main opposition to new ideas commign that might actually restore democracy comming from such people as chomsky and nader.

in any event there will be more trouble for a decade at least before there are realmattempts to restore democratic institutions, all the while the corporate elites continoe to despoil the enviornment and provoke a major world food shortage within a decade.