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  Contention One: Democracy Hijacked
  Democracy has been hoisted on its own petard—the response of U.S. officials to the urgent protests of Egyptians was a persistent privileging of outcome over process that subjugated Egyptian demands for justice to American political interests
  Hoover, 11 (Joe, Fellow of Int’l rltns @ LSE) Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies v.4 pg.129  

  <As Tony Blair- of world politics.>

  Concerns over Egyptian political radicalization play into the hands of a complicated political echo chamber that seizes on any and all “Islamophobia” as a rallying cry to stabilize American identity
  Ali Et al 11 (Wajahat Ali, Eli Clifton, Matthew Duss, Lee Fang, Scott Keyes, and Faiz Shakir) “Fear, Inc. The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America” 8/11 pg. 85 

  <Fox News has- from the crowd.>

  This hand wringing is not limited exclusively to the conservative noise machine: continued American insistence upon targeting democracy assistance risks stamping out real democracy to combat a phantasmatic Islamic threat
  PHILPOTT, SHAH, AND DUFFY 8/11 (Daniel Philpott, Timothy Samuel Shah, and Monica Duffy Toft) “The dangers of secularism in the Middle East” Lexis.

  <Since the Arab- Brotherhood, Muslim Brotherhood.">

  PLAN: The United States federal government should increase financial assistance to Non-Governmental Organizations for the instruction of party work of all legally registered political parties in Egypt.
  Contention Two: It Isn’t Even LIBERAL Democracy
  Concern about Egyptian political radicalization shifts the focus from U.S. complicity in producing structural violence both at home and abroad—this violence is the condition of possibility of terrorism
  Fasenfest 11 (David) Critical Sociology 37: 379 “Terrorism Neo-liberalism and Political Rhetoric” Pg. 381 

  <Since the events- in the USA.>

  Dismissing criticism of neoliberalism authorizes a politics incapable of recognizing its own ideological content: neoliberalism so colonizes life that we can no longer recognize it for the form of particular rationality it is—democracy becomes meaningless
  Brown 11 (Wendy) Democracy in What State “We are All Democrats Now” pg. 46-48

  <If it is- the people ruling themselves.>
  Neoliberalism so colonizes the lifeworld that the termination of all life results

  Boaventura Santos, COLLECTIVE SUICIDE, 2003,  http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2003/63/santos.html

  <According to Franz- of innocent civilians>
  The toxic combination of terror anxiety and neoliberal rationality produces a creeping militant authoritarianism that crowds “the people” out of public life in favor of the empty ethics of the market
  Giroux, 6 (Henry) “Beyond the Spectacle of Terrorism” pg. 6-8 

  <One of the- war on terrorism.">
  Contention Three: Myopic Geopolitics
  American responses to the demands of Egyptian protestors reveal the ruses of a realism running off the rails—realism’s excesses categorize the hopes and dreams of protestors to feed American geopolitical dominance
  Hoover, 11 (Joe, Fellow of Int’l rltns @ LSE) Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies v.4 pg. 130-131

  <Yet this statist- for political ends.>
  Calls to temper and target democracy assistance are ethically complicit in the maintenance of a U.S. dominated realist order
  Hoover, 11 (Joe, Fellow of Int’l rltns @ LSE) Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies v.4 pg. 127 

  <Recent upheavals in-transformation over preservation.
  And Egypt serves as a unique keystone in stabilizing Western identity through its own discursively constructed instability
  Docherty 6 (Thomas) “Aesthetic Democracy” “This mummy- for its inhabiting” pg. 55-56

  <This mummy, however-mood for its inhabiting.>

  The bonds of national affinity between the “secular” Egyptian protestors and an abstract “American” people that maintains current dominance circumscribe certain lives as valuable and others as worth killing all in the name of preserving the empty values of this realist regime
  Butler 9 (Judith) Frames of War pg. 41-42

  <The question, though- to our own.>
  The insistence on the “realist” nature of politics reproduces realism as an ontology masquerading as a code of ethics: a survival-focused ontology is programmed into all politics, translating decisions about who should live and who should die from the domain of ethics into the domain of national identity
  Odysseos 2002 (Louiza, Senior Lecturer in IR at Sussex, “Dangerous ontologies: the ethos of survivaland ethical theorizing in International Relations”

  <The ethos of- relations between states.>
  Contention Four: Solvency
  Opening up the list of assistance recipients signals a commitment to meaningful democracy that transforms the current understanding of “democracy” as a tool of the Western imperium
  Carothers 2/24 (Thomas) Washington post. “How not to Promote Democracy in Egypt” http://carnegieendowment.org/2011/02/24/how-not-to-promote-democracy-in-egypt/156

  <As the U.S.- way to start.>
  Radically risking the current national subject in the name of democracy by voting affirmative breaks from the cycle of violence that is conditioned by national identity—we create a new politics borne not of horror, but of a general mindfulness of the contingency inherent in politics
  Butler 9 (Judith) Frames of War pg. 48-50 

  <When I refer- of our "fundamental humanity.">
  This new democratic being is not determined by the borders and characteristics of the political space that precedes your decision to vote affirmative—the moment of commonness signaled by the ballot opens up new political space
  Nancy 86 (Jean-Luc, The Inoperable Community.  Pg. xxxviii-xli)

