Janelle Carlson

Janelle Carlson is a graduate of the University of South Dakota’s International Studies Program where she focused on the Middle East, minority rights and genocide studies. She has studied human rights and food security. She has published in Informed Comment, Responsible Statecraft, The International Journal of Yazidi Studies, Nonprofit Quarterly, Responsible Statecraft, and Ambrook Research, among others

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Minneapolis is Healing the Wounds of Hatred by Leading with Love

Janelle Carlson

The federal government has threatened to starve Minnesota by cutting off SNAP, WIC and other USDA funded programs as retribution.

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This is Why the Students are Protesting: Eyes on Israel’s Killing Fields in Gaza

Janelle Carlson

Bayreuth, Germany (Special to Informed Comment- Feature) – Lisa Hajjar has compared what is happening in Gaza to the Killing Fields of Cambodia. Yet where she argues that “Unlike the Khmer Rouge, the Israeli government’s exterminationist policy is not fueled by an ideological vision to remake Gaza anew. Total destruction is the goal.” As has […]