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🇦🇺 ☠️ 🚨 CELEBRATED JOURNALIST AND JULIAN ASSANGE BACKER, JOHN PILGER DEAD AT 84

The celebrated Australian journalist and public backer of Julian Assange, John Richard Pilger died at age 84 today.

Pilger was a strong critic of American and Western Foreign Policy, and became well known as a strong backer of Julian Assange in his fight against U.S. and British imprisonment.

Pilger was known for his books, films and articles informing multiple generations on several critical issues such as the U.S. wars in Vietnam, Iraq and the U.S.'s aggressive moves towards China in his documentary, "The Coming War with China."

Pilger was a winner of a multitude of awards over his life, including the British Journalist of the Year twice, and was also awarded the Consortium News's Gary Webb Freedom of the Press Award.

In recent years, Pilger was a strong anti-Imperialist and anti-colonialist who became banned in Western Mainstream media and would only appear alternative and independent media.

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CONGRATULATIONS JOHN PILGER

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2023 WINNER Gary Webb Freedom of the Press Award Presented by Consortium for Independent Journalism Publishers of

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