1AC - CTS Aff -new plan text The United States federal government should exempt Cuba from section(j) of the Export Administration Act section 40 of the Arms Export Control Act section 40 of the Arms Export Control Act and section 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act by removing Cuba from the United States State Departments list of state sponsors of terrorism
Greenhill
Doubles
Opponent: McDonogh ER | Judge: Roarke, McCullough, Osborne
1AC - CTS Alcoff card
Greenhill
6
Opponent: Reagan PW | Judge: Daryl Burch
1AC - CTS
Meadows
2
Opponent: Hamilton PC | Judge: Spenser Silbey
2NR - Commodification K
Meadows
3
Opponent: Loyola AC | Judge: Christian Rodriguez
2NR - T-economic engagement
Meadows
5
Opponent: Notre Dame AB | Judge: Mike Eisenstadt
2NR - T-trade
TOC
1
Opponent: Niles West NP | Judge: Andy Mccoy
new aff
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1AC Alcoff card
Tournament: Greenhill | Round: Doubles | Opponent: McDonogh ER | Judge: Roarke, McCullough, Osborne Fetishization of the local and the fugitive does not make it possible to theorize the relations between local issues as relations between parts to a whole- we need a new paradigm, not simply a scattered guerrilla war Alcoff, Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, 2012 (Linda M., “Enrique Dussel’s Transmodernism”, TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, http://escholarship.org/uc/item/58k9k17t)
For this sort of reason, I suspect some of Dussel’s critics cannot follow him AND if all meta-narrative forms are the same. They are not.
9/24/13
2ac doubles --- greenhill 2013
Tournament: Greenhill | Round: Doubles | Opponent: McDonogh ER | Judge: Roarke, McCullough, Osborne 2AC Shunning Faulty logic – moral obligation goes aff Henderson 08, David R. Henderson, Research fellow with the Hoover Institution and an associate professor of economics in the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy at the Naval Postgraduate School “End the Cuban Embargo”, 2/21/2008, http://antiwar.com/henderson/?articleid=12395 Mollie The Moral Case for the Embargo Letand#39;s step back and consider the proponentsand#39; case for AND not achieve that end, arenand#39;t you morally obligated to reconsider the policy?
2AC T-~--Economic Engagement
We meet -~-- Terror list removal is a mechanism of economic engagement -~-- Iraq proves. Borer 3 Douglas, Associate Professor in the Defense Analysis Department at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California ,“Inverse Engagement: Lessons from US-Iraq Relations, 1982-1990,î ¶ published in Parameters: U.S. Army War College Quarterly (Vol. 33, No. 2, Summer 2003), pp. 51-65. In March 1982, the U.S. Government officially began engaging Saddam AND , after Reaganís ¶ reelection, Washington resumed full diplomatic ties with Baghdad. 2. C/I: Terror sponsor status is sanctions Boston Globe 4/28 http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2013/04/28/making-terror-lists-matter-cuba-not-state-sponsor-terrorism/X2NW0rfYmtA2eJTtVZEuHI/story.html
This week, another terrorism watch list will be announced, known as the state AND related sales, controls over commercial exports, and prohibitions of economic assistance. 3. Haas and O’Sullivan conclude aff – removal of penalities and invest bans are economic engagement – we’re not political engagement Haass and O’Sullivan 2k -~-- Richard N. Haass, Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, former senior aide to President George Bush, and Meghan L. O’Sullivan, Fellow with the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, 2000 (“Terms of Engagement: Alternatives to Punitive Policies,” Survival, Volume 42, Number 2, Summer, Available Online at http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/articles/2000/6/summer20haass/2000survival.pdf) Architects of engagement strategies can choose from a wide variety of incentives. Economic engagement AND are just some of the possible incentives used in the form of engagement.
2AC QPQ Alan Gross 6. Cuba says no, we’ve made the offer in the past but Cuba is committed to not succumbing to western double standards Sanchez ‘9 Yoani Sánchez “Resistant to sticks and carrots” The Economist Nov 19th 2009 http://www.economist.com/node/14917766) THOSE who hoped that the arrival in power of Barack Obama and Raúl Castro would AND the regime in Havana who want to move in a more liberal direction.
9 Conditional ethics and morality are voting issues, the ethics of the affirmative are unconditional—allowing fear based utilitarian politics to determine the course of our ethics is a process of social separation that culminates in Otherization and the conditions necessary for the Holocaust. Bauman 1989 (Zygmunt, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds, Modernity and the Holocaust; P. 182-184 Most emphatically, my responsibility is unconditional. It does not depend on prior knowledge AND and bureaucratic achievement of modern rational society which made such a separation possible. 2AC PTX Budget (Pol Cap) 1 Obama not pushing for debt ceiling- no chance of passage Jackson 9/18 (David Jackson, USA TODAY 1:06 p.m. EDT September 18, 2013 “Obama: Debt ceiling is not a and#39;bargaining chipand#39;” http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/09/18/obama-business-roundtable-boehner-shutdown-debt-ceiling/2830789/) President Obama said Wednesday that he will not allow the debt ceiling to become and#34; AND to a debt limit increase, and this time should be no different.and#34;
Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: St Marks JM | Judge: Mike Shackelford AT otheriz good
Turn --- The moralistic fundamentalism endemic to their method of counter-terrorism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Filtering the world through the dichotomy of our exceptional “innocence” and the “terrorist” enemy’s absolute “evil” simplifies political complexity and reproduces terrorism, causing endless violence. Zulaika, director of the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, 2003 Joseba, “The Self-Fulfilling Prophecies of Counterterrorism”, Radical History Review 85 (2003) 191-199 Welcome to the promised land of terrorism. At the turn of the eighties, AND while questioning our own political and libidinal investment in the global terrorism discourse.
AT Util An epistemic community has formed where scholars reproduce flawed knowledge on terrorism unquestionably supported by the state and its institutions Jackson 7--- (Richard Jackson is Reader in the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, and a Senior Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Contemporary Political Violence (CSRV). He is the founding editor of the journal, Critical Studies on Terrorism. 2007, “Terrorism Studies and the Politics of State Power,” Paper prepared for International Studies Association’s 47th annual convention, http://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/handle/2160/1951/ISA-2007-Paper-CTS-Jackson2.pdf?sequence=1, pg. 10-12) There are a number of reasons which taken together can explain the persistence of this unstable terrorism „knowledge?. At the most basic level, this knowledge is the direct consequence of poor research methodologies and faulty assumptions of the field, as identified in the review exercises mentioned above; more rigorous and thorough research would probably result in a much greater level of scepticism towards the existing canon of knowledge and an unwillingness to reproduce it uncritically. Second, the dominance of this knowledge is directly related to the origins of the AND Cold War and the fight against terrorism in the war on terror.42 Third and most importantly, the persistence of this „knowledge? is related to AND scholars author a significant proportion of the articles published in these journals.45 More broadly, it can be argued that universities themselves are „embedded?institutions AND natural and thoroughly unsurprising consequence of its position within the existing power structure.
