October 29, 2025

LIST of Articles DWF NEWS 10/29/25

 Subject line: Trump's Next Move: Declare a "National Emergency" and steal 2026

#1 If President Trump is a pathological liar and narcissistic psychopath, he will jump at the chance to steal the next election

Officials Plot to Have Trump Declare National Emergency in 2026, Raising Fears He May 'Hijack' the Next Election

Stephen Prager          Common Dreams

America's Cowards in Power are letting Trump rise again

#2 'Utter Moral Failure': Critics Aghast at New Reporting That Shows US Elites 'Scared of Crossing Trump'

Brad Reed            Common Dreams

The Plot to Turn America Fascist Never Died

 #3 General Smedley Butler Said "No Way!" to a Business Plot for a Fascist Takeover of the U.S.

AI Copilot     DWF NEWS

The best idea has yet to be discussed - the Earth Constitution Solution

#4 The UN Has Lost Its Balance. Can the World Restore It?

Alexander Bobrov, Ph.D.       The Intel Drop

#5 UN 109 Charter review: Amend it, or replace it with the Earth Constitution Solution

Why the UN Needs a Charter Conversation, Not More Power Struggles

Kerstin Leitner & Jordan Ryan       PassBlue

#6 It's time to scrap the old system and replace it with the Earth Constitution

UN's First Committee Report on Disarmament, AI and Space

Ray Acheson          Reaching Critical Will 

WORLD PUBLIC INTEREST JOURNALISM

DWF NEWS has good news and bad news. The bad news is the possibility that President Trump has a serious personality disorder bordering on the psychotic. He may need a psychiatric consultation. Consider that Trump may be a narcissistic psychopath with features including a lack of conscience, no remorse, and pathological lying.

There is also a question of borderline psychosis: Trump's ego may get in the way of making rational decisions, a problem found in individuals with Bipolar disorder (manic type). This type of mood disorder may display symptoms such as needing little sleep, being talkative with flight of ideas, big-shotism, a sense of superiority over others, and grandiosity. If Trump would be open to seeing a psychologist or psychiatrist, he might gain insight and make more rational, better decisions.

The good news is that the United Nations is showing a growing interest in a 109 Charter Review, the result of original research from the Center for UN Constitutional Research (CUNCR). The undemocratic UN Charter is obsolete with fatal flaws. Riding on the back of 109, the UN General Assembly should join forces with the World Constitution & Parliament Association (WCPA) who soon will be meeting in India for Sessions of a Provisional World Parliament utilizing WCPA's visionary Earth Constitution, designed to replace the outdated UN Charter.

-- R. Kotila, PhD

If President Trump is a pathological liar and a narcissistic psychopath, he will jump at the chance to steal the next election

Officials Plot to Have Trump Declare National Emergency in 2026, Raising Fears He May 'Hijack' the Next Election

Stephen Prager         Common Dreams

  “It’s a federal strategy to control elections and rig our democracy,” said a spokesperson for Fair Fight Action. 

EXCERPTS

Voting rights advocates are raising fears that the Trump administration may attempt to “hijack” the 2026 election after a new report revealed that a top election integrity official suggested invoking a “national emergency” to justify a federal takeover of state-run election processes.

In the US, elections are administered by states, with the president having no legal authority over how they are carried out. But Honey suggested that the Trump administration has “some additional powers that don’t exist right now,” and that by using the investigation as a pretext, “we can take these other steps without Congress and we can mandate that states do things and so on.”

An investigation by the Associated Press last year found that across the six battleground states Trump claimed were beset by widespread fraud, only 475 individual ballots out of millions of votes cast were flagged by election officials as “potentially” affected by fraud. Even if every single one of the ballots had been proven fraudulent, it would not have been nearly enough to swing the election result in Trump’s favor.

Meanwhile, several aides and officials who served Trump during the waning days of his first administration testified before the January 6 commission that the president was well aware he’d lost the election, but continued to push false claims of fraud in an effort to cling to power.

Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the administration had begun this effort to reboot the election fraud narrative, with Trump tapping former campaign lawyer and “Stop the Steal” proponent Kurt Olsen as a “special government employee” tasked with reinvestigating 2020. Olsen has reportedly already begun asking intelligence agencies for information about the 2020 election and has also suggested he wants to purge government employees who are disloyal to Trump.

On a podcast with a Christian nationalist influencer last month, Mitchell likewise pushed the idea that Trump could use emergency powers to assert control over the election.

Flugrath said these statements, and those reported by the Times, “should be a five-alarm fire,” as they suggest Trump will use past false claims of voter fraud as “a cover to hijack elections” in the future. READ MORE

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-emergency-hijack-2026-election?

America's Cowards in Power are letting Trump rise again

'Utter Moral Failure': Critics Aghast at New Reporting That Shows US Elites 'Scared of Crossing Trump'

Brad Reed           Common Dreams

“I am disappointed in those who think keeping quiet will save them,” said said one Trump critic. “It will not.”

EXCERPTS

Even as they acknowledged that only the public opposition of people in power would rein in President Donald Trump’s attacks on democracy and the rule of law, a number of political, military, business, and academic elites made clear Friday that they “are scared of crossing” the president.

