Tournament: CEDA Nationals Indiana | Round: 1 | Opponent: Texas KS | Judge: Jadon Marianetti
The United States federal government has been introducing forces into “hostile” territories all over the world without over site for years. Its imperialist reach is intent on destroying everything in its path
Marshall 13. Marshall, Andrew Gavin. Empire Under Obama: America's "Secret Wars" in Over 100 Countries Around the World. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36648.htm

Within the first five months of ….  remains institutionalized in the "combatant commands."16 

The global war on terror is really just a global campaign for domination entrenching millions in to poverty, exploitation, war, and destruction.    
Marshall 13. Marshall, Andrew Gavin. Empire Under Obama: America's "Secret Wars" in Over 100 Countries Around the World. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36648.htm (Modified for Ableist language)

In short, Obama's global 'war of terror' has ….. but to keep the very structure of society intact."

The exposure of global US imperialism and interventions is imperative because hostilities are happening everywhere. They affect us daily.  There are wars going on in our cities and all over the world.
Ross 11. Sherwood Ross. 07/25/2011. U.S. Imperialism abroad Creating police State at Home. http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/07/25/u-s-imperialism-abroad-creating-police-state-at-home/

As America’s empire spreads ….. equivalent velocity that it spreads war abroad.

US Imperialism relishes dominating anyone too black, too brown, too gay, too Muslim, too female, too poor, or too disabled. From invading countries abroad to the militarization of the police force in the US. The empires need for domination knows no bounds and is restricted by no rules  
MOHANTY in 6 (CHANDRA TALPADE, Department of Women’s Studies, Syracuse
University, Gender, Place and Culture Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 7–20, February 2006, US Empire and the Project of Women’s Studies: Stories of citizenship, complicity and dissent, http://www.uccs.edu/~pkeilbac/courses/intlpol/readings/US20Empire.pdf)

The clearest effects of US …… war abroad. Take Abu Ghraib for instance. 

US imperialism has always gendered, racialized, and sexualized its imperial wars. Creating wars embedded in male superiority and white supremacy
Mohanty, Pratt, and Riley 2008. Chandra, Minnie, and Robin. “Introduction: Feminism and US Wars – mapping the ground”, Feminism and War: Confronting U.S. Imperialism. Pg 3

The anti-imperialist analysis in Feminism ….. is an underpinning for both nation and empire. 

The reality inherent to imperialism normalizes violence against women and increases gendered inequality
Mohanty, Pratt, and Riley 2008. Chandra, Minnie, and Robin. “Introduction: Feminism and US Wars – mapping the ground”, Feminism and War: Confronting U.S. Imperialism. Pg 4-5

The effects of these conjoined economic…..  violence against women in all three countries (Bjorken et al. 2003; Brown and Romano 2006; Colson 2003).

 Jalisa and I advocate forming an Anti-Imperialist feminist struggle allowing us to build coalitions across race, gender, and sex.  We reject the imperialist interventionist ideologies behind the presidential war power authority to introduce United States armed forces into hostilities. We affirm any statutory and/or judicial restriction as well as a prohibition of this war power authority.
Mohanty, Pratt, and Riley 2008. Chandra, Minnie, and Robin. “Introduction: Feminism and US Wars – mapping the ground”, Feminism and War: Confronting U.S. Imperialism. Pg 5

The inextricable connections …..  intellectual anchors of anti-war organizing.

This Affirmative is about all of us here in the US and those abroad refusing to ignore any injustice perpetuated by the imperialist ideology the USFG upholds. The government’s attempts to secure its principles globally are a form of militarized globalization.  It leads to the direct ratcheting up of racism, sexism, and violence.
MOHANTY in 6 (CHANDRA TALPADE, Department of Women’s Studies, Syracuse
University, Gender, Place and Culture Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 7–20, February 2006, US Empire and the Project of Women’s Studies: Stories of citizenship, complicity and dissent, http://www.uccs.edu/~pkeilbac/courses/intlpol/readings/US20Empire.pdf)

A number of scholars including Leo Panitch …. Capitalist globalization is militarized globalization.

The affirmative is a performance of social structural analysis in order to re conceptualize relations between the domestic and foreign within the imperialistic system. The roll of the ballot is to asses who best performs a methodology that combats oppression

A relational structural analysis is key to understanding the way society functions
Anderson and Collins 10. “Why race, c1lass, and gender still matter”,  Race, Class, and Gender: an Anthology, pp. 12-13

We want readers to understand that race, ….. that form the very framework of society.