2AC T--- EE Long 1 We meet --- Terror list removal is a mechanism of economic engagement --- Iraq proves. Borer 3 Douglas, Associate Professor in the Defense Analysis Department at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California ,“Inverse Engagement: Lessons from US-Iraq Relations, 1982-1990,î ¶ published in Parameters: U.S. Army War College Quarterly (Vol. 33, No. 2, Summer 2003), pp. 51-65. In March 1982, the U.S. Government officially began engaging Saddam AND , after Reaganís ¶ reelection, Washington resumed full diplomatic ties with Baghdad.
And the plan text exempts Cuba from specific sanctions --- evaluate the plan text in a vacuum.
2 Counter interpretation: Removal of penalties and invest bans are economic engagement that’s distinct from political engagement Haass and O’Sullivan 2k --- Richard N. Haass, Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, former senior aide to President George Bush, and Meghan L. O’Sullivan, Fellow with the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, 2000 (“Terms of Engagement: Alternatives to Punitive Policies,” Survival, Volume 42, Number 2, Summer, Available Online at http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/articles/2000/6/summer20haass/2000survival.pdf) Architects of engagement strategies can choose from a wide variety of incentives. Economic engagement AND are just some of the possible incentives used in the form of engagement.
2AC PTX Budget (Pol Cap) No link country Reports on Terrorism only released once a year in April US Department of State No date http://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/ “Country Reports on Terrorism” No date. U.S. law requires the Secretary of State to provide Congress, by April 30 of each year, a full and complete report on terrorism with regard to those countries and groups meeting criteria set forth in the legislation. This annual report is entitled Country Reports on Terrorism. Beginning with the report for 2004, it replaced the previously published Patterns of Global Terrorism. 1 Obama not pushing for debt ceiling- no chance of passage Jackson 9/18 (David Jackson, USA TODAY 1:06 p.m. EDT September 18, 2013 “Obama: Debt ceiling is not a 'bargaining chip'” http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/09/18/obama-business-roundtable-boehner-shutdown-debt-ceiling/2830789/) President Obama said Wednesday that he will not allow the debt ceiling to become " AND to a debt limit increase, and this time should be no different."
2 Obama has zero political capital for budget battles Rogers 9/17 (Ed Rogers, September 17, 2013, “The Insiders: Stubborn facts and bothersome polls,” Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/09/17/the-insiders-stubborn-facts-and-bothersome-polls/) It seems like it has been 10 years, but in reality it has been less than 10 months since the president’s second inauguration. And as President Obama tries to put Syria behind him, nothing on the domestic agenda looks promising. I don’t know what the opposite of the Midas Touch is, but that’s what Obama has. To try and regain some momentum and credibility domestically, the president is attempting to pivot back to the economy (yet again.) But his remarks yesterday, on the five-year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, seemed tone-deaf, as he lashed out at Republicans on economic issues while the tragic events of the Navy Yard shooting were still unfolding. ?And while the president loves to surround himself onstage with middle class families while he waxes poetic about how much he’s helping them, the truth is that Obama’s economic policies are only helping the rich get richer. In fact, the Associated Press reported last week that, “in 2012, the incomes of the top 1 percent rose nearly 20 percent compared with a 1 percent increase for the remaining 99 percent.” ? This income equality gap — now the largest since the 1920s — shows that Obama’s policies are failing miserably, with the middle class bearing the brunt of his no-growth economy. No president has been better for the 1 percent than Obama. Obama was also dealt an embarrassing blow this week as Larry Summers withdrew his name AND take a leadership role in the looming debt ceiling and budget battles. ? And while Obamacare might be taking a back seat in the media to the other AND Americans disapprove of Obamacare, “the highest level since it was signed.” Good grief, even the weather won’t cooperate with the president. A leaked copy AND coal mine. Well, the canary is bigger and stronger than ever. The president is struggling, but Republicans shouldn’t overplay their hand. A government shutdown over defunding Obamacare would be the Republican equivalent of the president’s Syria debacle. We are on the brink of starting something that we cannot successfully conclude. And the aftermath would be worse for Republicans, because Americans care far more about health care and economic issues than they care about Syria and foreign policy. 4 PC not key or true and winners win Hirsh 13 – National Journal chief correspondent, citing various political scientists Michael, former Newsweek senior correspondent, "There’s No Such Thing as Political Capital," National Journal, 2-9-13, www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/there-s-no-such-thing-as-political-capital-20130207 The idea of political capital—or mandates, or momentum—is so poorly AND right. He did. (At least until Vietnam, that is.)
Government shutdown empirically denied --- it’s never happened because intervening actors always check Framing the economy as a security priority makes it a tool of geopolitical dominance. Higgott 3 Richard, Professor in the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick, CSGR Working Paper No. 124/03, September, “American Unilateralism, Foreign Economic Policy and the ‘Securitisation’ of Globalisation,” http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1997/1/WRAP_Higgott_wp12403.pdf The ascendancy of the unilateral idealists and the securitisation of US globalisation policies—that AND it is worth offering a brief insight into the other elements of policy.
2AC Appeasement DA 1 Case outweighs- you have a categorical imperative to reject state terrorism, absent the plan there will be constant violent interventionist policies
No link Engagement is NOT appeasement Larison, 12 – Senior editor for The American Conservative (Daniel, “Engagement is not Appeasement”, The American Conservative, 12/17, http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/engagement-is-not-appeasement/)//RG The former Republican Senator from Nebraska could have been speaking to his former colleagues when he insisted, “Engagement won’t fix all problems, but engagement isn’t appeasement or surrender or even negotiation—it’s a bridge-building process, an opportunity to better understand” others on the basis of “mutual self-respect.” Cutting off contacts with other regimes doesn’t hasten their downfall or weaken their hold on AND to contacts with other nations than if they are shut off from them. Repressive regimes will engage in brutal crackdowns and will violently suppress challenges to their control AND U.S. of influence. It deprives these regimes of nothing.
Non unique, the Obama Administration has been using a policy of appeasement towards Cuba and Venezuela since his election Boothroyd, 12 – journalist and political activist for Venezuelan Analysis (Rachel, “Republicans vow to halt “Policy of Appeasment” in Venezuela”, Venezuelan Analysis, 9/23, http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/7283)//RG Republican nominee for Vice-President of the U.S., Paul Ryan, has vowed AND . According to Ros-Lehtinen, Ryan is now a “loyal friend” to those who campaign on Cuba-related political issues.
9/23/13
2ac rd 2 --- meadows 2013
Tournament: Meadows | Round: 2 | Opponent: Hamilton PC | Judge: Spenser Silbey 2AC T---Gov-to-Gov
We Meet- Government-to-government direct talks happen prior plan implementation to ensure effective economic engagement 2. Counter-interpretation: Economic Engagement doesn’t have to be government to government IF its unconditional Haass 00 (Richard Haass and Meghan O’Sullivan, Brookings Institution Foreign Policy Studies Program, policy brief number 61, “Engaging Problem Countries,” June 2000, http://dspace.cigilibrary.org/jspui/bitstream/123456789/18245/1/Engaging20Problem20Countries.pdf?1)
The provision of economic incentives to the private sector can also be an effective mode AND trade and open markets and the maintenance of good relations to secure them. 3. Terror list removal is a mechanism of economic engagement --- Iraq proves. Borer 3 Douglas, Associate Professor in the Defense Analysis Department at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California ,“Inverse Engagement: Lessons from US-Iraq Relations, 1982-1990,î ¶ published in Parameters: U.S. Army War College Quarterly (Vol. 33, No. 2, Summer 2003), pp. 51-65. In March 1982, the U.S. Government officially began engaging Saddam AND , after Reaganís ¶ reelection, Washington resumed full diplomatic ties with Baghdad. 4. Terror sponsor status imposes sanctions Boston Globe 4/28 http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2013/04/28/making-terror-lists-matter-cuba-not-state-sponsor-terrorism/X2NW0rfYmtA2eJTtVZEuHI/story.html
This week, another terrorism watch list will be announced, known as the state AND related sales, controls over commercial exports, and prohibitions of economic assistance.
