(The Recently-Deceased) John Pilger Was A Brilliant, Perceptive, Top-Notch Investigative Journalist - Par Excellence...

But like every other human being who has ever lived he was fallible like the rest of us, with feet of clay and verily a heart in which both good and evil resided...

And so one day he too will 'meet his Maker'...

And so I can only hope he - like every other 'garden variety sinner' - made his peace with the Peacegiver and Peacemaker before that Day (all too soon) arrives...

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