Writings


This page contains a set of links to the more polemic articles written by me since 2002. It does not contain a list of my academic writings or book reviews, which are not available at present on the internet. But to order Iraq in Fragments, written by Eric Herring and myself, see here or here (for UK/Europe) and here or here (for US/restoftheworld).

The writings are listed here not because they're particularly good or comprehensive but for convenience of reference. In citing any of the following, the author should be listed as Glen Rangwala, unless otherwise stated with a particular link.

20 January 2007: "Facing defeat in Iraq" and interview, published in Labour Left Briefing (February 2007) - Iraq

17 November 2006: "A new policy for Iraq?", published in Labour Left Briefing (December 2006) - Iraq

17 September 2006: "Churchill, Kennedy, Carter, now Blair?" (or here), published in The Times Higher Education Supplement (22 September 2006) - UK politics

16 September 2006: "The new Middle East", published in Labour Left Briefing (October 2006) - US foreign policy / Middle East

14 July 2006: Interview on the possibility of peace in the Middle East, published in the Cambridge Evening News (15 July 2006) - Israel / US foreign policy

17 June 2006: "The results of occupation", published in Labour Left Briefing (July 2006) - Iraq

20 May 2006: "Planning for regime change - again", published in Labour Left Briefing (June 2006) - Iran

18 March 2006: "National security in the US and Iraq", published in Labour Left Briefing (April 2006) - US foreign policy / Iraq

18 February 2006: "Iranian dangers", published in Labour Left Briefing (March 2006) - Iran

21 January 2006: "Iraqi elections solve little", published in Labour Left Briefing (February 2006) - Iraq

22 November 2005: "What would disengagement mean?", a paper commissioned by a group of UK parliamentarians - Iraq

22 October 2005: "Constitutional commotion", published in Labour Left Briefing (November 2005) - Iraq

17 June 2005: "War without end", published in Labour Left Briefing (July 2005) - Iraq

13 May 2005: "Lies and liability", published in Labour Left Briefing (June 2005) - Iraq

19 February 2005: "Iraq after the elections", published in Labour Left Briefing (March 2005) - Iraq

21 January 2005: "Fraudulent elections", published in Labour Left Briefing (February 2005) - Iraq

19 November 2004: "The price of victory", published in Labour Left Briefing (December 2005) - Iraq

22 October 2004: "Keeping Iraq in flames", published in Labour Left Briefing (November 2004) - Iraq

16 September 2004: "The reconquest of Iraq", published in Labour Left Briefing (October 2004) - Iraq

26 August 2004: "A case to answer", published by Adam Price MP. Co-written with Dan Plesch - Iraq / weapons / UK policy

19 July 2004: "Issues arising from the Butler report", produced for a policy briefing - Iraq / weapons / UK policy

13 July 2004: "Dismantling the wall", published in Palestine News (Summer 2004) - Palestine / Israel

24 June 2004: "The legacy of the occupation: what’s being handed over on 30 June?", published in The Independent on Sunday (27 June 2004) as "Promises, promises: the true cost of freedom for the people" - Iraq

18 June 2004: "The transfer of repression", published in Labour Left Briefing (July 2004) - Iraq

22 May 2004: "Bringing the UN in, taking the training wheels off?", published in Labour Left Briefing (June 2004) - Iraq

15 April 2004: "Behind the massacre", published in Labour Left Briefing (May 2004) - Iraq

3 April 2004: "The murder of Ahmad Yassin: why it matters", published in Palestine News (Spring 2004) - Palestine / Israel

19 March 2004: "Show of strength", published in Labour Left Briefing (April 2004) - British foreign policy

20 February 2004: "Wrong, terribly wrong", published in Labour Left Briefing (March 2004) - Iraq / weapons

7 February 2004: "The questions Butler must ask", published in The Independent on Sunday (8 February 2004) - Iraq / weapons

23 January 2004: "Changing stories on Iraq", by Ray Whitaker and Glen Rangwala, partly published in The Independent on Sunday (25 January 2004)

16 January 2004: "Deferring democracy", published in Labour Left Briefing (February 2004) - Iraq

16 January 2004: "The tribes ascendant", partly published within a longer piece in The Independent on Sunday (18 January 2004) - Iraq