2AC T--- EE Short 1 We meet --- Terror list removal is economic engagement --- Iraq proves. Borer 3 Douglas, Associate Professor in the Defense Analysis Department at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California ,“Inverse Engagement: Lessons from US-Iraq Relations, 1982-1990,î ¶ published in Parameters: U.S. Army War College Quarterly (Vol. 33, No. 2, Summer 2003), pp. 51-65. In March 1982, the U.S. Government officially began engaging Saddam AND , after Reaganís ¶ reelection, Washington resumed full diplomatic ties with Baghdad.
2 Counter interpretation: Removal of penalties and invest bans are economic engagement that’s distinct from political engagement Haass and O’Sullivan 2k --- Richard N. Haass, Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, former senior aide to President George Bush, and Meghan L. O’Sullivan, Fellow with the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, 2000 (“Terms of Engagement: Alternatives to Punitive Policies,” Survival, Volume 42, Number 2, Summer, Available Online at http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/articles/2000/6/summer20haass/2000survival.pdf) Architects of engagement strategies can choose from a wide variety of incentives. Economic engagement AND are just some of the possible incentives used in the form of engagement.
2AC State Bad CP ‘3 Turn- Attempting to “tear down the system” and build something completely new is little more than abstract and apolitical moralism and idealism. The best way to change the world is via transformation of existing democratic institutions. Dussel, Argentine-Mexican writer and post-occidental/Decoloniality philosopher, 2008 (Enrique, Twenty Theses on Politics) The question of whether or not it is possible to “change the world¶ AND orientation that follows from the postulate of the 'dissolution of¶ the State."¶
4 Turn-Postmodernism is neither new nor liberatory yet simply a new guise of the old colonial modernity. Only the transmodernity of the affirmative can solve. Alcoff, Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, 2012 (Linda M., “Enrique Dussel’s Transmodernism”, TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, http://escholarship.org/uc/item/58k9k17t)
The historiographical meta-narrative of modernity is isomorphic with Descartes’s own story¶ of AND achieve by itself—a corealization of solidarity, which is¶ analectic,
analogic, syncretic, hybrid and mestizo, and which bonds center to¶ AND eras, it is not clear¶ how to achieve a meaningful solidarity.
5 Postmodernism is self-defeating and assumes all emancipatory futures are doomed since Europe has exhausted its own great narratives of emancipation. Mendieta, Columbian philosopher and chair of the Philosophy Dept. at Stony Brook University, 2007 (Eduardo, Global fragments : globalizations, Latinamericanisms, and critical Theory) Postmodern theories do not digress or divert too much from this epistemograph.¶ The ontograph AND the end of¶ modernity has become the end of history tout court.
Mutual Excl DA Mignolo, Argentine semiotician and professor at Duke University, 2011 (Walter D., The Darker Side of Western Modernity: global futures, decolonial options)
The argument I'm working on builds on the distinction already mentioned¶ above, made AND become aware of the regional and limited scope of liberal political¶ pluralism." 8 The Perm solves better than the alternative alone. Mignolo, Argentine semiotician and professor at Duke University, 2011 (Walter D., The Darker Side of Western Modernity: global futures, decolonial options) Decolonizing Western epistemology means to strip it out of the pretense¶ that it is AND thinking marks indeed¶ the final limits of global linear thinking and doing.
2AC Speaking for Others/Chow Mutual Excl DA Mignolo, Argentine semiotician and professor at Duke University, 2011 (Walter D., The Darker Side of Western Modernity: global futures, decolonial options)
The argument I'm working on builds on the distinction already mentioned¶ above, made AND become aware of the regional and limited scope of liberal political¶ pluralism." Turn-Postmodernism is neither new nor liberatory yet simply a new guise of the old colonial modernity. Only the transmodernity of the affirmative can solve. Alcoff, Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, 2012 (Linda M., “Enrique Dussel’s Transmodernism”, TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, http://escholarship.org/uc/item/58k9k17t)
The historiographical meta-narrative of modernity is isomorphic with Descartes’s own story¶ of AND eras, it is not clear¶ how to achieve a meaningful solidarity.
5 Postmodernism is self-defeating and assumes all emancipatory futures are doomed since Europe has exhausted its own great narratives of emancipation. Mendieta, Columbian philosopher and chair of the Philosophy Dept. at Stony Brook University, 2007 (Eduardo, Global fragments : globalizations, Latinamericanisms, and critical Theory) Postmodern theories do not digress or divert too much from this epistemograph.¶ The ontograph AND the end of¶ modernity has become the end of history tout court. 4 Turn, silence Nayar, Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Warwick, 2012 (Jayan, “The Politics of Hope and the Other-in-The-World: Thinking Exteriority”, February 9, 2012, Warwick School of Law Research Paper No. 2012/06. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2001975 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2001975)
‘Philosophy, when it is really philosophy and not sophistry or ideology, does AND despite the aspirations of ‘end of History’-type assertions of Totality.
7 Alt Fails- Fetishization of the local and the fugitive does not make it possible to theorize the relations between local issues as relations between parts to a whole- we need a new paradigm, not simply a scattered guerrilla war Alcoff, Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, 2012 (Linda M., “Enrique Dussel’s Transmodernism”, TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, http://escholarship.org/uc/item/58k9k17t)
For this sort of reason, I suspect some of Dussel’s critics cannot follow him AND problems and challenges as often connected to larger, non-local processes.
Dussel rightfully argues¶ that we need a new paradigm, not simply a AND if all meta-narrative forms are the same. They are not.
8 Turn- Attempting to “tear down the system” and build something completely new is little more than abstract and apolitical moralism and idealism. The best way to change the world is via transformation of existing democratic institutions. Dussel, Argentine-Mexican writer and post-occidental/Decoloniality philosopher, 2008 (Enrique, Twenty Theses on Politics) The question of whether or not it is possible to “change the world¶ AND orientation that follows from the postulate of the 'dissolution of¶ the State."¶
DA Turn-their rhetoric of a dichotomous relationship between viewer and participant where they perform the purified form of oppressed alterity Mendieta, Columbian philosopher and chair of the Philosophy Dept. at Stony Brook University, 2007 (Eduardo, Global fragments : globalizations, Latinamericanisms, and critical Theory) One final note of clarification. The goal of this type of analysis that I AND the subaltern¶ and, in this way, silencing him or her.
