[1] Van der Leeuw started working as an independent reporter on cultural issues in a wide variety of publications in 1977.
After his kidnapping and release in 1989, his second book Lebanon – the injured innocence came out, followed, in early 1992, by Kuwait burns.
His latest publication before this work was Cold War II: cries in the desert - or how to counterbalance NATO’s propaganda from Ukraine to Central Asia, published by Hertfordshire Press, England.
[6] Van der Leeuw joined the ill-heeded chorus of critics against the Bretton Wood monetary system which gave, and continues to give, America almost absolute power over all the world economies by its control over commodity and consumer good markets.
To defy that monopoly which makes and (mostly) breaks national economies including those of former Soviet republics, he recalls the effects of Colbert’s mercantilism echoed subsequently in Quesnay's physiocratic model which turned France from a third-rate nation into a first-rate economy in the 13th century and which he still considers a viable option to bring today's monetary mechanism down.