15 December 2003: "Iraq's former exiles need this trial", published in The Guardian (16 December 2003) - Iraq

21 November 2003: "The President and his Consequences", published in Labour Left Briefing (December 2003) - US foreign policy / Iraq

17 October 2003: "The final nail", published in Labour Left Briefing (November 2003) - Iraq / weapons

3 October 2003: "Kay's misreport", published in The Independent on Sunday (5 October 2003) as "No uranium, no munitions, no missiles, no programmes" - Iraq / weapons

3 October 2003: "The author of the report", published in The Independent on Sunday (5 October 2003) as "Survey Group head's link to arms industry" - Iraq / weapons

20 September 2003: "They are called 'The Searchers'. But what are they looking for?", by Ray Whitaker and Glen Rangwala, The Independent on Sunday (21 September 2003) - Iraq / weapons

15 September 2003: "Letter from Baghdad", published in Labour Left Briefing (October 2003) - Iraq

12 September 2003: The abridged dossier and some evaluations, by Glen Rangwala and Andrew Johnson, probably in The Independent on Sunday (14 September 2003) - Iraq / weapons

29 August 2003: "The Hutton inquiry: week three", partly published here, by Ray Whitaker and Glen Rangwala, The Independent on Sunday (31 August 2003) - Iraq / weapons

28 August 2003: "The end of the road?", published in Palestine News (Spring 2003) - Palestine / Israel

25 August 2003: "Truth emerges (slowly)", published in Labour Left Briefing (September 2003) - Iraq / weapons

23 August 2003: "Crucial changes to the dossier that set tone for conflict" (or here), The Independent on Sunday (24 August 2003) - Iraq / weapons

23 August 2003: "How weak '45 minutes' claim became rock-solid case for war" (or here), The Independent on Sunday (24 August 2003). Co-written with Raymond Whitaker and Jo Dillon - Iraq / weapons

15 August 2003: "The dossier transformed", published in part in The Independent on Sunday (17 August 2003) - Iraq / weapons

15 August 2003: "Dr Kelly and the trailers", published in part in The Independent on Sunday (17 August 2003) - Iraq / weapons

11 July 2003: "The thirty-six lies that launched a war", published in part in The Independent on Sunday (13 July 2003) - Iraq

4 July 2003: "International peace, not perpetual war", a paper presented at a conference of the Campaign Group of Labour MPs (5 July 2003) - British foreign policy

3 July 2003: "The absence of truth: government propaganda and the war on Iraq" (originally circulated under the title of "The dodgy dossiers"), published by Labour Against the War. Co-written with Alan Simpson, MP - Iraq / weapons

28 June 2003: "Four major unresolved queries", published in The Independent on Sunday (29 June 2003) - Iraq / weapons

24 June 2003: "Questions for Alastair Campbell", broadcast in part on the Today programme of BBC Radio 4 (25 June 2003) - Iraq / UK policy

21 June 2003: "14 questions for Jack Straw", published in part in The Independent on Sunday (22 June 2003) - Iraq / weapons

21 June 2003: "Weapons of mass deception", published in Labour Left Briefing (July 2003) - Iraq / weapons

16 June 2003: "Analysis of the dossier of 30 January 2003", a paper produced at the request of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons

3 June 2003: "Analysis of the dossier of 24 September 2002", produced as a background paper for a British television documentary - Iraq / UK policy

30 May 2003: "The lies that led us into war", published in The Independent (1 June 2003). This is part of a longer article, "Evidence and deceit: how the case for war became unstuck" - Iraq / weapons

30 May 2003: Two inventories of UK and US Claims about finding Iraq's weapons and Claims about the findings of UN weapons inspectors in Iraq.

