As to the Quaran, I was taught at University that there is only one version, which has had vowel pointing applied in several ways. The pointing does not affect meaning, so Zainahameda is correct in insisting that there is only one version.

Haiti
“After declaring martial law, “the first thing [the Marines] did was take the customs and tax collection office. The occupation army retained the Haitian president’s salary until he resigned himself to sign the liquidation of the Banque Nationale d’Haiti, which became a branch of Citibank in New York.””

Iraq
“The US military stood by and permitted the ransacking of the museum, an incalculable blow to Iraqi and world culture, just as they allowed and even encouraged the looting of hospitals, universities, libraries and government social service buildings. The occupation forces protected only the Ministry of Oil, with its detailed inventory of Iraqi oil reserves, as well as the Ministry of Interior, the headquarters of the ousted regime’s secret police.” Patrick Martin

What kind of a distorted world do we live in? Thanks for such an enlightened article Dady Chery. I can’t wait for part 2.

I’m sorry that you are unhappy it makes me sad.

The notion of striking a harmony with Nature is far from being a quaint idea. It does not mean attaining a perfect equilibrium or homeostasis, but it does mean living for many millennia under an atmosphere where the carbon dioxide (CO2) level is not allowed to rise to the point where we are all brought back to the human-hostile conditions before the Permian Era (before all the CO2 — a poison to humans and many other species — was fixed by green plants). It means not destroying our life support and being acutely aware that most of the nutrients on which we depend are merely recycled through one big living mass. To strike a harmony means shedding the delusion that our world is a giant man-made metropolis with an endless store of energy somewhere and infinite capacity for our wastes.