Garry Leech

Garry Leech is a British-born American independent journalist, author and publisher of the online journal Beyond Capital, which provides critical analysis of global capitalism and looks at possibilities for establishing more democratic, egalitarian and sustainable alternatives. He was formerly the editor of Colombia Journal, which analyzed U.S. foreign policy in Colombia. Leech wrote and edited Colombia Journal for eleven years (2000-2011) and while he is no longer updating that website, its more than 350 articles remain available online as a valuable resource for anyone interested in the U.S. intervention in Colombia under the guises of the war on drugs and the war on terror.
Leech is also the director of the Centre for International Studies and a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Cape Breton University in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. Additionally, he is a singer/songwriter who performs with his band The Misfit Boys.
Books
*Capitalism: A Structural Genocide (London: Zed Books, 2012), ISBN 978-1-78032-199-8
*The FARC: The Longest Insurgency (London: Zed Books, 2011), ISBN 978-1-84813-492-8
*The Failure of Global Capitalism: From Cape Breton to Colombia and Beyond (Sydney, NS: Cape Breton University Press, 2009), ISBN 978-1-897009-32-1
*Beyond Bogota: Diary of a Drug War Journalist in Colombia (Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, 2009), ISBN 978-0-8070-6145-9
*The People Behind Colombian Coal: Mining, Multinationals and Human Rights (Bogota: Pisando Callos, 2007), ISBN 978-958-97995-5-0
* (London: Zed Books, 2006), ISBN 1-84277-629-0
*Killing Peace: Colombia's Conflict and the Failure of U.S. Intervention (New York: Inota, 2002), ISBN 0-9720384-0-X

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