Turn-We’re not disembodied-our project is Transmodern Alcoff, Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, 2012 (Linda M., “Enrique Dussel’s Transmodernism”, TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, http://escholarship.org/uc/item/58k9k17t)
Against “reason,” Dussel poses critical reason, against universality he puts forward concrete¶ universality or mundialidad, and against modernity he poses transmodernity. As an explanation of his¶ own meta-language he has said: “the philosophy of liberation seeks to analyze and define
the¶ philosophical metalanguage of all these progressive movements”(Dussel, AND modernity into a new transmodern paradigm, looks to some as wishful thinking.¶
10/26/13
2ac rd 3 --- greenhill 2013
Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: St Marks JM | Judge: Mike Shackelford Case Terror impact claim are self-fulfilling prophecies and make global violence inevitable Lifton 3 Robert Jay, Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Superpower Syndrome: America’s Apocalyptic Confrontation With The World, p. 115-116 The amorphousness of the war on terrorism carries with it a paranoid edge, the AND be said to partner with and act in concert with the Islamist apocalyptic. Reject their ableist discourse – the exposition of ableism is critical to building a more socially just world Lunsford 2005 (Scott, Scott Lunsford has his M.A. in writing and began his PhD in Rhetoric and Writing studies in 2005, January 1st 2005, “ Seeking a Rhetoric of the Rhetoric of Dis/abilities”, Rhetoric and Composition PhD Papers, Department of English, JK) So, yes, discussing words, and ultimately asking why we valorize some words AND , we run the risk of slipping back into our own comfortable silence.
2AC T-~-- EE Long 1 We meet -~-- Terror list removal is a mechanism of economic engagement -~-- Iraq proves. Borer 3 Douglas, Associate Professor in the Defense Analysis Department at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California ,“Inverse Engagement: Lessons from US-Iraq Relations, 1982-1990,î ¶ published in Parameters: U.S. Army War College Quarterly (Vol. 33, No. 2, Summer 2003), pp. 51-65. In March 1982, the U.S. Government officially began engaging Saddam AND , after Reaganís ¶ reelection, Washington resumed full diplomatic ties with Baghdad.
2 Counter interpretation: Removal of penalties and invest bans are economic engagement that’s distinct from political engagement Haass and O’Sullivan 2k -~-- Richard N. Haass, Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, former senior aide to President George Bush, and Meghan L. O’Sullivan, Fellow with the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, 2000 (“Terms of Engagement: Alternatives to Punitive Policies,” Survival, Volume 42, Number 2, Summer, Available Online at http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/articles/2000/6/summer20haass/2000survival.pdf) Architects of engagement strategies can choose from a wide variety of incentives. Economic engagement AND are just some of the possible incentives used in the form of engagement.
2AC PTX Continuing Rez Case o/w -~-- their impact scenarios justify worse interventions and you should reject ethnocentric paternalistic consequentialism. Continuing resolution won’t pass the Senate -~-- prefer insiders. Moran 9-21-13 (Rick, PJ Mediaand#39;s Chicago editor and Blog editor at The American Thinker, “Obama Calls Boehner, Says He Won’t Negotiate on Debt Ceiling,” PJ Media, http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/09/21/gop-senators-plan-filibuster-of-republican-house-continuing-resolution/) GOP Senators, led by Ted Cruz, are planning on filibustering the continuing resolution AND the right, it’s all or nothing with the stakes being funding Obamacare.
xxx Obama has zero political capital for budget battles Rogers 9/17 (Ed Rogers, September 17, 2013, “The Insiders: Stubborn facts and bothersome polls,” Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/09/17/the-insiders-stubborn-facts-and-bothersome-polls/) It seems like it has been 10 years, but in reality it has been less than 10 months since the president’s second inauguration. And as President Obama tries to put Syria behind him, nothing on the domestic agenda looks promising. I don’t know what the opposite of the Midas Touch is, but that’s what Obama has. To try and regain some momentum and credibility domestically, the president is attempting to pivot back to the economy (yet again.) But his remarks yesterday, on the five-year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, seemed tone-deaf, as he lashed out at Republicans on economic issues while the tragic events of the Navy Yard shooting were still unfolding. ?And while the president loves to surround himself onstage with middle class families while he waxes poetic about how much he’s helping them
9/24/13
2ac rd 3 --- meadows 2013
Tournament: Meadows | Round: 3 | Opponent: Loyola AC | Judge: Christian Rodriguez 2AC T--- EE Short 1 We meet --- Terror list removal is economic engagement --- Iraq proves. Borer 3 Douglas, Associate Professor in the Defense Analysis Department at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California ,“Inverse Engagement: Lessons from US-Iraq Relations, 1982-1990,î ¶ published in Parameters: U.S. Army War College Quarterly (Vol. 33, No. 2, Summer 2003), pp. 51-65. In March 1982, the U.S. Government officially began engaging Saddam AND , after Reaganís ¶ reelection, Washington resumed full diplomatic ties with Baghdad.
2 Counter interpretation: Removal of penalties and invest bans are economic engagement that’s distinct from political engagement Haass and O’Sullivan 2k --- Richard N. Haass, Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, former senior aide to President George Bush, and Meghan L. O’Sullivan, Fellow with the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, 2000 (“Terms of Engagement: Alternatives to Punitive Policies,” Survival, Volume 42, Number 2, Summer, Available Online at http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/articles/2000/6/summer20haass/2000survival.pdf) Architects of engagement strategies can choose from a wide variety of incentives. Economic engagement AND are just some of the possible incentives used in the form of engagement.
2AC QPQ Alan Gross 6. Cuba says no, we’ve made the offer in the past but Cuba is committed to not succumbing to western double standards Sanchez ‘9 Yoani Sánchez “Resistant to sticks and carrots” The Economist Nov 19th 2009 http://www.economist.com/node/14917766) THOSE who hoped that the arrival in power of Barack Obama and Raúl Castro would AND the regime in Havana who want to move in a more liberal direction.
7 CP links to politics, if there link is true the CP inevitably angers some member of congress disrupting immigration reform 9 Conditional ethics and morality are voting issues Bauman 1989 (Zygmunt, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds, Modernity and the Holocaust; P. 182-184 Most emphatically, my responsibility is unconditional. It does not depend on prior knowledge AND and bureaucratic achievement of modern rational society which made such a separation possible. 2AC Anthro 1 Turn-your Eurocentrism is showing Mignolo, Argentine semiotician and professor at Duke University, 2011 (Walter D., The Darker Side of Western Modernity: global futures, decolonial options) The epistemic and political dimension at stake here has been aptly summarized¶ by another AND and doing is the task of¶ border epistemology and the decolonial option. 4 Mutual Excl DA Mignolo, Argentine semiotician and professor at Duke University, 2011 (Walter D., The Darker Side of Western Modernity: global futures, decolonial options)
The argument I'm working on builds on the distinction already mentioned¶ above, made AND become aware of the regional and limited scope of liberal political¶ pluralism."
Deep ecology runs parallel to the consumer society without seriously questioning its ecological and socio AND preoccupation with wilderness perservation so characteristic of American cultural and environmental history . 17
6 Turn- DRAWING LINES—The alternative simply draws a new line between animal and other Morton, Prof Lit and Environment @ UC-Davis, 2008 (Timothy, “Ecologocentrism: Unworking Animals”, SubStance Issue 117 Volume 37, Number 3, Project Muse) Strange Strangers: Animals in the Open The category "animal" is among the ways in which thinking reifies the ecological AND , we must do away with anthropocentrism and ecologocentrism in a single stroke.
