How to stop the US-Israel war on Iran

Israeli political parties across the spectrum reject Palestinian statehood despite 159 countries recognizing it, creating international isolation as voters prioritize security and economy over long-term Palestinian solutions in upcoming elections.

Serbia’s student-led movement won parliamentary elections, ending President Aleksandar Vučić’s 14-year rule. The movement must maintain mass mobilization and resist pressures from wealthy elites and the EU to achieve genuine social change beyond institutional reform.

At 80, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won Brazil’s runoff election with 51.8 percent of the vote, defeating far-right candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and halting the region’s rightward political shift while reasserting Brazil’s sovereignty against U.S. intervention.

Today’s geopolitical tensions echo the interwar period, with Eastern Europe forming a contested shatterbelt region between rival powers. The article argues that current US-NATO-EU alliances facing Russia and China parallel historical great-power rivalries that preceded both world wars, with Ukraine occupying a pivotal position similar to interwar Poland.