Satellite Images Reveal Human Rights Abuses in Burma
An analysis of high-resolution satellite images has provided evidence of human rights abuses in Burma.

Neutrality can be understood as a modality of transformation and control of contemporary space: international, local, urban, humanitarian, political, conflictual, economical, financial, military, institutional, natural, global, individual.

Richard Rorty, Heidegger and the Atomic Bomb, in Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel (eds.), Making Things Public, MIT Press, 2005

(…) If we want to reflect on the difference between objects and things, and about the relative merits of substantialism and relationalism, we would do well and turn our backs on Heidegger (...)

One can not testify to an event during its perception. The necessary delay between the retinal impression, the interpretation of the image and its public witnessing are the base of the relation between knowledge construction and visual representation.

The last decade has seen the establishment, dismantlement and dissolution of the ‘new world order’ coexist with the innumerous post-colonial, gender, religious, economical, military, anti-globalists and terrorist confrontations. These changes mark also the material re-organisation of the landscape and territory as well as their institutional framework.

From the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, 15 July 2006:
Today, following the expiry of the deadline for holding a referendum, Switzerland has deposited the ratification instrument of the third Protocol additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, relating to the Adoption of an Additional Distinctive Emblem. With this second ratification (after Norway), the third Additional Protocol can come into force.

This is the draft resolution submitted by the President of the General Assembly that includes a reaffirmation of the UN to "developing friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, achieving international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all"

Published March 16, 2006, this document testifies for the profound political utopia of the White House.
"It is the policy of the United States to seek and support democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world. In the world today, the fundamental character of regimes matters as much as the distribution of power among them. The goal of our statecraft is to help create a world of democratic, well-governed states that can meet the needs of their citizens and conduct themselves responsibly in the international system.

Here is the text on Perpetual Peace by Immanuel Kant:
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/kant/kant1.htm

Here is the UN report on Guantanamo.