20th Anniversary of WikiLeaks - The Trust Fall: Julian Assange GoFundMe update (2026)

For two decades, the empire has been desperately trying to shove WikiLeaks - the genie of raw, unvarnished truth - back into its bottle. In two days - on the 4th of October - we celebrate twenty years of WikiLeaks, honouring the rebellious spark that permanently shattered the ruling class's monopoly on reality.

To celebrate this milestone, we must strip away the corporate media propaganda and reckon with the tectonic shifts triggered when classified depravity met public outrage. Here are twenty ways that WikiLeaks and Assange changed the world:

1. Assange showed us that one man could challenge the most powerful empire on the planet. He didn't use bombs, just the sheer force of raw truth bleeding out into the ether for all to see. It is a vital, piercing reality.

2. WikiLeaks demonstrated that the most dangerous weapon against a warmongering empire isn't a missile, but a secure drop-box and courageous whistleblowers willing to risk it all. We've learned you cannot fight a behemoth with polite petitions.

3. WikiLeaks proved that true journalism requires adversarial defiance, effectively rendering the traditional, access-driven corporate media obsolete. We do not need their polished lies.

4. WikiLeaks permanently altered that power dynamic by proving cryptography can be used to protect the powerless instead of shielding the powerful. There is a strange poetry in flipping the script on our overlords. As Assange noted: "Knowledge has always flowed upwards, to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves," the platform systematically dismantled the entrenched barriers of official secrecy.

5. WikiLeaks proved that the "rules-based international order" is merely a rhetorical shield used by powerful nations to violate international law with absolute impunity.

6. Cablegate pulled the curtain back on global diplomacy, revealing that the US State Department operates less like an embassy and more like a global mafia enforcing corporate interests. It’s a dodgy club.

7. The publication of the NSA intercepts targeting European leaders proved that the empire has no allies, only vassals and surveillance targets.

8. The 'Vault 7' releases exposed how intelligence agencies weaponised our own smart TVs and phones against us, turning every living room into an unchecked panopticon. We willingly bought the devices watching us.

9. The 'Global Intelligence Files' unmasked the shadow-CIA firm Stratfor, proving that private intelligence contractors are perfectly willing to spy on peaceful activists for corporate cash. Spooks are perfectly happy to moonlight for the highest bidder.

10. WikiLeaks exposed the insidious nature of financial blockades, proving that when Visa and Mastercard cut off donations, corporate banks act as direct enforcement arms of the state. In 2010 the choked off all funding to the publisher overnight without a single legal charge, simply because Washington snapped its fingers.

11. WikiLeaks gave a masterclass in anti-colonialism by releasing the 'Guantanamo Bay files', documenting the systemic abuse of uncharged detainees in a gross violation of international human rights. The cages in Cuba remain a gaping wound on the world.

12. The 'Yemen files' laid bare the reality of a devastating proxy war, exposing how Western arms actively fuelled a humanitarian catastrophe while diplomats looked the other way. Children starved for corporate profit. We were gobsmacked by the callousness.

13. The organisation showed the world that anti-war activism must be grounded in primary source documents, replacing emotional pleas with undeniable, leaked evidence of state violence. You cannot argue with a massive spreadsheet of innocent corpses.

14. WikiLeaks shattered the myth of the benevolent Western empire by bringing to light the 'Collateral Murder' video, proving that the military-industrial complex treats civilian lives like a twisted video game.

15. The 'Afghan War Diary' permanently stripped the heroic veneer off the occupation, exposing how coalition forces routinely covered up civilian casualties and outsourced torture. The propaganda surrounding the endless occupation was a meticulously crafted mirage.

16. By publishing the 'Iraq War Logs', Julian Assange provided the definitive, unvarnished death toll of a neo-colonial invasion built entirely on manufactured lies. The entire invasion was a grotesque, brutal stitch-up from the very beginning.

17. The formidable WikiLeaks archive has evolved into an indestructible, digital rebel library of Alexandria holding over ten million classified documents that can never be erased by imperial censors. It has become an invaluable resource for scholars, students, lawyers, historians, journalists, and the public fighting for emancipation.

18. The global campaign to free Assange redefined international solidarity, uniting hackers, journalists, anti-war activists and decent, caring, awake people in a massive resistance of millions of people against imperial state power, giving birth to a truly beautiful community.

19. Over twenty years, WikiLeaks has cemented the enduring truth that peace and human rights can only flourish when the war machine is stripped of its primary fuel of absolute secrecy. I have no doubt the legacy of this project will outlive the empires that tried to crush it.

20. Having survived the empire's maximum-security torture cells, Julian is now fully recovered, proudly announcing that he is back, and with Stella carrying a brand new baby on the way, they prove that love is an ultimate act of defiance against a sterile, death-obsessed state. Their flourishing family stands as living proof that the tyrants failed to extinguish the human spirit. It will be nothing short of riveting to see what Julian does next on the global stage.

And here we are in 2026, standing at a new precipice, watching a colonial machine orchestrate a horrific genocide in Gaza. As autonomous AI systems and sterile targeting algorithms are deployed as merciless weapons of slaughter across Gaza and Ukraine, the digital fog of war is being deliberately engineered to suffocate our access to truthful information. We seem to be hurtling toward a dystopian world where silicon-driven death squads operate in total darkness, leaving humanity drowning in a manufactured sea of algorithmic deception.

Now, armed with two decades of undeniable proof of elite criminality, the real question is: What are we gonna do about it? We must tear the blood-soaked gears from their engines of death, lock arms, and fiercely demand a world where humanity finally eclipses empire.

To truly comprehend why the global power architecture persecuted Julian, urge folks in your orbit to watch 'THE TRUST FALL'. The film acts as a searing torchlight, tearing down the media fabrications that whitewash foreign slaughter. Awakening our collective consciousness breaks the psychological grip enabling barbaric colonial massacres.

We offer this uncensored project worldwide without paywalls. Grassroots backing directly keeps our independent, anti-imperialist project breathing, helping us pay it forward to those who need the truth most.

Thanks to the financial support of donors, we were able to show THE TRUST FALL for free to 1,274 people in the past week. Let's keep waking people up and driving this momentum forward.

THE TRUST FALL is more than a film. It is a peace movement.

In solidarity,

Kym Staton
Writer and Director
THE TRUST FALL