Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 3 | Opponent: Chaminade AL | Judge: Dan Miyamoto
Recognizing that the epistemology of capitalism manipulates our understanding of policy is a pre-condition to evaluating the resolution through moral frameworks. Marsh 95,
Marsh 95- Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, PhD from Northwestern University (James, Critique Action and Liberation, p 331-2)

Is it reasonable, therefore, even to talk about the possibility of a socialism 

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move on. Recent events in eastern Europe only confirm such a judgment.

Neoliberalism structures academic freedom in the status quo. It sets limits on what is acceptable behavior to quell dissent and any faculty truly radical enough to challenge corporate hegemony are tossed out before they can pose a real threat. Chatterjee and Maira 14
Chatterjee, Piya, and Sunaina Maira. "The Imperial University: race, war, and the nation-state." The imperial university: Academic repression and scholarly dissent (2014): 1-50.

Our geopolitical positions—of our immediate workplaces as well as trans- national work 

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of labor and survival within the U.S. university system.11

Free speech is an illusion propagated by corporatists – their model of rights assumes an equal playing field analogous to free market economists view of capital. The promotion of free speech perpetuates the idea that speech is a commodity, which strengthens neoliberalism’s hold on the academy. Brown 15
Brown, Wendy. Undoing the demos: Neoliberalism's stealth revolution. MIT Press, 2015.

At times, kennedy raises the pitch in Citizens United to depict limits on corporate 

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warring forces parallel to those of government and capital in a neoliberal economy.

This turns the case – the commodification of speech reflects the capitalist illusion of freedom. It makes speech meaningless and kills value to life. Smith ‘14
R.C. Smith April 24, 2014 “POWER, CAPITAL and THE RISE OF THE MASS SURVEILLANCE STATE: ON THE ABSENCE OF DEMOCRACY, ETHICS, DISENCHANTMENT and CRITICAL THEORY” Heathwood Institute and Press http://www.heathwoodpress.com/power-capital-the-rise-of-the-mass-surveillance-state-on-the-absence-of-democracy-ethics-disenchantment-critical-theory/ JJN from file

One pressing issue, moreover, is that majority of the popular movements that have 

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which produces and reproduces the epistemic context of its own validity.13

The alt is to reject the aff as part of a broader political struggle against capitalism.

The ballot represents a choice between competing visions of social change – elevating the aff above the individual endorsement of the aff debater is false. The debate round represents competing strategies for social change: the question is not who does the alt or plan, but of a world without capitalism vs. the affirmative. Agency questions are irrelevant—we don’t have to win the alternative spills over, just that rejection in this round is comparatively better than the aff—any other evaluation makes no sense because the judge isn’t in a position to do the aff either.
Reinsborough, 03 (Organizer, Rainforest Action Network and Wake Up America Campaign) 03 (Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, August 2003, Volume 1, Issue 2, Patrick). 

Direct action— actions that either symbolically or directly shift power relations— is an 

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find the rumors that start revolutions and ask the questions that topple empires.

Our critique independently outweighs the case -  neoliberalism causes extinction and massive social inequalities – the affs single issue legalistic solution is the exact kind of politics neolib wants us to engage in so the root cause to go unquestioned. Farbod 15
 ( Faramarz Farbod , PhD Candidate @ Rutgers, Prof @ Moravian College, Monthly Review, http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2015/farbod020615.html, 6-2)

Global capitalism is the 800-pound gorilla. The twin ecological and economic crises

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enhancing natural and social systems will soon reach a point of no return.

Tournament: NDCA | Round: 1 | Opponent: HW WB | Judge: Dan Miyamoto
The plan causes national security leaks – The protected categories overlap with classified information critical to US military power
Schoenfeld 7 (Gabriel, 2/1, sr fellow @ The Hudson Inst., “Why Journalists Are Not Above the Law”, https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/why-journalists-are-not-above-the-law/)
Considerations like these have, in fact, informed recent congressional debates over whether to 

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federal circuit courts would not be cleared up; it would be deepened.

Especially true of college newspapers – They could start publishing Wikileaks materials to keep it from disappearing
Feldman 16 (Noah, professor of constitutional and international law at Harvard University and was a clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter, “A College Newspaper Takes the Right Stand”, https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-12-05/kentucky-kernel-takes-the-right-stand-against-university)
Yet once a newspaper is in possession of a document, First Amendment concerns enter 

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like the Kernel has as much First Amendment protection as a national publication.

Leaks undermine US intelligence collection
Pillar 13 (Paul, 12/26, Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University and Nonresident Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, “Leaks and an Irresponsible Press”, http://stage.nationalinterest.org/blog/paul-pillar/leaks-irresponsible-press-9633)
Biased coverage is only part of the problem in how the press has behaved in 

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. diplomatic cables and the multitude of press stories made out of them.

That’s critical to US power
Hua 6 (Captian Guo Jing, Singapore Marine Captain, “The Laments of Cassandra: Reflections on Warning Intelligence in the Information Eden”, https://www.mindef.gov.sg/imindef/publications/pointer/journals/2006/v32n4/The_Laments_of_Cassandra_Reflections_on_Warning_Intelligence_in_the_Information_Eden.html)
The Achilles' heel of the warning process has historically occurred in analysis. Deciphering the 

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relegating the most controversial but prophetic analysis to mere footnotes or to oblivion.