  <Finitude, or the- our finite existence>
  This new mode of democratic being changes both the ontic character of existing political institutions but also rewrites the ontological basis of politics proper through discursive manipulation
  MOUFFE AND LACLAU 2K (CHANTAL,ERNESTO) “HEGEMONY AND SOCIALIST STRATEGY” PG.X 

  <There is one- through non-dialectical mediations. >

  Signaling an openness towards a politics of democracy that might be otherwise also rewrites the political coordinates of representation and subjectivity –the world of the negative is not the world after our plan
  Docherty 6 (Thomas) “Aesthetic Democracy” Pg. 157-160 

  <To change a- knows no I.>
  AGONISM IS A PREREQUISITE TO EFFECTIVE DEMOCRACY-REFRAMING THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, ONCE CONSIDERED ENEMIES AS ADVERSARIES DISALLOWS A DOMINANT COMMUNITY IDEOLOGY WHILE PROVIDING THE BEST METHODOLOGY FOR REPRESENTING THE PARTICULAR

  Mouffe, 2k (Chantal, PoliSci prof. @ Westminster U.) “The Paradox of Democracy” pg. 101-102

  <Introducing the category- transformed into agonism>
  Current gatekeepers of politics define radical democratic theory as anti-political—but embracing radical democracy transforms politics where more conservative mainstream theories have failed
  Howarth 2008 (David, Department of Government, University of Essex, “Ethos, Agonism and Populism: William Connolly and the Case for Radical Democracy” in British Journal of Politics & International Relations VOL. 10)

  <It is clear, citizens and subjects>

  
  
  

2AC Liberty Round 5 vs. Wake ZP

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• 2AC Intervention K

   

  PERM SOLVES- RADICAL DEMOCRACY ALLOWS FOR THE INCLUSION OF PERSONAL PERSPECTIVES EVEN IF DIVERGENT- THIS IS ALSO A NET BENEFIT BECAUSE IT TRANSLATES OUR PERSONAL STANCES INTO POLITICAL ACTION THAT IS THE ONLY CHANCE FOR SOLVENCY.

  Howarth 2008 (David, Department of Government, University of Essex, “Ethos, Agonism and Populism: William Connolly and the Case for Radical Democracy” in British Journal of Politics & International Relations VOL. 10)

  It is clear, then, that much ink … and then explore their implications.

   

  INTERVENTION CAN BE A GOOD THING- LIKE IN THE CONTEXT OF GENOCIDE, U.S. INACTION IS WORSE THAN A POLICY OF RESTRAINT IN INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION- SHARED PRECARITY SOLVES THIS IMPACT AND THE ALT NEVER CAN

  Strauss 5 (Scott, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University

  of Wisconsin, Madison.) Foreign Affairs Vol. 84 no.1 pg 129-130 Darfur and the Genocide Debate

  The idea that states are obligated to do … merited the “genocide” label.

   

  WE ALREADY EVALUATED OUR ONTOLOGY WHICH IS WHY WE’VE DECIDED TO REASSESS THE DOMINATION OF REALISM- REPUDIATION SOLVES- HAVE TO READ ONTOLOGY INTO POLITICS

  Spanos in 90 (William V., “A conversation with William V. Spanos,” conversation with bove, Boundary 2, Volume 17, issue 2,

  summer 1990, Prof. At binghamton, known baller, pp. 29, sales)

  Spanos: But it seems to me that …logos, of the centered circle.

   

  POLICY ACTION IS KEY TO CHANGING PERSPECTIVES ON REALISM AND INCORPORATING NOTIONS OF OUR SHARED PRECARITY

  Hetling McDermott and Mapps 8 (Andrea, Monika, Mingus) American Politics Research 2008; 36; 335 “Symbolism Versus Policy Learning” Sage.

  In her book on whether public … punish them at the polls (Fiorina, 1981).

   

  ENGAGING OTHER NATIONS WITHOUT ATTEMPTING TO INCREASE OUR OWN HEGEMONY SIGNALS A POLICY OF REASONABLE RESTRAINT WHICH IS A NECESSARY STEP AWAY FROM IMPERIALISM

  Wu 98 (Edieth Y , professor at Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Texas Southern University) “SADDAM HUSSEIN AS HOSTES HUMANI GENERIS? SHOULD THE U.S. INTERVENE?” 1998, 26 Syracuse J. Int'l L. & Com. 55

  U.S. restraint is the first step … such a structure does exist. 268

   

  A/T WARMING IMPACTS

  Warming inevitable without fundamental change in neoliberalism

  Servaas Storm 2009, Professor of Structuralist Macroeconomics, Delft University of Technology, Development and Change, “Capitalism and Climate Change: Can the Invisible Hand Adjust the Natural Thermostat?” (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-7660.2009.01610.x/full)

  I see Minqi Li's world system's contribution … joins Foster et al. in quadrant 4.

