*Which writers influenced your thinking?
*As a teenager I read people who wrote from a leftist perspective. Naomi
Klein’s/No Logo
<https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/11/no-logo-naomi-klein-20-years-on-interview>/,Robert
Fisk
<https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/nov/03/robert-fisk-obituary>’s
book on Lebanon,/Pity the Nation/,Noam Chomsky
<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/noam-chomsky>, etc. I was reading a
lot ofJohn Pilger <https://www.theguardian.com/profile/johnpilger>and
Seymour Hersh. Later, most of them turned out to hate me. They seem to
think I’m part of a global conspiracy against Syria to re-run the
invasion of Iraq. It’s a funny old world. Hersh was once a great
journalist. But he has a dismissive attitude towards online material,
has previously said he doesn’t use the internet. There are 200 videos of
the2013 sarin attacks
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/16/syrian-chemical-attack-sarin-says-un>[by
the Assad regime on a Damascus suburb]. To ignore them is arrogant and
blinkered. Liberal leftists of a certain age often suffer from horrible
bigotry. It robs Muslims in the Middle East of agency and authenticity,
as victims or as perpetrators.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/feb/20/eliot-higgins-people-accuse-me-of-working-for-the-cia
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