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'''The Independent''' is a UK [[newspaper]] started in 1986.
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==Questioning of the UK Government's 7/7 Narrative==
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In 2006, ''The Independent'' published on  article which, while supporting the broad outline of the {{on}} of the [[7/7 London bombings]], also remarked that "doubts remain over the official account". It quoted [[Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed]] and observed that “There are some bewildering gaps in the [government’s] account of 7/7... even the nature of the [[explosives]] used in the bombing is unclear.”<ref>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/77-one-year-on-why-did-it-happen-the-big-questions-still-need-answers-406351.html</ref>
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==Support for Bilderberg Official Narrative==
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In June 2015, it echoed the [[Bilderberg]]'s {{on}} that "There are no minutes taken of the meetings, and no reports are made of any conclusions reached. No votes are taken and no policies proscribed."<ref>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/3-things-we-know-about-the-secretive-bilderberg-group-and-1-thing-well-never-know-10307054.html</ref> This unsourced claim (as one commenter asked "''If it's so secret and no journalist or anyone else can gain access, how the hell does the op-ed know?''") is directly contradicted by a statement of [[Willy Claes]] (who attended in 1994) who stated on on [[Belgian]] radio that each participant is given a report and they are "considered to use this report in setting their policies in the environments in which they affect".<ref>http://www.theguardian.com/world/blog/2010/jun/09/bilderberg-charlie-skelton-2010</ref>
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==Ownership==
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In 2017, [[Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel]] bought a a 30% stake in the Independent.<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40762906</ref>
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Latest revision as of 20:20, 7 March 2023

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"Boy, is Ivermectin working"[1]
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The Independent is a UK newspaper started in 1986.

Questioning of the UK Government's 7/7 Narrative

In 2006, The Independent published on article which, while supporting the broad outline of the official narrative of the 7/7 London bombings, also remarked that "doubts remain over the official account". It quoted Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed and observed that “There are some bewildering gaps in the [government’s] account of 7/7... even the nature of the explosives used in the bombing is unclear.”[2]

Support for Bilderberg Official Narrative

In June 2015, it echoed the Bilderberg's official narrative that "There are no minutes taken of the meetings, and no reports are made of any conclusions reached. No votes are taken and no policies proscribed."[3] This unsourced claim (as one commenter asked "If it's so secret and no journalist or anyone else can gain access, how the hell does the op-ed know?") is directly contradicted by a statement of Willy Claes (who attended in 1994) who stated on on Belgian radio that each participant is given a report and they are "considered to use this report in setting their policies in the environments in which they affect".[4]

Ownership

In 2017, Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel bought a a 30% stake in the Independent.[5]


 

Employees on Wikispooks

EmployeeJobAppointedEndDescription
Borzou DaragahiInternational Correspondent2018Of interest by the Integrity Initiative
Dominic LawsonJournalist20062013Exposed as a MI6 media asset

 

Documents sourced from The Independent

TitleTypeSubject(s)Publication dateAuthor(s)Description
Document:Allan Francovich ObituaryobituaryAllan Francovich28 April 1997Tam Dalyell"He was, above all, a seeker after truth, wheresoever that truth might lead." - An appreciation from a friend.
Document:Megrahi ObituaryobituaryAbdelbaset al-Megrahi21 May 2012Tam DalyellThe day after Abdelbaset al-Megrahi died, Tam Dalyell opines that he was not the Lockerbie bomber.
Document:Pictures resurface showing US Secretary John Kerry and President Assad dining in Syria togetherArticleBashar al Assad
Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack
John Kerry
Asma al-Assad
Donald Trump
Teresa Heinz
Khan Sheikhun
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
3 September 2013Heather SaulJohn Kerry's volte-face: Syria is an essential player in bringing peace and stability to the region (2009). President Assad is a "thug" like Adolf Hitler (2013).
Document:Robert Fisk visits the Syria clinic at the centre of a global crisisWikispooks PageTheresa May
White Helmets
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
Douma attack
17 April 2018Robert Fisk"A Syrian colonel I came across behind one of these buildings asked if I wanted to see how deep the tunnels were. I stopped after well over a mile when he cryptically observed that 'this tunnel might reach as far as Britain'. Ah yes, Ms May, I remembered, whose air strikes had been so intimately connected to this place of tunnels and dust. And gas?"
Document:The CIA plot to kidnap or kill Julian Assange in London is a story that is being mistakenly ignoredArticleCIA
Julian Assange
Mike Pompeo
Jamal Khashoggi
Cancel culture
1 October 2021Patrick CockburnJulian Assange and Jamal Khashoggi were targeted because they fulfilled the primary duty of journalists – telling the public what governments want to keep secret
Document:Those who flaunt the poppy on their lapelsarticleRemembrance Sunday
Red Poppy
5 November 2011Robert FiskWhy Robert Fisk stopped wearing a red poppy
Document:We are the war criminals nowArticleTony Blair
George W. Bush
Osama bin Laden
War crime
Donald Rumsfeld
Taliban
Northern Alliance
The Great War for Civilisation
Afghanistan/2001 Invasion
29 November 2001Robert FiskGeorge W. Bush says that "you are either for us or against us" in the war for civilisation against evil. Well, I'm sure not for bin Laden. But I'm not for Bush. I'm actively against the brutal, cynical, lying "war of civilisation" that he has begun so mendaciously in our name and which has now cost as many lives as the World Trade Center mass murder.
Document:Whistler against the wind - Gerald JamesprofileArms-to-Iraq
Gerald James
18 June 1995Cal McCrystalA profile of Gerald James, former Chairman of Astra Holdings and his battles against his appalling treatment by a corrupt system intent on hiding the dirty secrets of the Arms-to-Iraq affair.
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