   

  Security mindset makes environmental destruction inevitable—voting aff solves the internal link

  Caygill 93

  (Howard, Professor of Cultural History at Goldsmith’s University of London, 1993 Political Subject of Violence, Manchester University Press, ed. Campbell and Dillon, pg 67-68)

  The various beginnings of attempts …global pollution, poverty, and hunger.

   

   

  NEOLIBERALISM CAUSES SPECIES DESTRUCTION AND WARMING THROUGH DEREGULATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS AND EXCESS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DEGREDATION

  O’Hara 5 (Phillip-Anthony Professor of Global Political Economy & Governance@ Curtin) “Contradictions of Neoliberal Globalisation: The Importance of Ideologies and  Values in Political Economy”

  The dominant heterodox view is that … that go beyond the free market.[i] .

  
  

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  A/T FEMINISM

   

   

   

  2AC Feminism K

  Market based life promotes a hypermasculine war of all against all

  Giroux 04, Prof of Comm @ McMaster, p. xv

  (Henry, The Terror of Neoliberalism)

  We live at a time when the conflation of private … limitedl notions of solidarity and collective struggle.

   

  TURN-DEPARTURE FROM THE NEOREALIST MINDSET ALLOWS A RETHINKING OF THE BODY THAT RESISTS TYPICAL IDENTITY. SOCIETAL NORMS GOVERNING DISTINCTIONS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY ARE CONTINGENT ON THE BODY

  Butler 9 (Judith) Frames of War pg. 52-53  

  If we accept the insight that our very … other lives can be righteously defended.

   

  Feminist politics represent a certain image of a womyn that simply produces a different form of domination, creating the problem it attempts to solve.
    Butler 90 (Judith- professor in the Rhetoric and Comparative Literature departments at the University of California, Berkeley. Butler received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University “Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity” pg. 2)

  Foucault points out that …will be clearly self-defeating.

   

  Capitalism uses law to enforce the patriarchal social order – absent a resistance to this capitalism patriarchy will remain unchanged.

  Mojab 09 (Sharzhad – teaches at the Department of Adult Education, Community Development and Counselling Psychology at the Ontario Institute for the Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. “Theorizing the Politics of ‘Islamic Feminism’ page 138-9

  http://www.scribd.com/doc/58094250/Mojab-Feminism)

  While activists can incorporate legal struggles … hierarchy will; not change (Rifkin, 1993: 416-7)

   

   

  Western feminism imposes Western cultural values while portraying a racist image of Muslim men

  Hamid 06 (Shadi - Director of Research at the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) and a Hewlett Fellow at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.  “Between Orientalism and Postmodernism: The changing nature of Western feminist thought towards the Middle East”

  www.smi.uib.no/seminars/Pensum/Hamid,%20Shadi.pdf)

  In the late 1970s, with the rise …, so too does the Western feminist, pre- sumably far ahead of her time.

   

  Grounding their project in some innocent and war free feminism simply flips the underlying hierarchies this can never solve and only replicates the harms. THE BINARY CONSTRUCTION OF MEN AND WOMEN IS WHAT UNDERWRITES ALL GENDER BASED VIOLENCE.

  Harraway, urrently a professor and chair of the History of ConsciousnessProgram at the University of California, Santa Cruz, 04

  <Donna, J. A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s, Liquid Metal pg 175-176>

  ‘We’ did not originally choose to be …that resolve into coding practices.

   

   

  
  
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2AC China Bashing DA

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• Boehner will still block and discharge petition won’t succeed.

  Reuters, 10/13/2011 (Analysis: Boehner stands firm against yuan bill, p. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/13/us-china-usa-yuan-idUSTRE79B07M20111013)

   

  A controversial U.S. bill aimed at forcing …..leadership to allow a vote on the bill.

  Nuclear deterrence and economics prevent major war

  Michael Mandelbaum, American Foreign Policy Professor, School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins, Feb. 25, 1999, Council on Foreign Relations Great Debate Series, “Is Major War Obsolete?” http://www.ciaonet.org/conf/cfr10/

   

  Good points. First, it is the case.…it’s sometimes called, the world market.

  Turn—Apathy—A. Understanding complex policy issues in terms of winners, losers, and strategy creates citizen disaffection and links to our k of depoliticization.

  Norris, 2K

  Pippa Norris, Comparative Politics—Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, 2000

  (A Virtuous Circle: Political Communications in Post-Industrial Societies, p. 3-4)

   

  This approach was exemplified in experiments......campaigns arises when strategy framing dominates.”16

  Destroyed public sphere causes extinction

  CARL BOGGS 1997. The great retreat: Decline of the public sphere in late twentieth-century America National University, Los Angeles Theory and Society 26: 741-780,

   

  The decline of the public ….had vanished from civil society.

   

  THE DISAD MEANS ONLY TO FRAME CHINA AS A THREAT IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH A NEW GLOBAL RIVAL. THIS IS A CENTRAL TENANT OF REALISM AND THE MODERN WESTERNIST ORDER.

  Pan, Chinese scholar of some repute who is oft read by kritik teams and also got his Ph.D from Australian National, 2004 (“Discourses of China in International Relations: A study in Western Theory as (IR) Practice)

   

  With the passing of the Soviet…..it was cognitively constructed beforehand. 

  
  
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