UPDATED: WikiLeaks lawyer Jen Robinson said Lady Emma Arbuthnot, the judge presiding over Julian Assange’s extradition proceedings who is embroiled in a conflict of interest, will no longer be sitting on the case.Lady Emma Arbuthnot, the Westminster chief magistrate enmeshed in a conflict of inter Source: Arbuthnot Out as Assange’s Judge, Says WikiLeaks Lawyer Jen…

KW:  Massive fires raged at the campus of Hong Kong Polytech University, where anti-government protesters have holed up, pelting petrol bombs and fearing an imminent riot police raid amid clashes with authorities. The campus turned into a battleground between the rioters hurling Molotov cocktails and rocks, and police deploying tear gas and water cannon, as videos from…

KW: Leavers And Remainers Would Sacrifice Northern Ireland To Get Their Brexit Outcome, Reveals Poll YouGov survey shows both sides of the debate would be willing to see the break-up of the UK. Read in HuffPost UK: https://apple.news/AioMNEsvXSj-gM7kqBe4fRA

KW: Vladimir Putin once more showing global leadership? The power vacuum in Bolivia has brought the country to the edge of a Libya-style disaster, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned. As protests consume other Latin American countries, Putin urged leaders to use “common sense.” Source: Post-coup Bolivia anarchy ‘resembles Libya’: Putin urges ‘common sense’ amid Latin…

KW: Hong Kong – “Marginal Violence” Fails To Win More Protest Support After nearly six months of violent “protest” the U.S. supported anti-Chinese rioters in Hong Kong are switching into overdrive. Today there were more than 16 hours of continuous violent rioting by small groups of black clad “protesters”: Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has…

KW: More evidence of the close link to the coup in Bolivia and American involvement. MOA reports: The coup in Bolivia is devastating for the majority of the people in that country. Are their lessons to be learnt from it? Andrea Lobo writes at WSWS: Bolivian president Evo Morales of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party was forced…