Opinion -- According to a nationwide study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a greater number of U.S. Americans died (approximately 65,000) from drug overdoses last year than were killed during the course of the Vietnam War. At the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, President George W. Bush ordered the
Late-Stage Capitalism: Denying the Imperium of Death
The tens of thousands of American deaths from drug overdoses are a measure of the hopeless desperation left behind by the soul-starving socio-economic system of late-stage capitalism.