The feminist resistance highlights an anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist praxis
Mohanty, Pratt, and Riley 2008. Chandra, Minnie, and Robin. “Introduction: Feminism and US Wars – mapping the ground”, Feminism and War: Confronting U.S. Imperialism. Pg 11

In fact, there is no unified political position ……. and anti-capitalist feminist praxis.

Imperialism is based in a racist, sexist, and classist epistimology only reproduces racist, sexist, classist outcomes
Anderson and Collins 10. “Why race, class, and gender still matter”, Race, Class, and Gender: an Anthology, pp. 5

Second, having misleading and incorrect ……. and dehumanizing systems of oppression.
It is imperative that we articulate futures outside those currently prescribed by the dominant discourse—otherwise we are facing self-fulfilling prophecies. Humanity is now an afterthought. The 1ac criticism is a course of action that de-bunks and rejects the system of imperialism
Dunmire in 2005 (Patricia, Kent State University, Discourse and Society 16 (4)481-513)

The specific focus of this article is the ……. those prescribed by dominant discourses.

This is not a ceding of the political it a prerequisite to the political – continuing to use political without changing the way you think and act within that framework necessarily  fails as the status quo does.
Brown and Halley, 02 (Wendy Brown-Professor of Political Science and women’s studies at University of California, Berkley and Janet Halley-Professor of Law at Harvard University. “Introduction”. Left Legalism/Left Critique. Editors: Wendy Brown and Janet Halley. Duke University Press. P. 33) 

If it seems we are simultaneously ……. identifying or collapsing the two projects.

Tournament: UTD | Round: 1 | Opponent: tabroom | Judge: a
The United States federal government had been introducing forces into “hostile” territories all over the world with no over site for years. Soldiers shoot, blind, push, stab, rape, bomb, break, shackle, water board, oppress, and capture people and we never see it, never even hear the stories
Marshall 13. Marshall, Andrew Gavin. Empire Under Obama: America's "Secret Wars" in Over 100 Countries Around the World. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36648.htm
Within the first five months of Obama's  - institutionalized in the "combatant commands."16 

AND

Intervention in the name of national security creates a world where violence and the war on terror become inevitable. Only by rejecting the imperialist system can there be an end to that violence
Neocleous 08.  Mark Neocleous is a Professor of the critique of Political Economy at Brunel University, UK and a member of the Editorial Collective of “Radical Philosophy”. Critique of Security. 104

In other words, the security policy  - identity and thus the politics of loyalty.

AND

We must expose the government for what they really are. Careless cowards playing political war games, placing soldiers on the battlefield like poker chips in a casino and going all in. But it’s not like they were gambling their own worthless lives, so I guess you could say they were bluffing. Allowing violence to run rampant with no consequences for them.
Marshall 13. Marshall, Andrew Gavin. Empire Under Obama: America's "Secret Wars" in Over 100 Countries Around the World. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36648.htm (Modified for Ableist language)

In short, Obama's global 'war of terror' has - but to keep the very structure of society intact." 

AND

The exposure of global US imperialism and interventions is imperative because hostilities are happening everywhere. They affect us daily. There is a war going on in my city. There’s a war going on in your city.  There are wars going on in our cities and all over the world. And I’m not too sure if anyone else is noticing that there are people being drafted not knowing that we are the names behind the oppression
Ross 11. Sherwood Ross. 07/25/2011. U.S. Imperialism abroad Creating police State at Home. http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/07/25/u-s-imperialism-abroad-creating-police-state-at-home/

As America’s empire spreads abroad, - velocity that it spreads war abroad.

AND

Those government cowards construct threats and form a kill-to-save mentality to defend us - the people who live within its borders. Constructing anyone not like them as the enemy that needs to be killed sacrificing the bulk of the globe for this mythical idea of national security. We will die. They will die. Culminating in collective suicide that only those in power will survive not only abroad but all of us everywhere the US imperial arm reaches
Santos leading Portuguese social theorist, the director of the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra 2k3 (Boaventura de Sousa “Collective Suicide?” http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2003/63/santos.html) 

According to Franz Hinkelammert, the West - the world's poorest countries for four years.

