Relying on the implicit threat of terrorism empowers the United States global strategy of conquest. What we fight is not a central enemy with guns pointed at the U.S., but rather an unnamed faceless foe somewhere beyond the horizon with the potential to become a threat. This logic is self-defeating and justifies absolute control and scapegoating in order to protect the homeland.
Slavoj Zizek, 2005 (senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and professor at the European Graduate School "Give Iranian Nukes a Chance", http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2280/)
Every power structure has to... ...turns out to be the real criminal.
Amy Kaplan 2003 (“Violent belongings and the question of empire today presidential address to the American studies Association” American Quarterly, vol. 56, no.1, march 2004, muse)
This coming-out narrative... ...movements across the globe.
Framing democracy assistance in terms of economic means allows outside technocrats to come in and deregulate the economy- making instability inevitable- turns the case
Armbrust 11(Walter, Lecturer in the Faculty of Oriental Studies and Albert Hourani Fellow of Modern Middle Eastern Studies at University of Oxford & St. Antony's College. "The Revolution Against Neoliberalism" http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/contributors/10682)
The last time I encountered... ...(may you be next).
Framing the US as an innocent victim of terrorism prevents awareness of and confrontation with imperialist atrocities.
Herman and Peterson 2001 (Edward S., Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Wharton School @ U Penn, Annenberg School for communication at U Penn, and David, independent journalist and researcher, “Who Terrorizes Whom?”, Znet, October 18, http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/HER110A.html Accessed 7/1/10 GAL)
One of the marks of... ... sponsors of terror, and less pragmatism.
This paternal downtalking to potentially “unstable” groups and areas empirically incites violent retaliation and genocide
Pramono ‘03 [Siswo, PhD Candidate ANU @ Canberra School of Social Science, Journal of Economic and Social Reaserch 4 (2), 115-138]
Western fallacy is now the global fallacy... ...genocidal global politics is materialised and intensified.
Girdner 5 (Eddie J., 2005, PhD in Political Science from UC Santa Barbara, “The Greater Middle East Initiative: Regime Change, Neoliberalism and Global Hegemony”, The Turkish Yearbook, http://dergiler.ankara.edu.tr/dergiler/44/677/8621.pdf VH)
The GMEI for democratization in the Middle East... ..., the corporate or business class.
Seeing people as obstacles to resource control constructs them as disposable – this causes extinction
Santos 3 – Professor of Sociology at the University of Coimbra (Boaventura de Sousa, “Collective Suicide?”, http://www.ces.uc.pt/opiniao/bss/072en.php)
According to Franz Hinkelammert... ... a machine of horror and destruction.
The identification of potential threats serves to recuperate the American national identity and results in extinction
Spanos 8 [William Spanos American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization. 2008. 94-97]
Finally, and not least, as chapter 6 will bear witness... ...the annihilation of the planet.
This type of rational calculation in response to perceived crisis forces sacrificial genocide of the Other
Santos ‘3 (Boaventura de Sousa, director of the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, EUROZINE, COLLECTIVE SUICIDE OR GLOBALIZATION FROM BELOW, http://www.eurozine.com/article/2003-03-26-santos-en.html)
Sacrificial genocide arises from... ...the world's poorest countries for four years.
The alternative is to say NO. Saying no leads to deeper, truer democracy and leads to a politics of solidarity without dangerous hegemonic power relations
Conway & Singh, ’11 –Brock University Sociologist and U of Toronto Political Scientist [Janet Conway and Jakeet Singh, Radical Democracy in Global Perspective: notes from the pluriverse, Third World Quarterly, 32:4, 2011, 698-706]
In terms of the latter... ...perspective of colonial difference'.
Conway & Singh, ’11 –Brock University Sociologist and U of Toronto Political Scientist [Janet Conway and Jakeet Singh, Radical Democracy in Global Perspective: notes from the pluriverse, Third World Quarterly, 32:4, 2011, 698-706]
The concept of ‘democracy’... ...spaces of colonial difference.
Epistemology must be the starting point-Empire is maintained by excluding alternate ways of knowing throw a reliance on political science “experts” that naturalize the American way of life as good.
Wedeen in 2k7 (Lisa, Professor of Political Science Lisa Wedeen specializes in comparative politics, the Middle East, political theory, feminist theory, and qualitative methods, Scientific Knowledge, Liberalism and Empire: American Political Science in the Modern Middle East Social Science Research Council, June 14-15, 2007, http://www.ssrc.org/workspace/images/crm/new_publication_3/%7B8a197abf-ed60-de11-bd80-001cc477ec70%7D.pdf)
The late Edward Said... ...a rationalist liberal politics, on the other.
Constructions of values of the Other are excluded and universalized under the assumption that all individuals value free market ideals in a consistant manner – alternative conceptions must be discussed to include ethical considerations
Brohman 95 (John, PhD in Geography from UCLA, “Economism and Critical Silences in Development Studies: A Theoretical Critique of Neoliberalism”, 1995, Third World Quarterly, JSTOR)
At the core of much of the criticism... ...growth for what and for whom?'
We have an ethical imperative to reject the aff’s exclusive politico-discursive violence
Zizek and Daly 4 (Slavoj and Glyn, 2004, senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and professor at the European Graduate School; Senior Lecturer in Politics in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at University College “Conversations with Zizek”, 14-16)
For Zizek it is imperative that we... ...'glitch' in an otherwise sound matrix.
Vote negative to question the singular conception of democracy espoused in the aff—A serious reconceptualization away from liberal democracy is key
Kurki, ’10 [Milja Kurki, Aberystwyth University, Democracy and Conceptual Contestability: Reconsidering Conceptions of Democracy in Democracy Promotion, International Studies Review (2010) 12, 363]
It is argued here that a better... ...‘‘liberal democratic’’ fashion.
Hegemony is just a tool of liberal democracy used to maintain US superiority and control movements that could threaten its iron grip
Everest 7 (Larry, Revolution #86, April 29, “Barack Obama & the Bush Doctrine: Shared Assumptions, Tactical Differences & Common Goals”, http://rwor.org/a/086/obama-en.html, Accessed 6/27/10)
The question is, what does Obama... ...other world powers to achieve it.
