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News and funding is coming in on both sides of the long-heated debate around an initiative to require labeling of genetically modified foods and agricultural products.

Dean Baker: Almost all the people in either political party who are taken seriously in the current budget debate can put into either the denier or terrorist camp.

Here are five strategic lessons from the ongoing battle against GMOs in the US - lessons that may be applicable to a broad range of political issues.

Detroit is the battleground chosen by Wall Street to crush the last vestiges of American democracy by creating u201cthe template for direct corporate rule.u201d

Today, Ireland is under a different sort of tyranny, one imposed by the banks and the troika - the EU, ECB and IMF.

Promoters of this hyper-capitalism, who dominate the U.S. media debate, simply blame the poor for poverty.

Events since the ouster of Mohamed Morsi have been ominous for democracy and for Egypt.

The State Department has rebuffed efforts by foreign-born overseas workers to form unions, saying (controversially) in August that doing so would pose a threat to national security.

America's top execs don't have the time to party. They're too busy waging a corporate holy war against what may be the most promising check yet on executive pay …

The fossil-fuel industry has invested billions of dollars in propaganda - funding phony ‘scientists’ and bankrolling politicians - to confuse the public about the threat from global warming.