7 Turn- attempting to “tear down the system” and build something completely new is little more than abstract and apolitical moralism and idealism. Dussel, Argentine-Mexican writer and post-occidental/Decoloniality philosopher, 2008 (Enrique, Twenty Theses on Politics) The question of whether or not it is possible to “change the world¶ AND orientation that follows from the postulate of the 'dissolution of¶ the State."¶ 2 Turn-Neoliberalism A. The process of globalization began with a reified concept of nature vs culture but has slowly evolved into the binaristic option between new-age environmental spirutalism of the negative’s alternative or the corporatist instrumentalism of the status quo. Mendieta, Columbian philosopher and chair of the Philosophy Dept. at Stony Brook University, 2007 (Eduardo, Global fragments : globalizations, Latinamericanisms, and critical Theory) If the nature of science has had to be rethought, so has the nature AND of a¶ new democratic, reflexive, and deliberative environmental consciousness.29
B. The plan is a key step in breaking down neo-liberalism The goal of the unending state violence we critique is the silencing of dissent and opposition to maintain power economically, politically, militarily and ideologically. The US has a long history of state sponsored terror in order to combat decolonial movements and promote its neo-liberal agenda. Blakely, Lecturer in International relations @ University of Kent, 2009 (Ruth, State Terrorism and Neoliberalism: The North in the South)
Overview of the chapters¶ In Chapter 2 I provide a conceptualisation of state terrorism AND of specific individuals and groups in an attempt to disable¶ opposition movements.¶
2AC PTX CIR (Pol Cap) Extend Kauzlarich, their impact scenarios employ a bankrupt form of consequentialism where they justify interventionist policies and prioritize national security Won’t pass- House Democrats won’t pass piecemeal, Republicans want to set it aside entirely. HuffPost 10/23 (Elise Foley, “ Republicans' Plan For Piecemeal Immigration Reform Is 'A Fallacy,' House Democrat Says.” 10/23/13. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/23/republicans-immigration-reform_n_4150703.html?utm_hp_ref=politics). WASHINGTON -- House Democrats said on Wednesday that a piecemeal approach to immigration reform isn't AND they should block even more narrow legislation to avoid being rolled by Democrats. No link country Reports on Terrorism only released once a year in April US Department of State No date http://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/ “Country Reports on Terrorism” No date. U.S. law requires the Secretary of State to provide Congress, by April 30 of each year, a full and complete report on terrorism with regard to those countries and groups meeting criteria set forth in the legislation. This annual report is entitled Country Reports on Terrorism. Beginning with the report for 2004, it replaced the previously published Patterns of Global Terrorism. Winners Win- Obama got his political capital from doing controversial things and is spending it on both the Farm Bill and immigration reform. Holland et al 10/17(Steve Holland and Mark Felsenthal, WASHINGTON, Thu Oct 17, 2013 “Crisis averted, Obama says Americans 'completely fed up' with Washington” http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/17/us-usa-fiscal-obama-idUSBRE99G0R720131017) President Barack Obama scolded congressional Republicans on Thursday hours after a fiscal crisis was narrowly AND and get to work with him on issues critical to improving the economy. Won’t pass- Obamacare fight thumps. Politico 10/23 (JAKE SHERMAN and MANU RAJU. “GOP reconsiders Obamacare tactics.” http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/gop-republicans-reconsider-obamacare-affordable-care-act-tactics-98773_Page2.html). Many conservatives think that Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) AND perennial question of whether the rank and file ever listens to Republican leadership. PC not key or true and winners win Hirsh 13 – National Journal chief correspondent, citing various political scientists Michael, former Newsweek senior correspondent, "There’s No Such Thing as Political Capital," National Journal, 2-9-13, www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/there-s-no-such-thing-as-political-capital-20130207 The idea of political capital—or mandates, or momentum—is so poorly AND right. He did. (At least until Vietnam, that is.) Link n/u Obama’s perceptual push for farm bill should have destroyed PC Mitchell 10/21(Anthea Mitchell, October 21, 2013“Obama to GOP: Pass Farm Bill, Protect Vulnerable Americans” http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/obama-to-gop-pass-farm-bill-protect-vulnerable-americans.html/?a=viewall)
According to Reuters, President Obama recently opposed Republican’s attempts to make reductions in food AND harm on the American people when we do have disagreements,” he said.
Environmental security is based around developing an economic system that reduces dependence on single resources. Dalby 2, Simon, professor of geography and political economy at Carleton University, Environmental Security, pg. 60
What is especially important is the recognition of the dynamics of change. Security is AND analyses of environmental security is the linkage to the processes of contemporary transformation.
10/26/13
2ac rd 5 --- meadows 2013
Tournament: Meadows | Round: 5 | Opponent: Notre Dame AB | Judge: Mike Eisenstadt 2AC T --- EE 1 We meet --- Terror list removal is a mechanism of economic engagement --- Iraq proves. Borer 3 Douglas, Associate Professor in the Defense Analysis Department at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California ,“Inverse Engagement: Lessons from US-Iraq Relations, 1982-1990,î ¶ published in Parameters: U.S. Army War College Quarterly (Vol. 33, No. 2, Summer 2003), pp. 51-65. In March 1982, the U.S. Government officially began engaging Saddam AND , after Reaganís ¶ reelection, Washington resumed full diplomatic ties with Baghdad. 2 Counter interpretation: Removal of penalties and invest bans are economic engagement that’s distinct from political engagement Haass and O’Sullivan 2k --- Richard N. Haass, Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, former senior aide to President George Bush, and Meghan L. O’Sullivan, Fellow with the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, 2000 (“Terms of Engagement: Alternatives to Punitive Policies,” Survival, Volume 42, Number 2, Summer, Available Online at http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/articles/2000/6/summer20haass/2000survival.pdf) Architects of engagement strategies can choose from a wide variety of incentives. Economic engagement AND are just some of the possible incentives used in the form of engagement.
2AC Decoloniality ROB is whoever best embraces and has a dialogue with the Other. 3 Mutual Excl DA Mignolo, Argentine semiotician and professor at Duke University, 2011 (Walter D., The Darker Side of Western Modernity: global futures, decolonial options)
The argument I'm working on builds on the distinction already mentioned¶ above, made AND become aware of the regional and limited scope of liberal political¶ pluralism." And Their Alternative Fails- Attempting to “tear down the system” and build something completely new is little more than abstract and apolitical moralism and idealism. Dussel, Argentine-Mexican writer and post-occidental/Decoloniality philosopher, 2008 (Enrique, Twenty Theses on Politics) The question of whether or not it is possible to “change the world¶ AND orientation that follows from the postulate of the 'dissolution of¶ the State."¶
4 The Perm solves better than the alternative alone. Mignolo, Argentine semiotician and professor at Duke University, 2011 (Walter D., The Darker Side of Western Modernity: global futures, decolonial options) Decolonizing Western epistemology means to strip it out of the pretense¶ that it is AND thinking marks indeed¶ the final limits of global linear thinking and doing. 5 Turn-To argue that their approach is the ONLY APPROACH is the very colonial-neo-liberal epistemology their link and impact arguments indict. Mignolo, Argentine semiotician and professor at Duke University, 2011 (Walter D., The Darker Side of Western Modernity: global futures, decolonial options)
I do not see decoloniality and postcoloniality campaigning for election¶ to win the voting AND coloniality and not looking for¶ alternative modernities but for alternatives to modernity.
