Maude Barlow is the national chairperson of the Council of Canadians, and the bestselling author of twelve other books. She is a director of the International Forum on Globalization and co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, a global citizens' movement to protect water. Tony Clarke is the director of the Polaris Institute on corporations for the International Forum of Globalization. He is also the author of 'Silent Coup: Confronting the Big Business Takeover of Canada'. Together, Barlow and Clarke have co-authored three books on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, and were the Canadian leaders in the successful struggle to scuttle that deal.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Treaty Initiative
I The Crises: Red Alert
Endangered Planet
Dying of Thirst
II The Politics: Everything for Sale
Global Water Lords
Emergent Water Cartel
Global Nexus
III The Way Forward: Fightback
The Standpoint
The Way Forward
Notes
Index