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“To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, . . .”

‚Thus begins Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s famous quote defining the function of the political state. The surveillance states already in formation in Britain and the U.S. are nothing new. Only its technology and its capacity for totality. But this is a key consideration. No more escaping across the county line or hiding out in the hills. Everywhere and anywhere today is a social panopticon. 

In earlier times of political opposition to the rulers, the names of rebels would be written in ink in a large ledger and later, on 3X5 cards, following reports from observers, undercover agents, and provocateurs. This was often sufficient to keep track of those who threatened the rule of capital and the state. Enough to often fill prisons and dungeons with those who refused their duty as loyal servants of the system.‘

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/04/26/files-on-the-fifth-estate/

https://www.fifthestate.org/

#FifthEstate #Surveillance #FBI #Technology #Repression #State #UK #USA #Europe #Antireport

“To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, . . .”

‚Thus begins Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s famous quote defining the function of the political state. The surveillance states already in formation in Britain and the U.S. are nothing new. Only its technology and its capacity for totality. But this is a key consideration. No more escaping across the county line or hiding out in the hills. Everywhere and anywhere today is a social panopticon. 

In earlier times of political opposition to the rulers, the names of rebels would be written in ink in a large ledger and later, on 3X5 cards, following reports from observers, undercover agents, and provocateurs. This was often sufficient to keep track of those who threatened the rule of capital and the state. Enough to often fill prisons and dungeons with those who refused their duty as loyal servants of the system.‘

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/04/26/files-on-the-fifth-estate/

https://www.fifthestate.org/

#FifthEstate #Surveillance #FBI #Technology #Repression #State #UK #USA #Europe #Antireport

Surveillance before the internet
Fifth Estate advocated civil rights, opposition to the War on Vietnam and legalisation of marijuana; one of 500 so-called “underground radical publications” between 1965-1970. The publications had a combined circulation of four million all of which condemned the American system, its wars, and its empire.

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/04/26/files-on-the-fifth-estate/

https://www.fifthestate.org/

#AntiWar #COINTELPRO #Detroit #FifthEstate #Surveillance

Surveillance before the internet
Fifth Estate advocated civil rights, opposition to the War on Vietnam and legalisation of marijuana; one of 500 so-called “underground radical publications” between 1965-1970. The publications had a combined circulation of four million all of which condemned the American system, its wars, and its empire.

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/04/26/files-on-the-fifth-estate/

https://www.fifthestate.org/

#AntiWar #COINTELPRO #Detroit #FifthEstate #Surveillance

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hadon/115406977473453181

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Person at NoKings 2 holding sign that says, "First they came for the media then ... we don't know what happened after that"

#alttext #PressFreedom #FifthEstate

#NoKings #ICEout #NazisRaus

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hadon/115406977473453181

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Person at NoKings 2 holding sign that says, "First they came for the media then ... we don't know what happened after that"

#alttext #PressFreedom #FifthEstate

#NoKings #ICEout #NazisRaus

Wow, big surprise. You're saying that the #media giants in the #US, all bought up by the #EpsteinClass, are colluding to prevent the obvious link between #mossad and #Epstein?

I'm shocked at such a turn of events - flabbergasted, even - that the #FifthEstate being centrally controlled by #oligarchs would result in them burying the lead.

Opinion | The #Mainstream Media Still Won't Follow Up on the Epstein-#Israel Connection | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/media-epstein-israel

Wow, big surprise. You're saying that the #media giants in the #US, all bought up by the #EpsteinClass, are colluding to prevent the obvious link between #mossad and #Epstein?

I'm shocked at such a turn of events - flabbergasted, even - that the #FifthEstate being centrally controlled by #oligarchs would result in them burying the lead.

Opinion | The #Mainstream Media Still Won't Follow Up on the Epstein-#Israel Connection | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/media-epstein-israel

#Democrat #TX politician Jasmine Crockett is now making #headlines for her attempts to avoid bad press by throwing #media orgs out of her events, and having reporters removed by law enforcement.

https://www.semafor.com/article/02/24/2026/texas-senate-candidate-jasmine-crockett-escalates-her-war-on-the-press #TXpolitics #FifthEstate

https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/417-winter-2025/alternatives-to-lives-of-misery/

#fifthestate #generalstrike #nokings

And here's a list of #journalists killed during the #GazaWar - which just illustrates that killing journalists is a sport for the #IDF at the behest of the #Isreali government.