Specifically, intelligence deters WMD attacks
Cillufo and Kupperman 97 (Frank, Associate Vice President at The George Washington University, and Robert, PhD NYU, terrorism expert, “Between War and Peace: Deterrence and Leverage”, https://cchs.gwu.edu/sites/cchs.gwu.edu/files/downloads/HSPI_Journal_1.pdf)
Traditional U.S. preventative and response options are inadequate to meet the challenges 

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flexibility in terms of rapid response and the ability to conduct clandestine operations.

The disad outweighs free speech – Defense is in the Constitution
Schoenfeld 7 (Gabriel, 2/1, sr fellow @ The Hudson Inst., “Why Journalists Are Not Above the Law”, https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/why-journalists-are-not-above-the-law/)
A free press is a vital component of our democracy, but it is not 

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both to the First Amendment and to the security of the American people.

Tournament: CPS | Round: 1 | Opponent: Dougherty Valley CS | Judge: Danie Park
State cuts have led tuition to spike harming the ability to students to enter college, especially those who come from low income backgrounds or are people of color – The impact is a blow to the national economy because a college degree is a crucial internal link to working in a skilled job, decreasing health care costs, and bringing greater wealth to local communities
Mitchell et al 16 (Report published by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; authors were Michael Mitchell (State Budget and Tax), Michael Leachman (State Budget and Tax), and Kathleen Masterson, “Funding Down, Tuition Up: State Cuts to Higher Education Threaten Quality and Affordability at Public Colleges”, http://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/funding-down-tuition-up, EmmieeM)
Years of cuts in state funding for public colleges and universities have driven up tuition 

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the start of the recession will make it more difficult to achieve those goals
The only thing keeping graduation rates stable is financial aid --- allows students to study full-time, encourages academic progress, and is the only way low-income students can afford to enroll
Johnson 14 (Hans Johnson – supported by the College Access Foundation of California and writing for the Public Policy Institute of California, “Making College Possible for Low-Income Students: Grant and Scholarship Aid in California”, http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_1014HJR.pdf, pg. 20-24, EmmieeM)
Students fail to complete college for many reasons, including financial constraints. Certainly it 

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earn a degree if they first enroll at a four-year college.
There’s a contradiction within government policy --- restricting free speech may be unconstitutional, but not doing so causes public colleges to lose federal funding under Title IX
Bernstein 3 (David E. Bernstein – George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law with a focus on constitutional history, “You Can’t Say That: The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties From Antidiscrimination Laws”, “Censoring Campus Speech”, https://books.google.com/books?id=zU2QAAAAQBAJandpg=PA60andlpg=PA60anddq=public+colleges+could+lose+funding+if+they+allow+for+racistsandsource=blandots=W67N5E3bznandsig=xXeBW8YaTy_Ilb34MIbu-grciy4andhl=enandsa=Xandved=0ahUKEwiBoqTkn_nQAhVBjFQKHcc7CIkQ6AEITDAI#v=onepageandq=public20colleges20could20lose20funding20if20they20allow20for20racistsandf=false, pg. 60-61, EmmieeM)
Given these constitutional barriers, public university speech codes were on the way out until

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Amendment, then so can they. Unfortunately, they may be right.
Federal funding is used to maintain financial aid resources and colleges are only growing more dependent on it as state funding goes down
Pew 15 (The Pew Charitable Trusts – compiles evidence and non-partisan analysis to inform the public and create better public policy, “Federal and State Funding of Higher Education: A Changing Landscape”, http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2015/06/federal-and-state-funding-of-higher-education, EmmieeM)
States and the federal government have long provided substantial funding for higher education, but 

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, while state funds primarily pay for the general operations of public institutions.
The impact is massive – combatting the structural barriers that prevent individuals from attending college is the main internal link to competitiveness
U.S. Department of Commerce 12 (Prepared by the U.S. Department of Commerce with consultation from the National Economic Council, “The Competitiveness and Innovative Capacity in the United States”, http://www.esa.doc.gov/sites/default/files/thecompetitivenessandinnovativecapacityoftheunitedstates.pdf, pgs. 2-10, EmmieeM)
Education is a key element for promoting economic growth and increasing the innovative capacity of 

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schools in 2011–2012 was lower than in 2007–2008.21
Competitiveness is key to US dominance – we need to keep innovating faster to ensure economic prosperity and hegemony
Segal 04 – Senior Fellow in China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations
Adam, Foreign Affairs, “Is America Losing Its Edge?” November / December 2004, http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20041101facomment83601/adam-segal/is-america-losing-its-edge.html
The United States' global primacy depends in large part on its ability to develop new 

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, the United States must get better at fostering technological entrepreneurship at home.
Loss of competitiveness results in great power conflict—retrenchment makes war inevitable and ensures the US would be dragged in
Khalilzad 11 — Zalmay Khalilzad, Counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, served as the United States ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United Nations during the presidency of George W. Bush, served as the director of policy planning at the Defense Department during the Presidency of George H.W. Bush, holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, 2011 (“The Economy and National Security,” National Review, February 8th, Available Online at http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/259024, Accessed 02-08-2011)

Today, economic and fiscal trends pose the most severe long-term threat to 

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leading the world toward a new, dangerous era of multi-polarity.