AND

Battles on every block bullets for every baby that will grow up too black, too brown, too gay, too Muslim, too female, too poor. And politicians will tell us we’ve got it all backwards. While war turned around spells raw we have been stripped raw of our humanity. Unspoken battles. And the question you must ask yourself is what happens when you become the hostility and the government targets you.
MOHANTY in 6 (CHANDRA TALPADE, Department of Women’s Studies, Syracuse
University, Gender, Place and Culture Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 7–20, February 2006, US Empire and the Project of Women’s Studies: Stories of citizenship, complicity and dissent, http://www.uccs.edu/~pkeilbac/courses/intlpol/readings/US20Empire.pdf)

The clearest effects of US - abroad. Take Abu Ghraib for instance. 

AND

This Affirmative is about all of us here in the US and those abroad refusing to ignore any injustice perpetuated by the imperialist ideology the USFG upholds. The government’s attempts to secure its principles globally are a form of militarized globalization.  It leads to the direct ratcheting up of racism, sexism, and violence
MOHANTY in 6 (CHANDRA TALPADE, Department of Women’s Studies, Syracuse
University, Gender, Place and Culture Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 7–20, February 2006, US Empire and the Project of Women’s Studies: Stories of citizenship, complicity and dissent, http://www.uccs.edu/~pkeilbac/courses/intlpol/readings/US20Empire.pdf)

A number of scholars including Leo - globalization is militarized globalization.

AND

Thus the advocacy: Jalisa and I reject the imperialist interventionist ideologies behind the presidential war power authority to introduce United States armed forces into hostilities. 

AND

Make no mistake. We have no intention of claiming we can control the United State federal government. Nor will we argue about what the republicans, the democrats, or the president will or won’t do or want. We have remained silent for too long and our tongues are too covered with scars in the shape of our teeth. We will speak out and must against all the atrocities this government is waging in our names and in this round that can create change.
KETELS – 96
Violet B. – prof English Temple, former director Intellectual Heritage Program – 548 Annals 45 (lexis)
  
ABSTRACT: This article argues the virtue - and human life sacred again. 

AND

It is imperative that we articulate futures outside those currently prescribed by the dominant discourse—otherwise we are facing self-fulfilling prophecies. Humanity is now an afterthought. Reality is what we are left with thousands dead with a million questions that will remain unanswered. We are just procrastinating spectators holding safety scissors when the truth is we could have cut these strings a long time ago. That is what the affirmative is doing. The 1ac criticism is a course of action that de-bunk and rejects the system of imperialism
Dunmire in 2005 (Patricia, Kent State University, Discourse and Society 16 (4)481-513)

The specific focus of this article - those prescribed by dominant discourses.

Tournament: Wichita State University | Round: 2 | Opponent: UCO BH | Judge: Justin Kirk
The United States federal government had been introducing forces into “hostile” territories all over the world with no over site for years. Soldiers shoot, blind, push, stab, rape, bomb, break, shackle, water board, oppress, and capture people and we never see it, never even hear the stories
Marshall 13. Marshall, Andrew Gavin. Empire Under Obama: America's "Secret Wars" in Over 100 Countries Around the World. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36648.htm
Within the first five months of Obama's  - institutionalized in the "combatant commands."16 

AND

Intervention in the name of national security creates a world where violence and the war on terror become inevitable. Only by rejecting the imperialist system can there be an end to that violence
Neocleous 08.  Mark Neocleous is a Professor of the critique of Political Economy at Brunel University, UK and a member of the Editorial Collective of “Radical Philosophy”. Critique of Security. 104

In other words, the security policy  - identity and thus the politics of loyalty.

AND

We must expose the government for what they really are. Careless cowards playing political war games, placing soldiers on the battlefield like poker chips in a casino and going all in. But it’s not like they were gambling their own worthless lives, so I guess you could say they were bluffing. Allowing violence to run rampant with no consequences for them.
Marshall 13. Marshall, Andrew Gavin. Empire Under Obama: America's "Secret Wars" in Over 100 Countries Around the World. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36648.htm (Modified for Ableist language)

In short, Obama's global 'war of terror' has - but to keep the very structure of society intact." 

AND

The exposure of global US imperialism and interventions is imperative because hostilities are happening everywhere. They affect us daily. There is a war going on in my city. There’s a war going on in your city.  There are wars going on in our cities and all over the world. And I’m not too sure if anyone else is noticing that there are people being drafted not knowing that we are the names behind the oppression
Ross 11. Sherwood Ross. 07/25/2011. U.S. Imperialism abroad Creating police State at Home. http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/07/25/u-s-imperialism-abroad-creating-police-state-at-home/

As America’s empire spreads abroad, - velocity that it spreads war abroad.