In a column published on Friday in the Financial Times, Edmundv Luce revealed that he has been talking with “dozens of figures, including lawmakers, private sector executives, retired senior military figures and intelligence chiefs, current and former Trump officials, Washington lawyers, and foreign government officials,” and he found that the vast majority asked to remain anonymous for fear of attacks from the president and his administration.

Military officials who spoke with Luce expressed fears that the US armed forces will not resist Trump, as they did in his first term, were he to give them illegal orders. One retired four-star general said he worried that Dan Caine, the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, would not refuse to carry out requests to have the military interfere with elections, as many officials did in 2020 when Trump tried to get the US Army to seize voting machines in swing states that he had lost to former President Joe Biden. 

READ MORE

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-authoritarianism-chills-criticism?

The Plot to Turn America Fascist Never Died

General Smedley Butler Says "No Way!" to a Business Plot for a Fascist Takeover of the U.S.

AI Copilot     DWF NEWS

My Question to AI Copilot:

Marine General Smedley Butler turned down fascist leadership. What powerful and wealthy interests wanted Smedley Butler to lead an American fascist takeover of the US government?

AI's Answer:

Powerful business interests—including figures linked to J.P. Morgan, DuPont, and major banking and industrial circles—were implicated in the alleged 1933 Business Plot to install General Smedley Butler as a fascist leader in the U.S.

🕵️‍♂️ The Business Plot: Who Was Behind It?

In 1934, Butler testified before the House Special Committee on Un-American Activities that a group of wealthy businessmen had approached him to lead a coup against President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Their goal was to install a fascist regime modeled loosely on Mussolini’s Italy, using a veterans’ organization as a paramilitary force.

Key individuals and entities allegedly involved included:

• Gerald MacGuire: A bond salesman with connections to Wall Street, who acted as the intermediary in recruiting Butler.

• Grayson M.P. Murphy: A director of several corporations and a known financier with ties to J.P. Morgan interests.

• Robert Sterling Clark: A wealthy heir to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune, who reportedly funded MacGuire’s activities.

• DuPont family interests: Though not directly named by Butler, later investigations and journalistic accounts suggested that elements within the DuPont industrial empire were sympathetic to the plot’s aims.

The conspirators allegedly planned to raise a private army of 500,000 veterans under Butler’s command, seize control of Washington, and force Roosevelt to accept a figurehead role while real power shifted to a “Secretary of General Affairs”—effectively a fascist dictator.

🧾 Congressional Response

• Butler’s testimony was met with skepticism by much of the press, including The New York Times, which initially dismissed it as a “gigantic hoax.”

• However, the McCormack–Dickstein Committee concluded that “there is no question that these attempts were discussed, were planned, and might have been placed in execution when and if the financial backers deemed it expedient”.

• No prosecutions followed, and the names of many alleged conspirators were never officially confirmed or charged.

🧠 Butler’s Motivation

Butler, a staunch defender of democracy despite his military background, refused to participate and instead exposed the plan. He later wrote War Is a Racket, condemning the use of the U.S. military to serve corporate interests.

This episode remains one of the most startling examples of elite dissent against democratic governance in U.S. history. Would you like a breakdown of Butler’s War Is a Racket next, or a comparison to other coup attempts in U.S. or global history?

The best idea has yet to be discussed - the Earth Constitution Solution

The UN Has Lost Its Balance. Can the World Restore It?

Alexander Bobrov, Ph.D.      The Intel Drop

80 years on, the UN still speaks the language of a world that no longer exists – and risks repeating the fate of the League of Nations

Almost every Secretary-General has tried to streamline the UN’s structure and reduce its endless overlaps. Kofi Annan, for instance, convened a group known as The Elders – which included former Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov – to explore new ideas for reform. Yet every attempt has stumbled on the same obstacle: the Security Council. Continuing this tradition, the current Secretary-General, António Guterres, launched the UN80 Initiative to strengthen the organization’s legitimacy and effectiveness. He has emphasized the need to modernize the Security Council, which still reflects the geopolitical realities of 1945 rather than those of today. Fully aware of how difficult and divisive this issue is, Guterres nonetheless reignited the debate over two core questions – veto power and permanent membership.

Russia’s stance on reform is relatively balanced. Moscow supports any decision that gains broad approval among member states, but insists that the status of the existing permanent members must remain untouched. It argues that any expansion of the Security Council should favor the “global majority” – countries from Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa – since the “global minority,” particularly NATO nations, already holds three of the five permanent seats. This dominance, Russia notes, has allowed Western powers to effectively “privatize” parts of the UN Secretariat by placing their representatives in top posts – from the Secretary-General and his deputies to department heads and even the incoming President of the General Assembly for 2025–2026.

In a way, the chaos served as poetic justice. Trump had long been one of the UN’s fiercest critics. Just a week before the General Assembly, after previously pulling the US out of UNESCO, he announced that Washington would cancel its annual contribution to the UN – roughly a quarter of the organization’s total budget. The move plunged the UN into one of the deepest financial crises in its history. The fallout is expected to include large-scale staff cuts within the Secretariat, budget reductions across agencies, and even the closure or relocation of some UN offices currently based in New York.