7 Turn, the status quo approach to “the suffering other” and our anti-politics of alterity are distinct. Nayar, Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Warwick, 2012 (Jayan, “The Politics of Hope and the Other-in-The-World: Thinking Exteriority”, February 9, 2012, Warwick School of Law Research Paper No. 2012/06. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2001975 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2001975)
‘Philosophy, when it is really philosophy and not sophistry or ideology, does AND despite the aspirations of ‘end of History’-type assertions of Totality. 8 Turn-their rhetoric of a dichotomous relationship between viewer and participant Mendieta, Columbian philosopher and chair of the Philosophy Dept. at Stony Brook University, 2007 (Eduardo, Global fragments : globalizations, Latinamericanisms, and critical Theory)
One final note of clarification. The goal of this type of analysis that I AND the subaltern¶ and, in this way, silencing him or her.
10 Turn-We’re not disembodied-our project is Transmodern. Alcoff, Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, 2012 (Linda M., “Enrique Dussel’s Transmodernism”, TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, http://escholarship.org/uc/item/58k9k17t)
Against “reason,” Dussel poses critical reason, against universality he puts forward concrete AND modernity into a new transmodern paradigm, looks to some as wishful thinking.¶
2AC PTX CIR (Pol Cap) No link country Reports on Terrorism only released once a year in April US Department of State No date http://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/ “Country Reports on Terrorism” No date. U.S. law requires the Secretary of State to provide Congress, by April 30 of each year, a full and complete report on terrorism with regard to those countries and groups meeting criteria set forth in the legislation. This annual report is entitled Country Reports on Terrorism. Beginning with the report for 2004, it replaced the previously published Patterns of Global Terrorism. Won’t pass- House Democrats won’t pass piecemeal, Republicans want to set it aside entirely. HuffPost 10/23 (Elise Foley, “ Republicans' Plan For Piecemeal Immigration Reform Is 'A Fallacy,' House Democrat Says.” 10/23/13. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/23/republicans-immigration-reform_n_4150703.html?utm_hp_ref=politics). WASHINGTON -- House Democrats said on Wednesday that a piecemeal approach to immigration reform isn't AND they should block even more narrow legislation to avoid being rolled by Democrats. Winners Win- Obama got his political capital from doing controversial things and is spending it on both the Farm Bill and immigration reform. Holland et al 10/17(Steve Holland and Mark Felsenthal, WASHINGTON, Thu Oct 17, 2013 “Crisis averted, Obama says Americans 'completely fed up' with Washington” http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/17/us-usa-fiscal-obama-idUSBRE99G0R720131017) President Barack Obama scolded congressional Republicans on Thursday hours after a fiscal crisis was narrowly AND and get to work with him on issues critical to improving the economy. Won’t pass- Obamacare fight thumps. Politico 10/23 (JAKE SHERMAN and MANU RAJU. “GOP reconsiders Obamacare tactics.” http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/gop-republicans-reconsider-obamacare-affordable-care-act-tactics-98773_Page2.html). Many conservatives think that Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) AND perennial question of whether the rank and file ever listens to Republican leadership. PC not key or true and winners win Hirsh 13 – National Journal chief correspondent, citing various political scientists Michael, former Newsweek senior correspondent, "There’s No Such Thing as Political Capital," National Journal, 2-9-13, www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/there-s-no-such-thing-as-political-capital-20130207 The idea of political capital—or mandates, or momentum—is so poorly AND right. He did. (At least until Vietnam, that is.) Link n/u Obama’s perceptual push for farm bill should have destroyed PC Mitchell 10/21(Anthea Mitchell, October 21, 2013“Obama to GOP: Pass Farm Bill, Protect Vulnerable Americans” http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/obama-to-gop-pass-farm-bill-protect-vulnerable-americans.html/?a=viewall)
According to Reuters, President Obama recently opposed Republican’s attempts to make reductions in food AND harm on the American people when we do have disagreements,” he said.
2AC Framework 6 Their framework promotes a model of disinterested scholarship that destroys a concern for social justice. Giroux 11 (Henry A. Giroux, Professor of Education at Boston University, Fast Capitalism, Vol. 8, No. 2, “Rejecting Academic Labor as a Subaltern Class: Learning from Paulo Freire and the Politics of Critical Pedagogy,” 2011,http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/8_2/Giroux8_2.html) I believe that too many notions of academic freedom are defined through a privatized or individualized notion of freedom and are largely removed from the issue of democratic governance that is … something,and to understand the consequences of such knowledge for the world at large.
Any claims to the mutual exclusivity of their description of the world and ours, or to “Win the Debate” by proving their epistemology is the one true and correct methodology are attempts to re-inscribe the colonial logic of objectivity without parenthesis. All of their link arguments stem from the fact that their epistemology is superior to ours which ultimately only serves to reinscribe colonial epistemologies upon the debate space. Mignolo, Argentine semiotician and professor at Duke University, 2011 (Walter D., The Darker Side of Western Modernity: global futures, decolonial options)
The argument Iand#39;m working on builds on the distinction already mentioned¶ above, made AND become aware of the regional and limited scope of liberal political¶ pluralism.and#34; The Perm solves better than the alternative alone. Accepting truth in parenthesis allows one to see many decolonial options, our attempt to incorporate nodes of resistance that have been silenced by Imperialism by being labeled as terrorists or state sponsors of terror allows decolonial thinking to emerge. Mignolo, Argentine semiotician and professor at Duke University, 2011 (Walter D., The Darker Side of Western Modernity: global futures, decolonial options) Decolonizing Western epistemology means to strip it out of the pretense¶ that it is AND thinking marks indeed¶ the final limits of global linear thinking and doing. Alt Fails- Fetishization of the local and the fugitive does not make it possible to theorize the relations between local issues as relations between parts to a whole- we need a new paradigm, not simply a scattered guerrilla war Alcoff, Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, 2012 (Linda M., “Enrique Dussel’s Transmodernism”, TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, http://escholarship.org/uc/item/58k9k17t)
For this sort of reason, I suspect some of Dussel’s critics cannot follow him AND if all meta-narrative forms are the same. They are not.