AND

Those government cowards construct threats and form a kill-to-save mentality to defend us - the people who live within its borders. Constructing anyone not like them as the enemy that needs to be killed sacrificing the bulk of the globe for this mythical idea of national security. We will die. They will die. Culminating in collective suicide that only those in power will survive not only abroad but all of us everywhere the US imperial arm reaches
Santos leading Portuguese social theorist, the director of the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra 2k3 (Boaventura de Sousa “Collective Suicide?” http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2003/63/santos.html) 

According to Franz Hinkelammert, the West - the world's poorest countries for four years.

AND

Battles on every block bullets for every baby that will grow up too black, too brown, too gay, too Muslim, too female, too poor. And politicians will tell us we’ve got it all backwards. While war turned around spells raw we have been stripped raw of our humanity. Unspoken battles. And the question you must ask yourself is what happens when you become the hostility and the government targets you.
MOHANTY in 6 (CHANDRA TALPADE, Department of Women’s Studies, Syracuse
University, Gender, Place and Culture Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 7–20, February 2006, US Empire and the Project of Women’s Studies: Stories of citizenship, complicity and dissent, http://www.uccs.edu/~pkeilbac/courses/intlpol/readings/US20Empire.pdf)

The clearest effects of US - abroad. Take Abu Ghraib for instance. 

AND

This Affirmative is about all of us here in the US and those abroad refusing to ignore any injustice perpetuated by the imperiali

Tournament: Kansas State | Round: 1 | Opponent: JCCC | Judge: DiPiazza
Dream 1ac
The United States federal government had been introducing forces into “hostile” territories all over the world with no over site for years. Soldiers shoot, stab, rape, bomb, , shackle, , oppress, and we never see it, never even hear the stories
Marshall 13. Marshall, Andrew Gavin. Empire Under Obama: America's "Secret Wars" in Over 100 Countries Around the World. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36648.htm
Within the first five months of …… the "combatant commands."16
Intervention in the name of national security creates a world where violence and the war on terror become inevitable. Only by rejecting the imperialist system can there be an end to that violence 

Neocleous 08.  Mark Neocleous is a Professor of the critique of Political Economy at Brunel University, UK and a member of the Editorial Collective of “Radical Philosophy”. Critique of Security. 104

In other words, the security policy of ….. and thus the politics of loyalty.

We must expose the government for what they really are. Careless cowards playing political war games, placing soldiers on the battlefield like poker chips in a casino and going all in. Allowing violence to run rampant with no consequences for them.
Marshall 13. Marshall, Andrew Gavin. Empire Under Obama: America's "Secret Wars" in Over 100 Countries Around the World. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36648.htm (Modified for Ableist language)
In short, Obama's global 'war of terror' has expanded ……. East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact."
The exposure of global US imperialism and interventions is imperative because hostilities are happening everywhere. They affect us daily.  There are wars going on in our cities and all over the world. And I’m not too sure if anyone else is noticing that there are people being drafted not knowing that we are the names behind the oppression

Ross 11. Sherwood Ross. 07/25/2011. U.S. Imperialism abroad Creating police State at Home. http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/07/25/u-s-imperialism-abroad-creating-police-state-at-home/
As America’s empire spreads abroad, it ….. velocity that it spreads war abroad.

Those government cowards construct threats and form a kill-to-save . Constructing anyone not like them as the enemy that needs to be killed sacrificing the bulk of the globe for this mythical idea of national security. Culminating in collective suicide that only those in power will survive 

Santos leading Portuguese social theorist, the director of the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra 2k3 (Boaventura de Sousa “Collective Suicide?” http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2003/63/santos.html) 

According to Franz Hinkelammert, the West has repeatedly been under the illusion that it should try ……world's poorest countries for four years.

Battles on every block, bullets for every baby that will grow up too black, too brown, too gay, too Muslim, too female, too poor too disabled. And politicians will tell us we’ve got it all backwards. Unspoken battles. And the question you must ask yourself is what happens when you become the hostility and the government targets you.

