A member of parliament says that he knows at least 2,000 people with US passports that are in Korea that may be violating laws by taking side jobs and was urged to investigate US passport holders.

The minister said he will get on it right away.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/09/jobs-report-revisions-september-2025-.html

Just want to draw your attention to this particular passage:

A fourth possibility is that our assumptions about firms’ preferences for certainty, economic stability, and policy credibility are simply wrong. Not only can some market players capitalize on trading volatility, but, beyond that, the rise of a plutocratic, personalist regime in the US may bolster Big Business’s confidence in its ability to secure tax cuts and favorable regulation and enforcement. In this context, the pervasive uncertainty and chaos incited by Trump becomes a small price to pay for access to the king.

Karl Marx proven correct for the billionth time.

The Israeli assassinations of Yemen's Prime Minister Ahmad Ghalib al-Rahwi and his cabinet members were no aberration. It fits neatly within the trajectory that Sanaa has chosen for itself: one of direct confrontation with the foundations of the western-imposed security order in West Asia, an order primarily built around protecting Israel.

Following the targeted killings on 28 August, which included at least 11 other ministers, thousands of Yemenis flocked to the capital’s Al‑Shaab Mosque (formerly named Al-Saleh Mosque) for a funeral that became a vow of defiance. Mahdi al‑Mashat, now heading the Supreme Political Council (SPC), declared, “Our revenge does not sleep, and dark days await you for what the hands of your filthy, treacherous government have wrought,” condemning the attack as a betrayal of red lines, and promising military escalation.

As Rahwi’s deputy, now de facto Prime Minister Mohammed Miftah, told mourners:

“We are facing the strongest intelligence empire in the world, the one that targeted the government – the whole Zionist entity (comprising) the US administration, the Zionist entity, the Zionist Arabs and the spies inside Yemen.”

Nearly two years into Israel’s war on Gaza, Yemen has forced its way into the heart of the regional confrontation as a central actor.

From within the constraints of the blockade, it has developed a powerful model of asymmetric maritime and missile deterrence. Sanaa has become a geopolitical chokepoint, recalibrating power balances in the Red Sea and Arabian Sea.

The rise of Yemen is not measured by the number of strikes or vessels targeted, but by its growing ability to dictate regional rules of engagement – something western powers backing Israel have failed to prevent.

From day one of the war on Gaza, the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) declared that their naval campaign would be tied to the fate of the besieged Palestinian enclave. This stance – far more political than tactical – allowed Sanaa to surface, for the first time in modern history, as a visible and consequential military power in the region.

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As what remains of liberal democracy is cancelled, Draper offers a summary of the situation that could be a snapshot of 2025:

Whenever democratic forms become inconvenient for ruling-class hegemony, making the state institutions of the status quo precarious, there is a tendency for the ruling class to sanction a shift to more authoritarian and despotic forms. The film of bourgeois development unwinds in a reverse direction: the freedoms that the liberal bourgeoisie once demanded are cut back; popular institutions are doctored so as to interpose a maximum of impediments between the institutions and popular pressures from below. Democracy so-called becomes … more and more a complex of sifting-screens to filter out popular elements and substitute devices of control from above; until, finally, if the term democracy is retained at all, popular elements are redefined out of it, and it is converted into a technical term for an authoritarianism purporting to serve the people whether they wish to be served up or not.

good article, if similar in scope (even has hudson vibes) (if someone thinks title is meh, give suggestions for change, cause i only got s**** state, but that's not much better)