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Denis Staunton

Denis Staunton

Deputy Editor

Denis Staunton is Deputy Editor of The Irish Times.

He previously worked as Foreign Editor. He has also worked as Washington Correspondent; European Correspondent based in Brussels and Berlin Correspondent.

Veteran US political activist and intellectual Noam Chomsky has warned that the European Union’s response to the economic crisis has left European democracy in a worse condition than that of the United States. Photographer: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times
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US linguist and political activist to give Frontline Defenders lecture in RDS, Dublin

Noam Chomsky. “The oil dictatorships, the countries that the West really cares about for obvious reasons, their uprisings have been suppressed very harshly and very successfully, with western support.” Photograph: Sascha Schuermann/AFP/Getty
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