MOHANTY in 6 (CHANDRA TALPADE, Department of Women’s Studies, Syracuse
University, Gender, Place and Culture Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 7–20, February 2006, US Empire and the Project of Women’s Studies: Stories of citizenship, complicity and dissent, http://www.uccs.edu/~pkeilbac/courses/intlpol/readings/US20Empire.pdf)

The clearest effects of US empire building ….. home and the war abroad. Take Abu Ghraib for instance. 

Imperialism has always gendered, racialized, and sexualized its imperial wars. Creating wars embedded in male superiority and white supremacy 

Mohanty, Pratt, and Riley 2008. Chandra, Minnie, and Robin. “Introduction: Feminism and US Wars – mapping the ground”, Feminism and War: Confronting U.S. Imperialism. Pg 3

The anti-imperialist analysis in Feminism and war: confronting US imperialism …. both nation and empire. 

This Affirmative is about all of us here in the US and those abroad refusing to ignore any injustice perpetuated by the imperialist ideology the USFG upholds. The government’s attempts to secure its principles globally are a form of militarized globalization.  It leads to the direct ratcheting up of racism, sexism, and violence

MOHANTY in 6 (CHANDRA TALPADE, Department of Women’s Studies, Syracuse
University, Gender, Place and Culture Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 7–20, February 2006, US Empire and the Project of Women’s Studies: Stories of citizenship, complicity and dissent, http://www.uccs.edu/~pkeilbac/courses/intlpol/readings/US20Empire.pdf)

A number of scholars including Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin (2004) ……. is militarized globalization.

Jalisa and I reject the imperialist interventionist ideologies behind the presidential war power authority to introduce United States armed forces into hostilities. We affirm any statutory and/or judicial restriction as well as a prohibition of this war power authority.

Make no mistake. We have no intention of claiming we can control the United State federal government. We have remained silent for too long and our tongues are too covered with scars in the shape of our teeth. We will speak out and must against all the atrocities this government is waging in our names and in this round that can create change.

KETELS – 96
Violet B. – prof English Temple, former director Intellectual Heritage Program – 548 Annals 45 (lexis)
  
ABSTRACT: This article argues the virtue of Vaclav Havel's …. human life sacred again. 

The affirmative is a performance of social structural analysis in order to re conceptualize relations between the domestic and foreign within the imperialistic system. The roll of the ballot is to access who best performs a methodology that combats oppression

A relational structural analysis is key to understanding the way society functions
Anderson and Collins 10. “Why race, c1lass, and gender still matter”,  Race, Class, and Gender: an Anthology, pp. 12-13

We want readers to understand that …… framework of society.

It is imperative that we articulate futures outside those currently prescribed by the dominant discourse—otherwise we are facing self-fulfilling prophecies. Humanity is now an afterthought. The 1ac criticism is a course of action that de-bunks and rejects the system of imperialism

Dunmire in 2005 (Patricia, Kent State University, Discourse and Society 16 (4)481-513)

The specific focus of this …. that challenge those prescribed by dominant discourses.

This is not a ceding of the political it a prerequisite to the political – continuing to use political without changing the way you think and act within that framework necessarily  fails as the status quo does.

Brown and Halley, 02 (Wendy Brown-Professor of Political Science and women’s studies at University of California, Berkley and Janet Halley-Professor of Law at Harvard University. “Introduction”. Left Legalism/Left Critique. Editors: Wendy Brown and Janet Halley. Duke University Press. P. 33) 

If it seems we are simultaneously …..the two projects.

Policy only perspectives deem what is and is not relevant to the discussion excluding those who were already always excluded from the discussion – re entrenching the imperialist dominance  the aff critiques
Jones 09. “International Relations scholarship and tyranny of ‘policy relevance’,” Journal of Critical Globalization Studies Issue 1 http://criticalglobalisation.com/Issue201/125_131_JCGS1_JONES_TYRANNYPOLICYRELEVANCE.pdf

Having conceded where Nye has a point, let’s now ……. Security Assistance, Science, and Technology. (p. 127-30)

Language is a form of transversal dissent. What we know and what we talk about is part of who we are and contributes to the culture that we live in. It is our choice of what kind of culture we shape with our discourse. The language that we use is not only a part of our culture but affects everything we do – on a local and global scale
Blieker 2k. Professor of Poly Sci and IR @ Univ of Queensland, 2000(Roland, “Popular Dissent, Human Agency, and Global Politics”)

Language is one of the most fundamental aspects of human life……discursive forms of tranversal dissent.