New poll says Assange could win Australian Senate seat

Julian Assange’s bid for a seat in Australia’s Senate may not be just a stunt, with a new poll revealing 26 per cent of Australians consider themselves “likely” to vote for the Leaker-In-Chief.
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Senate hearing blasts Obama’s refusal to share details of drone program.

The White House refused to send a witness to the Senate’s first open hearing on the issue despite President Barack Obama’s vow to be more forthcoming about a counterterrorism weapon that has become a despised symbol of U.S. foreign policy in many parts of the world.
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Chile Senate votes to impeach education minister over university finacial shenanigans

The country’s student protest movement has held two years of marches to demand free education and an end to for-profit universities. Those fine bastions of higher learning seem to have been totally corrupted by greed. Who would have guessed?
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