Can't have a #FifthEstate if you keep assassinating reporters 🧠🧠🧠

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_the_Gaza_war

And here's a list of #journalists killed during the #GazaWar - which just illustrates that killing journalists is a sport for the #IDF at the behest of the #Isreali government.

Can't have a #FifthEstate if you keep assassinating reporters 🧠🧠🧠

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_the_Gaza_war

https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/416-spring-2025/mutual-aid/

#MutualAid #RuiPreti #FifthEstate #Empathy #Solidarity

#Billionaire Amazon head #JeffBezos business decision to put thumb on #editorial scale and forbid #WashingtonPost opinion section from making a #PresidentialElection endorsement has cost #newspaper multiple editorial resignations and a quarter million subscribers in less than a week.

More news via the #WaPo

https://wapo.st/48qkHgs #GiftLink #FifthEstate #Media

#Billionaire Amazon head #JeffBezos business decision to put thumb on #editorial scale and forbid #WashingtonPost opinion section from making a #PresidentialElection endorsement has cost #newspaper multiple editorial resignations and a quarter million subscribers in less than a week.

More news via the #WaPo

https://wapo.st/48qkHgs #GiftLink #FifthEstate #Media

Two New David Rovics Albums. Internet trolls dog his every step, but he keeps on singing for peace and liberation- by Barry Stringer. Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024 a review of Notes from a Holocaust: 20 Songs, 2024 David Rovics
https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/415-summer-2024-2/two-new-david-rovics-albums/

#davidRovics #Palestine #solidarity #singersongwriters #fifthestate

Two New David Rovics Albums. Internet trolls dog his every step, but he keeps on singing for peace and liberation- by Barry Stringer. Fifth Estate # 415, Summer 2024 a review of Notes from a Holocaust: 20 Songs, 2024 David Rovics
https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/415-summer-2024-2/two-new-david-rovics-albums/

#davidRovics #Palestine #solidarity #singersongwriters #fifthestate

So glad to be here, based almost exclusively on the fact @wordnik are here. Also, #decentralised #socialmedia and pioneers of the #fifthestate are my heroes, thank you for setting this up, @Mastodon 🙏 💚 🦋

#Pretendian #Buffy #SaintMarie #Indigenous #Cree #Canada #FifthEstate #Saskatchewan
https://youtu.be/eMsqCWNCUc4?si=fcb6tjTRqnsB6lVq

#Pretendian #Buffy #SaintMarie #Indigenous #Cree #Canada #FifthEstate #Saskatchewan
https://youtu.be/eMsqCWNCUc4?si=fcb6tjTRqnsB6lVq

This page originally appeared as the March 27, 1975 #FifthEstate and was found throughout the city pasted on the doors of churches on Easter morning and stuffed in #DetroitNews boxes. (Produced by the EAT THE RICH GANG.)

https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/271-april-1976/easter-canceled/

@cbctor_mirror
For those familiar with #Brampton city politics;

Is the Gang of 6 at it again?

Or is this #Polievre rat-f*cking to change the channel after #CBC #FifthEstate revealed the cheating that denied #PatrickBrown a chance to become #Conservativeparty leader?

#Ontario #Canada #Cdnpoli

Oh for the love of... *CMON!*

Dear media #streaming #websites. If you post #media on a regular basis.. say *weekly* and you don't allow your #epsidoes to be filtered and sorted by date, year, season and in #*chronological order* I `don't like you`.

Yes, #CBC #Gem, Im talking to you. That #FifthEstate episode from a week ago that is all the kerfussle. Is it the second last episode from the top in season 49? can I sort by air date? NO. `useless`

Your web design is bad and you should feel bad!

#YouTube blocks access to #CBC #FifthEstate story on killing of B.C. #Sikh activist at demand of #India

#Modi is a #ChickenShit xenophobic murderer.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/india-fifth-estate-video-story-1.7142721?cmp=rss

Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%, report says.

‘Polluter elite’ are plundering the planet to point of destruction, says #Oxfam after comprehensive study of climate inequality

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/20/richest-1-account-for-more-carbon-emissions-than-poorest-66-report-says

#capitalism plundering and polluting the planet for #profit
#carbonemissions cause #climatechange

#eattherich image from #fifthestate