Against Cancellation: Chomsky and the Cyclical Emasculation of the Left
March 13, 2026 Against Cancellation: Chomsky and the Cyclical Emasculation of the Left Arturo Desimone Facebook Twitter Reddit Bluesky Email Photograph Source: Cancillería del Ecuador from Ecuador – CC BY-SA 2.0 A decade after the razzia on the Ecuadorian embassy in London, we still inhabit the aftermath of the left’s abandonment of Julian Assange. Wikileaks was the global mainframe for publishing “leaks” by anonymous citizen-activists. That bottom-up phenomenon bypassed all state and partisan controls, often sparking mass protest and indignation against atrocities like the Iraq war. It has not been replaced. Sites like the Intercept and Dropsite, staffed by mostly Democrat-affiliated Americans, seem partisan by comparison. Instead, what has awkwardly replaced Wikileaks ten years on is Trump’s D.o.J’s file-dumping, with Pam Bondi announcing the next big “leak” or declassification of archives. The first wave of freed files concerned the assassinations of iconic Americans whose deat...
