Customer Review: This is a must read for everyone on this planet! Filled with alarming facts and information. Most people are completely unaware of the water crisis, so read this book and tell everyone you know.
Customer Review: This excellent book makes the case for public ownership and control over our water services.
In the past ten years, three giant global corporations, France's Suez and Vivendi Environnement, and Thames, have seized control over the water supplied to almost 300 million people in every continent.... more info
Customer Review: Anita Roddick proves that if you have enough money you can publish your own propoganda in shiny little books. This is not a serious discussion of water issues. It's the usual socialist garbage Roddick wants to apply to others, but not herself. Unless you're an unusually gullible fourth... more info
Customer Review: The corporate propagandists who have been selling the world on "free" trade have done a good job of branding their agenda as having something to do with liberation. "Free" trade - who could be against that? - we're all for "freedom." But as Maude Barlow points out, "free" trade is actually about... more info
Customer Review: This book is heavily mis-titled. It does not offer any alternatives at all. The book is merely a compilation of rants and raves about the current world system. The people who compiled this book are clearly unhappy with how things are going with the present situation in the global economy. But, they... more info
Customer Review: By David Orton, July 15, 2001,
Published in the September 2001 edition of the online magazine of the New Brunswick Environmental Network, "Elements" This commentary will outline why I think this book is important, explain the critique in
Global Showdown,and bring out what seems to... more info
Customer Review: You mean people who choose to spend their lives in media actually have political views? Wow, what a revelation.
It obviously outrages Barlow that people who defy the Canadian left's groupthink are still allowed to own newspapers in this country. But if Barlow wants to examine bias in the Canadian... more info