Turn- Attempting to “tear down the system” and build something completely new is little more than abstract and apolitical moralism and idealism. The best way to change the world is via transformation of existing democratic institutions. Dussel, Argentine-Mexican writer and post-occidental/Decoloniality philosopher, 2008 (Enrique, Twenty Theses on Politics) The question of whether or not it is possible to “change the world¶ AND orientation that follows from the postulate of the and#39;dissolution of¶ the State.and#34;¶ Alternative leads to nihilism and fetishizes wordplay at the expense of reality. Kellner 89 (Douglas, Phil. Chair @ UCLA, Jean Baudrillard, pg. 107-108)
Yet does the sort of symbolic exchange which Baudrillard advocates really provide a solution to AND privileges and one which provides and important feature attraction of the postmodern carnival. The Case is a disadvantage to the alt- there’s no way to ever engage with problems that go beyond ourselves in the world of the alternative- that’s guarantees the triumph of racism. Some speaking for others is probably inevitable, but constant interrogation of our privilege means their impacts aren’t. Jazeel and McFarlane 09, (Tariq, PhD in Cultural Geography, Lecturer in Human Geography at The University of Sheffield, and Colin, PhD, Lecturer in the Department of Geography, Durham University, “The limits of responsibility: a postcolonial politics of academic knowledge production,” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographiers, The Royal Geographical Society, 2009. Pages 114-115). At a banal level, research must be considered as one key optic through which AND our terms ‘responsible’, disposition toward knowledge production that we would urge. Whatever the scenar
9/25/13
QPQ aff
Tournament: TOC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Niles West NP | Judge: Andy Mccoy Consequences Rogue states are a global security threat Manwaring 5 (Max G., Retired U.S. Army colonel and an Adjunct Professor of International Politics at Dickinson College, VENEZUELA’S HUGO CHÁVEZ, BOLIVARIAN SOCIALISM, AND ASYMMETRIC WARFARE, October 2005, pg. PUB628.pdf)
But failing and failed states simply do not go away. Virtually¶ anyone can AND their associated¶ problems endanger global security, peace, and prosperity.¶ 65
Pollution causes massive species loss that will result in extinction. The Stanford Daily, “Pollution causing mass extinction,” March 30, 2004 http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2004/3/30/pollutionCausingMassExtinction If you thought our basketball season was intense, get ready for March Madness on AND believe it or not, determine which species will survive or forever disappear.
Cuban instability has unique escalatory potential—refugee crisis and hotspots undermine budding liberal democratic movements. Gorrell 5 Tim, Lieutenant Colonel, “CUBA: THE NEXT UNANTICIPATED ANTICIPATED STRATEGIC CRISIS?” 3/18/5
Regardless of the succession, under the current U.S. policy, Cuba’s AND an effort to facilitate a¶ manageable transition to post-Castro Cuba?
Economic democracy is key to survival Turnbull 13 Dr Shann Turnbull has over 100 of his academic papers posted with over 250,000 scholars in the Social Science Research Network web pages at http://ssrn.com/author=26239. He is the highest ranked Australian scholar measured by the number of papers downloaded and is ranked in the top one percent internationally. He was guest faculty for a Special Interest Group in Urban Settlements at MIT in 1987. His Australian Parliamentary Papers 138/1977 and 435/1978 on Economic Development of Aboriginal Communities in the Northern Territory introduced a new system of economic analysis and a new framework for social analysis that was later developed into his PhD Thesis. He created and taught a Corporate Governance elective for the Macquarie University MBA program in 2003/4. In 2007 he taught graduate students at the University of NSW in the School of Organisation and Management and at the University of Sydney in 2008 in the School of Government and International Relations. He is Fellow of the International Institute for Corporate Governance and Accountability, George Washington University, Law School and is on the editorial advisory boards of academic journals and acts a referee. “Sustaining Society with Economic Democracy” International Institute for Self-Governance; Sustainable Money Working Group January 20, 2013 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2220072
Economic democracy provides an efficient way for sustaining both humanity and the environment. AND through the 2008 global financial crisis that has resulted serious unemployment in Spain. Economic democracy hedges back against the social inequalities inherent in status quo capitalism which exacerbate conflict and allow for invisible warfare. Szentes ‘8 Tamás Szentes, a Professor Emeritus at the Corvinus University of Budapest. “Globalisation and prospects of the world society” 4/22/08 http://www.eadi.org/fileadmin/Documents/Events/exco/Glob.___prospects_-_jav..pdf
It’ s a common place that human society can survive and develop only in a AND mass destructive weapons, and also due to irreversible changes in natural environment.
Castro
normalization of relations is inevitable but more structural change is key – the death of Chavez put Cuban stability on the brink Ashby 13 Timothy, Senior Research Fellow at the Council of Foreign Affairs, 3/29/13, “PRESERVING STABILITY IN CUBA AFTER NORMALIZING RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES – THE IMPORTANCE OF TRADING WITH STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES”, http://www.coha.org/preserving-stability-in-cuba-timothy-ashby/
Cuba under Raúl Castro has entered a new period of economic, social, and AND international law firm Dentons, he has PhD, JD and MBA degrees. New foreign investment law demonstrates that fundamental reforms are more likely to take in Raul’s regime. Jessop 4/6 David, Gleaner, “Cuban Investment And Competition”http:jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20140406/business/business10.html
On March 29 Cuba’s National Assembly passed a new foreign investment law. Its content AND and those who believe Cuba has no option but to reform and modernise. Cuban reforms are uniquely suited to provide a global model for economic democracy. Harrington 13, Keith Harrington is a board director with the New Economics Institute, an economics graduate student at the New School for Social Research and the former Maryland/DC Field Director for the Chesapeake Climate Action Network. He is also the founder of the social business Shoestring “New Cuba: Beachhead for Economic Democracy Beyond Capitalism” 17 January 2013 Videos for Nonprofits and a contributor to Grist, Truthout and Alternet. Truthout, http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13918-the-new-cuba-a-beachhead-for-economic-democracy-we-should-support The year 2012 may have been the United Nation's International Year of Cooperatives, but AND World, all of which specialize in helping worker cooperatives grow and thrive. Cuba’s economic democracy will be the platform for other countries to liberalize their economies. Se´bastien Boillat et al, Julien-Francois Gerber, and Fernando R. Funes-Monzote, 3/20/2012.(Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba; Department of Economics, Harvard University; Estacio´n Experimental ‘‘Indio Hatuey’’, Central Espan˜a Republicana, Perico, Matanzas, Cuba. “What economic democracy for degrowth? Some comments on the contribution of socialist models and Cuban agroecology,” Futures 44.6, ak)
Cuba faces the challenging task of going beyond productivist developmentalism inherited both from the Soviet AND patiently promoted. The lessons from Cuban agriculture are part of this understanding.
? Solvency Castro is betting on the lifting of the embargo—internal demands for democratization guarantee Cuban acceptance of conditions. Campos 4/10 Pedro, leader of the Puerto Rican independence movement, political publisher and politician, Havana Times, “Democratization: An Objective Priority for Cuban Society,” http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=102929
This is a brief and concrete analysis of a decisive aspect of Cuba’s current situation AND way and oppose such measures. We are talking about an objective need. plan mechanism is key to effective engagement and Cuba will say yes. Salam 4/11 Reihan, reuters, “Why Congress must rethink sanctions on Cuba”, http://blogs.reuters.com/reihan-salam/2014/04/11/congress-sanctions/?print=1andr=
What the Cuban government wants most is a relaxation of the economic sanctions 8 AND trade and investment won’t simply bolster the Cuban state and Cuba’s repressive apparatus. Solvency (extra) Cuba is pushing for economic reform—recent foreign investment law and Mariel present a strong incentive to make Mariel work. Leogrande 4/2 William M. LeoGrande is professor of government at American University in Washington, D.C., and co-author with Peter Kornbluh of the forthcoming book, “Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana” (University of North Carolina Press). “Cuba’s New Foreign Investment Law Is a Bet on the Future”, http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/13671/cuba-s-new-foreign-investment-law-is-a-bet-on-the-future
The new foreign investment law passed unanimously last Saturday by Cuba’s National Assembly is a AND Maybe there’s more quiet diplomacy going on behind the scenes than anyone realizes. Lifting the embargo is inevitable—Helms-Burton is only contingent upon the Castro regime, which will go away in 2018. Gott, 13 – honorary research fellow at the institute for the study of the Americas at the University of London (Richard, “A post-Castro Cuba”, DAWN, 2/27/13, http://beta.dawn.com/news/788938/a-post-castro-cuba)
The road to a new friendship remains a possibility, yet one of the stumbling AND would be able to forge a new and beneficial relationship with the US. The embargo is a key bargaining chip in a quid pro quo strategy—unconditional lifting doesn’t solve. David A. Perez, Yale Law School, JD, 2010, Harvard Latino Law Review, Spring, 13 Harv. Latino L. Rev. 187, America’s Cuba Policy: The Way Forward: A Policy Recommendation for the U.S. State Department, p. 216-7
After conducting some initial discussions, both countries can then move on to the embargo AND to Cuba, by no means are any overtures on Washington’s end irreversible. Plan Thus the Plan: The United States federal government should offer to initiate substantial easing of economic sanctions with the People's Republic of Cuba if and only if the People's Republic of Cuba allows its citizens to form private businesses with the right to engage in foreign trade, to receive foreign investment, and to employ workers.