15 May 2003: "The Progress of the Pretext", published in Global Outlook (June 2003) - Iraq / weapons

15 May 2003: "False Promises", published in Labour Left Briefing (June 2003) - Iraq / economic and political reconstruction

14 May 2003: "No Signs to Peace on the Roadmap", published in Labour Left Briefing (June 2003) - Palestine / Israel

14 May 2003: "Syria Next?", published in Labour Left Briefing (June 2003) - Syria / US foreign policy

9 April 2003: "Chasing phantoms?", published in Labour Left Briefing (May 2003) - Iraq / weapons

21 March 2003: "The alliance of fundamentalisms", published in Labour Left Briefing (April 2003) - US foreign policy / Iraq

21 March 2003: "Misled into war", published in Labour Left Briefing (April 2003) - Iraq / weapons / UK policy

17 March 2003: "Tony Blair's techniques of deceit", published on the reselect.org.uk website - Iraq / UK policy

27 February 2003: "Hussein Kamel: an analysis of the transcript of his interview on 22 August 1995" - Iraq / weapons

26 February 2003: "The evidence gap", published on al-Jazeera English website (April 2003) - Iraq / Secretary Powell's claims of 5 February

22 February 2003: "Blair's crumbling case for war", published in Labour Left Briefing (March 2003) - Iraq / UK policy

19 February 2003: "British Intelligence Iraq Dossier Relies on Recycled Academic Articles", published in Global Outlook (March 2003) - Iraq / UK policy

14 February 2003: "The 44 claims made by Secretary Powell to the UN on Iraq, 5th Feb 2003 - and their evaluation" - Iraq / weapons

14 February 2003: "16 discrepancies between Powell's claims and the evidence of Blix and ElBaradei" - Iraq / weapons

11 February 2003: "The plagiarised dossier", published in the Times Higher Education Supplement (14 February 2003) - Iraq / UK policy

1 February 2003: "On the brink of war", published in the Western Daily News - Iraq

28 January 2003: "A Case for Concern, Not a Case for War", published in Middle East Report Online (Middle East Research and Information Project, MERIP). Co-written with Nathaniel Hurd and Alistair Millar. Reprinted in The Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions, edited by Micah Sifry and Christopher Cerf (Touchstone Books, May 2003) - Iraq / weapons

16 January 2003: "Preaching in the face of the facts", published in Labour Left Briefing (February 2003) - Iraq / weapons / UK policy

16 January 2003: "A war of liberation?", published in Labour Left Briefing (February 2003) - Iraq / humanitarian situation

22 November 2002: "License to war", published in Labour Left Briefing (December 2002) - Iraq / Security Council

5 November 2002: "Comments on the US-UK draft resolution of 5 November 2002", published by Lawyers Against the War / Traprock Peace Center - Iraq / Security Council

18 October 2002: "US raises the hurdles", published in Labour Left Briefing (November 2002) - Iraq / US-UK policy

27 September 2002: "Notes further to the counter-dossier", published in the UK by the Politics and Theology series and in the US by Traprock Peace Center - Iraq / weapons

20 September 2002: "Saddam's contenders", published in part in the Sunday Herald, 22 September 2002 - the Iraqi opposition

17 September 2002: "The dishonest case for war on Iraq", published by Labour Against the War. Co-written with Alan Simpson, MP - Iraq / weapons

17 September 2002: "A very tall tale", published in Labour Left Briefing (October 2002) - Iraq / weapons

17 September 2002: "Who armed Saddam?", published in Labour Left Briefing (October 2002) - Iraq / weapons

8 September 2002: "Avoiding regime change", published in the Middle East Times (September 2002) - the Iraqi opposition

August 2002: "Iraq and the West: the Politics of Confrontation", published by Understanding Global Issues, no.109 - Iraq

25 August 2002: "Not taking 'yes' for an answer?", published in Labour Left Briefing (September 2002) - Iraq / US-UK policy

25 August 2002: "What regime change?", published in Labour Left Briefing (September 2002) - the Iraqi opposition

19 August 2002: "The promise of justice", published by the Institute for Law and Peace (INLAP), 2002. - the International Criminal Court

25 June 2002: "The myth that all Iraq needs to do to lift sanctions is comply with weapons inspectors", originally written for the ArabMediaWatch website.

4 April 2002: "A Threat to the World? The facts about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction", published by Labour against the War - Iraq / weapons

19 March 2002: "Behind the Saudi Peace Plan", published in Labour Left Briefing (April 2002) - Arab-Israeli

19 March 2002: "Reasons to go to war?", published in Labour Left Briefing (April 2002) - Iraq / weapons

8 January 2002: "Allegations about the responsibility for the Halabja massacre" - Iraq / Kurds

January 2002: "The destruction of hope", published in Labour Left Briefing (February 2002) - Palestine


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