Against this backdrop, calls to relocate the UN headquarters outside the United States have grown louder. Colombian President Gustavo Petro – who had his US visa revoked for participating in pro-Palestinian demonstrations – has publicly supported the idea. Washington’s habitual misuse of its status as host nation has drawn similar criticism from Russia, which has repeatedly seen members of its delegations denied entry to the US year after year. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov even joked that the UN could move to Sochi – a city, he noted, with all the necessary infrastructure and a proven record of hosting major international events. READ MORE

https://www.theinteldrop.org/2025/10/25/the-un-has-lost-its-balance-can-the-world-restore-it/?

UN 109 Charter review: Amend it, or replace it with the Earth Constitution Solution

Why the UN Needs a Charter Conversation, Not More Power Struggles

Kerstin Leitner & Jordan Ryan      PassBlue

EXCERPTS

“Exceptionalism” has long been a source of national pride, particularly in the US. But within the UN context, it has become a euphemism for breaches of the Charter and the selective application of international law. The organization was designed to constrain power through shared rules, not to justify unilateral action. When some members treat the Charter as optional through their unilateral conduct, others begin to doubt its binding power.

This erosion of universality is not a semantic issue. It cuts to the heart of legitimacy. If the Charter’s principles can be suspended by the powerful, then the rules-based order it created becomes little more than a slogan. The problem is not American exceptionalism alone; it is the broader acceptance of double standards that undermine the authority of the UN itself.

Reviving Article 109

The Charter’s drafters foresaw that the world would change. They included in Article 109, the Charter’s review clause, a provision for convening a conference to assess whether the organization remained fit for purpose. That provision has never been invoked. As the UN turns 80, this may be the moment to do so.

A review conference should not be feared as an opening for chaos. Properly prepared, it could be a disciplined exercise in constitutional renewal: Clarifying mandates, updating institutional design and reaffirming the legal and moral framework of international cooperation READ MORE

https://passblue.com/2025/10/23/why-the-un-needs-a-charter-conversation-not-more-power-struggles/

It's time to scrap the old system and replace it with the Earth Constitution

UN's First Committee Report on Disarmament, AI and Space

Ray Acheson          Reaching Critical Will 

EXCERPTS

Editorial: We Can Build Bunkers for the "Balance of Terror" or We Can Build Peace Through Disarmament

[First Committee Monitor, Vol. 23, No. 4]

The First Committee’s third week featured debates on nuclear weapons, other weapons of mass destruction (WMD), conventional weapons, and outer space. Throughout each, most delegations lamented the waste of money spent on weapons at the expense of human wellbeing. As Cameroon asked, “What message are we sending to populations lacking food, medicine, and schools when we invest more in the instruments of death rather than in the tools of life?”

... more delegations than ever are worried about the possible inclusion of AI in nuclear command, control, and communication (NC3) systems. “Most of today’s safeguards predate the age of algorithmic warfare,” cautioned Mozambique. “We must resist assertions that nuclear weapons can be responsibly possessed and judiciously wielded,” said Malaysia, while Mozambique described as reckless the “misplaced confidence in the idea of a ‘limited’ nuclear exchange,” which could force humanity to “stumble into nuclear war.”...

... South Africa, which will preside over the TPNW (Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons) Review Conference next year, likewise said, “It is unjustifiable that the majority of States that have bound themselves not to acquire nor aspire to possess nuclear weapons would have to bare the catastrophic consequences of the use and testing of nuclear weapons.”

Mozambique, and many other delegations, emphasized that until their total elimination, nuclear weapons and their delivery systems must remain under meaningful human control in order “to keep the nuclear taboo intact in the algorithmic age.”

Cameroon affirmed, “No algorithm should ever decide the fate of humanity.”

In an effort to help prevent such a scenario, Mexico has introduced a new resolution in the First Committee that focuses on ensuring human control over NC3 systems. The text raises concerns that AI would reduce human control and oversight...

“Space is not a frontier of exploration, but a domain of our shared aspirations: to advance knowledge, to cooperate in peace, and to ensure that progress benefits all humankind,” said Sri Lanka, expressing deep concern with “any attempt to change outer space into a ‘war fighting domain’ or the ‘next battlefield’.” 

Some current initiatives through the UN General Assembly seek to fulfil these goals and objectives of both the NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) and TPNW. The UN scientific panel on the effects of nuclear war, which was established through a First Committee resolution last year and commenced its work this year, is an important venue for understanding and amplifying the catastrophic humanitarian and environmental impacts of nuclear weapons and inspiring nuclear disarmament.

This year, Brazil and Norway are proposing the establishment of a Group of Scientific and Technical Experts on Nuclear Disarmament Verification, which Brazil explained “has the potential to foster trust and to provide the basis for the development, in a multilateral setting, of technical tools that could underpin future verification regimes.” READ MORE

https://reachingcriticalwill.org/disarmament-fora/unga/2025/fcm/18077-first-committee-monitor-vol-23-no-