4/26/14
Terror List 1AC
Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 2 | Opponent: Chattahoochee SS | Judge: 1AC-CTS Version Plan The United States federal government should remove Cuba from the State Department list of state sponsors of terrorism
Contention One-Politics Our argument is that the designation “state sponsor of terrorism” is heavily politicized and selectively biased- it serves to ideologically distract from direct state terrorism perpetrated by the United States and its allies. We have several internal links: 1st, the United States labels Cuba as a state sponsor while ignoring its own culpability in numerous attacks against Cuba. Unrelated matters are used to refuse engagement and justify Cuba’s continued inclusion on the list. Bolender 13 (Keith Bolender is a Guest Scholar at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, a freelance journalist, and the author of “Cuba Under Siege: American Policy, the Revolution and its People”. April 22, 2013, “THE TERRORIST LIST, AND TERRORISM AS PRACTICED AGAINST CUBA,” Council on Hemispheric Affairs, http://www.coha.org/22355/#sthash.u6Y6mHLD.dpuf) On an emotional level, Havana has long drawn attention to the double standard that AND relations. It is time for Cuba to be taken off the list.
2nd, The designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism reveals the list to be both over and under inclusive- South African support for terrorism was never condemned, but ideological enemies of the US are labeled “terrorist sanctuaries.” This obscures and distracts from direct state terrorism perpetrated or sponsored by the US. Jackson 6 (Richard Jackson is Reader in the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, and a Senior Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Contemporary Political Violence (CSRV). He is the founding editor of the journal, Critical Studies on Terrorism, December 2006, Denial of Sanctuary: Understanding Terrorist Safe Havens (Praeger Security International), “The State and Terrorist Sanctuaries: A Critical Analysis,” http://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/handle/2160/1948/BISA-Paper-2006-Jackson-Final.pdf?sequence=1) Political Bias A related problem for the “terrorist sanctuaries? discourse is that it AND academic analysis therefore, it may serve a number of distinctly ideological purposes. This western obsession with non-state terror paints a one sided portrait of “terrorism,” and functions as an arm of state security, reaffirming state power and supremacy in force relations with its subjects. The real horror of the 20th century is unending state violence which the narrative structure of the War on Terror works diligently to conceal and legitimize. Jackson 7 (Richard Jackson is Reader in the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, and a Senior Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Contemporary Political Violence (CSRV). He is the founding editor of the journal, Critical Studies on Terrorism, 2007, “Terrorism Studies and the Politics of State Power,” Paper prepared for International Studies Association’s 47th annual convention, http://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/handle/2160/1951/ISA-2007-Paper-CTS-Jackson2.pdf?sequence=1) An analysis of the terrorism studies field reveals a number of methodological, theoretical and AND contested, and why they continue to hold such sway over the field. Contention Two-Ethics
The direct violence against the Cuban people is a form of economic terrorism, but is concealed by both the status quo definitions of terrorism and an ethically bankrupt form of consequentialism that excuses this violence in the name of national security. Kauzlarich et al. 2 (DAVID KAUZLARICH is a Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice Studies at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville RICK A. MATTHEWS is a criminologist at Ohio University, and WILLIAM J. MILLER is a Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Carthage College. 2002, “TOWARD A VICTIMOLOGY OF STATE CRIME,” http://jthomasniu.org/class/781/Assigs/kauzvictimology.pdf) Propositions about the victimology of state crime can be developed from this review to help AND conditions that account for the persistence of institutional harms caused by its agencies.
Empathic Solidarity is the best way to break with the hypocritical and unethical consequentialism of the status quo. We must open ourselves to the standpoint of the other in order to break free of the annihilating terrorist state of the concentration camp. Mendieta 7 (Eduardo Mendieta is a Columbian philosopher and chair of the Philosophy Dept. at Stony Brook University, 2007, Global fragments: globalizations, Latinamericanisms, and critical Theory) In Dussel’s works from the seventies, then, Western thought is seen as the AND This dual view¶ of politics will remain a constant in Dussel’s thought. And our pragmatic defense of the plan provides an emancipatory philosophical movement dedicated to breaking down the barriers of class, race and national territory by seeking to transform ourselves and our democratic institutions. Stehn 11 (Alexander Stehn is a Prof of Latin American Philosophy @ University of Texas-Pan American, 2011, “Toward an Inter-American Philosophy: Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Liberation,” in Inter-American Journal of Philosophy, December 2011, Vol. 2, No. 2: 14-36) Then and now, U.S.-American pragmatism is an emancipatory philosophical¶ AND will no doubt require many more inter-American¶ confrontations and conversations. Contention Three-Epistemology Silence on state terror reifies these state-centric problem-solving paradigms and functions to maintain the legitimacy of state violence. This definitional control over legitimate forms of violence is the condition of possibility for state terrorism to occur. Jackson 9 (Richard Jackson is Reader in the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, and a Senior Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Contemporary Political Violence (CSRV). He is the founding editor of the journal, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Volume 1 Issue 3, “The ghosts of state terror: knowledge, politics and terrorism studies”, p 385-356) In contrast to first-order critique, second-order critique involves the adoption AND number of distinctly political purposes and has several important ideological consequences for society.
And terrorism is a social construction, not a brute fact- it doesn’t exist outside of the definitions we ascribe to it. Our aff is an intervention into the status quo and the discursive practices that have defined terrorism in a politicized and state-centric way. Jackson 8 (Richard Jackson is Reader in the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, and a Senior Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Contemporary Political Violence (CSRV). He is the founding editor of the journal 2008, “An Argument for Terrorism,” Perspectives on Terrorism, Volume 2: Number 2) Much more significantly however, terrorism is not a causally coherent, free-standing AND set of fairly clear identifying criteria which can be employed for research purposes. Finally, their process counterplan can’t capture the performative critique of the 1AC. Our criticism is a pre-requisite to preventing policy failure– focusing solely on policy solutions leads to blowback and turns their offense Bilgin 4 (Pinar Bilgin is a Professor of International Relations at Bilkent University, 2004, Regional Security in the Middle East p. 203-207) Chapter 6 began by presenting a critical security perspective on thinking about the future. AND 'desired' futu#e but is also cognisant of 'threats to the future.