Article author and newsletter editor, John M Repp, discusses the evidence for global warming, and the potential that solar energy holds for preventing the devastation continued use of fossil fuels would cause. Furthermore, the production of solar energy is becoming increasingly efficient, practical, and affordable. John shared information and insights from Bill McKibben’s new book “Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization”. (New York: W.W. Norton, 2025) Read the full article at https://wwfor.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/HereComesthe-Sun.pdf

by David Berrian Ras al-Auja is the last Bedouin community in the West Bank of Palestine. They get by from raising sheep and goats and doing just a bit of agriculture. There had been many other Bedouin communities in the area, but because of Israeli settler harassment and violence the families in those villages have had to flee. Ras al-Auja is the only Bedouin community remaining that has been able to resist ethnic cleansing up until now. The families in Ras al-Auja are trying to stay. However, they face almost daily incidents of harassment, trespass, humiliation, theft, and assault. Israeli police protect the settlers even when settlers are clearly committing violence on the Palestinians. Women are afraid to go out…

Cascadia Daily News, Bellingham, WA (posted on Aug 5, 2025) Editor, In 1945, only one country in the world, the USA, had the world’s supply of two nuclear bombs. “Little Boy” (the nickname given to the bomb) was dropped on Aug. 6 in Hiroshima and “Fat Man” (the nickname given to the other bomb) was dropped on Aug. 9 on Nagasaki. Over 210,000 were killed.     Thousands died from radiation poisoning later. Let’s remember this on Aug. 6. In 2025, there are nine countries with nuclear bombs and 15,000 nuclear bombs in the world. Both the U.S. and Russia have 6,000-plus each. The explosive yield of the Hiroshima bomb was 15,000 kilotons of TNT. In 2025, one nuclear warhead on a…

Stephen Zunes’s Keynote Address at the May 17, 2025, Western Washington Fellowship of Reconciliation Spring Assembly from an artificial intelligence (AI) transcription, edited by Cindy Cole and John Repp.  Available at https://wwfor.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/SA2025Keynote.pdf.  And if you’d rather see and hear Stephen’s talk, the YouTube video of Stephen’s talk and other parts of the Assembly is available;  see links at https://wwfor.org/spring-assembly-2025/.

Enough’s Enough in Magic Skagit: A small little town, empowered to do the right thing.  by Gene Marx.  On April 22, with nuclear powers trigger-loaded for confrontation in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, La Connor, Washington became the first municipality in the  state to join 86 other towns and cities in the U.S. to formally recognize the global nuclear threat and adopt a Back from the Brink resolution, endorsed and promoted by the local group No More Bombs.  Read more at https://wwfor.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/LaConnerResolution.pdf.

Newsletter Editor John M Repp starts this article with the question, ‘Why would I write an essay about our closest animal relatives and their dominance systems in a newsletter of WWFOR, a group that writes on its masthead that they want “to replace violence, war, racism and economic injustice with nonviolence, equality, peace and justice?” Good question!’  Read his article which touches on matriarchy, evolution, geology, meteorology, and more at https://wwfor.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/BobonosAndChimps.pdf.

A double-hitter post: First a letter to the editor by Jean Buskin (rejected by the Seattle Times) recognizing President Trump’s brilliant actions to end terrorist attacks on the U.S. Second a bonus cartoon showing the wondrous nature of AI. Both available here [ https://wwfor.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/JeanBuskinLetEdPlusCartoon.pdf ]

WESTERN WASHINGTON FELLOWSHIP OF RECONCILIATION SPRING ASSEMBLY 2025Saturday, May 17, 9 am to 12:30 pm PT on Zoom “Building a Nonviolent Movement in a Time of Chaos” Stephen Zunes, keynote speaker, see below  see wwfor.org/spring-assembly-2025 to register soon or call 206-789-5565 by David Lambert We are in governmental, political, and societal turmoil, when each of us is affected in so many different ways. Helplessness and a strong sense of loss of control is an understandable reaction to what some have termed an administrative coup by the Trump Administration. Yet, seemingly daily, there are court actions blocking actions by this administration, people massing together in angry street protests, communicating with the Congressional Representative and Senators in town halls, and writing letters,…

Public vigilance is needed to keep the threat of annihilation in check by Cindy Ann Cole, published in the print edition of Cascadia Daily News Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, p. A4 continued on p. A6 Cindy Cole is a mother, grandmother and a citizen peace and labor activist. She lives in Bellingham and has been working on the issue of nuclear weapons and the military for more than 20 years. 89 seconds to midnight!  The prestigious Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists sets the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight than ever before, accentuating the danger of possible nuclear war and climate catastrophe.  With wars raging in Ukraine and the Middle East and nuclear powers such as Russia, the United States and…

by John M Repp The Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution, 2nd edition (Albany, State University of New York, 1995) is a book written by Andrew Bard Schmookler. Here is the link to Schmookler’s latest website: https://abetterhumanstory.org/ and, in the next paragraph, a summary of his idea. In the book, he lays out a grand theory about human civilizations and how civilizations have been in power struggles since they first existed. Here is a direct quote from the book which explains his idea in a nutshell: “Imagine a group of tribes living within reach of one another. If all choose the way of peace, then all may live in peace. But what if all but…