Pacific Call editor John M Repp wrote “A review of William D. Hartung and Ben Freeman’s ‘The Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us At Home’ (2025)” John starts with President Eisenhower’s famous warning about the military-industrial complex and takes us through points from the book bringing the situation to the present. Click here to read John’s article. [Full URL https://wwfor.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/reviewTrillionDollarWarMachine.pdf ]

This article starts with a 4-part map of Israel and Palestine showing the Israeli takeover of land. The text begins History did not begin on October 7, 2023.Too many people in the United States do not know that most of the people in living in Gaza are people or descendants of people who were pushed off their land by the Israelis in 1948, a period called the Nakba which is Arabic for catastrophe. Many more were pushed off their land in 1967 in the course of the six-day war won by Israel. Click here for the article. [Full URL https://wwfor.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IsraelExpanding.pdf ]

. Newsletter Editor John M Repp wrote an appreciative review of the 24 lecture course “Ancient Civilizations of North America” offered by The Great Courses series. John’s article gives us a glimpse into what he learned about the diverse civilizations that existed for thousands or years before Europeans came to North America, and the accomplishments in astronomy, agriculture, and crafts. Click here to read the article. [full URL https://wwfor.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/greatcivilizationofNAmerica.pdf ]

It’s time for change, after decades in our current office, WWFOR is moving in August. In the years since we moved here and got one of the first computers things have changed and technical changes mean that almost everything we do does not need a physical office anymore, so we can continue with all our activities such as Peace Activist training, email updates and, of course, the Pacific Call. But first we must deal with all the things in the office; an amazing amount of stuff can accumulate when you have had an office for a long time. Already we have had two work parties and have made good progress with the disposal of our books (around 300) and videos…

Newsletter editor John M Repp reviewed “The Future is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land” jointly written by a Palestinian and an Israeli. Both authors had lost close relatives to the ongoing violence, and they began working toward reconciliation between the peoples. Click here for the review. [full URL https://wwfor.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/ReviewTheFutureIsPeace.pdf ]

Newsletter Editor John Repp has done it again, with 8 pages chock full of interesting articles and relevant illustrations. It contains the first announcement of our May 30 Spring Assembly an article by John about the Illegal U.S. War on Iran a book review of a book on Militarism by William Hartung and Ben Freeman an article about Israel’s expansionist actions an article by John about ICE and resistance in Minneapolis an article about the national debt several letters to the editors of newspapers a review of a course on ancient civilizations of North America an article about WWFOR moving to a virtual office and a number of illustrations and tidbits! You can read or download the pdf version of…

David Lambert chaired the planning committee for WWFOR’s Fall Conference. His article gives a summary of the event. Click here to see article. [Full URL https://wwfor.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2025FallConference.pdf ]

[Note by web-poster Jean B: This article was published before the Jan. 3, 2026, U.S. attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of President Maduro; now over 100 people in small boats in the Caribbean have been killed; the attack on Venezuela killed an estimated 90 people; several oil tankers have been seized; and 2 kidnapped Venezuelans are in a U.S. prison.] by John M Repp Is the Trump administration preparing for a war against Venezuela, or are they just threatening them in order to get something?  The Trump Administration’s repeated strikes in the Caribbean, near the Venezuelan coast, have shocked the world. They claim they are destroying boats running drugs, but the usual treatment for such a crime is to stop…

Click here to see the last page of the January 2026 Newsletter. [Full URL https://wwfor.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/lastpageofPC2026.pdf ]

by John M Repp The chart on the next page shows us the number of nuclear weapons that could be delivered in a first strike. The total amount of weapons was reduced after the Nuclear Freeze campaign of the 1980’s, a mass movement initially organized by Randall Forsberg. On June 12, 1982, the largest peace rally in U.S. history was held in New York as the Second United Nations Special Session on Disarmament was happening. There were approximately a million participants in that rally. The chart looks like a mountain peak with the high point in the early 1980’s. After that there were negotiations between Reagan and Gorbachev, and the numbers came down. At the October 2025 meeting of Northwest Against Nuclear…