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Deb Amos

@debamos.bsky.social
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Journalism professor, former mid East correspondent for NPR, Substack author

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Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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An American Verdict, a Syrian Reckoning - 60 years for Samir Alsheikh.
“The conduct was heinous, unimaginably cruel, and almost unspeakably violent and brutal,” a federal judge in Los Angeles said before announcing the sentence.
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Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Opinion | This Is Really Bad (Gift Article)
We can no longer pretend that A.I. is safe.
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Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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A FORMER SYRIAN GENERAL IS ON TRIAL IN VIENNA FOR TORTURE A DECADE AGO. THE HARDER QUESTION IS WHO PROTECTED HIM, AND WHY
He lived quietly in Vienna despite the details of his story reported long before he was finally charged.
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Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
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THE MAN WHO “SPARKED THE SYRIAN UPRISING” GOES ON TRIAL N DAMASCUS.
Atef Najib, former head of political security in the city of Derra, is the first former Assad official to be tried in a Damascus criminal court.
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Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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TWO RUSSIAN STATE-OWNED OIL AND GAS COMPANIES WERE FOUND TO BE INVOLVED IN A PROGRAM TO KIDNAP UKRAINIAN CHILDREN. IS THAT WHY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION REINSTATED OIL SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA LAST WEEKEND?
The Yale Humanitarian Research Lab published what it called “the first definitive public proof” that Gazprom and Rosneft were involved in a campaign of deportation and re-education.
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Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
ACCOUNTABILITY ON TRIAL IN A LOS ANGELES FEDERAL COURT. THE HIGHEST-RANKING SYRIAN OFFICIAL IS TRIED ON TORTURE CHARGES. open.substack.com/pub/debamos/...
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ACCOUNTABILITY ON TRIAL IN A LOS ANGELES FEDERAL COURT. THE HIGHEST-RANKING SYRIAN OFFICIAL IS TRIED ON TORTURE CHARGES.
The first week of testimony wraps up on Friday. A U.S. jury hears gruesome testimony of alleged torture in a Damascus prison.
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Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
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Syria's TV dramas are testing Ramadan series' boundaries after Assad's fall
Syria's well-known TV dramas are returning to Ramadan screens as the industry tries to rebuild after years of war and the fall of the Assad dynasty.
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Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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THE TRUE AND TRAGIC STORY OF LOVE AND DEATH IN MARIUPOL IN 2022 The extraordinary story behind Mariupolis 2, the final film by Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravicius and his partner, Ukrainian acto
THE TRUE AND TRAGIC STORY OF LOVE AND DEATH IN MARIUPOL IN 2022
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Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
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20 DAYS IN DAMASCUS. PART 2 THE CHANGES
My first trip back to Damascus since 2011 – hope and anxiety about the future in equal measure.
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Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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It’s a Landmark Trial on the Use of Starvation as a Weapon of War. It’s Also Not What You Think.
In Germany five men will stand trial. Millions of victims, past and future, are watching.
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Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
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THE GAZA CEASEFIRE SURPRISE: HAMAS ACCEPTED TRUMP’S 21 POINT PLAN. NOW, THE BALL IS IN ISRAEL’S COURT.
Trump: "The Hamas response was an unqualified yes. Israel must immediately stop the bombing of Gaza.”
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Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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What Are Americans Allowed To Say?
Since the September 11th assassination of Charles Kirk a climate of retribution and related fear has gripped the Nation and stifled free speech
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Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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THE NETANYAHU GOVERNMENT IS IMPLEMENTING A PLAN TO ETHNICALLY CLEANSE GAZA OF PALESTINIANS. AMERICA IS COMPLICIT.
An eye-opening report from two Democratic senators who say Israel has a systematic plan to destroy Gaza and ethnically cleanse Palestinians. They call for the world to stop it.
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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
We’re baaaack! With an all-new show this week 📻📻📻 Check it out: @jamisonfoser.bsky.social on manufacturing consent for Trumps red city takeover, @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social on the MAGA weirdos and NPR-legend @debamos.bsky.social went to Ukraine! www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
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No, Trump Isn't Cracking Down on Crime. Plus, How Ukrainians Tell Their Story of the War. | On the Media | WNYC Studios
President Trump is preparing to send the National Guard to cities across the country. On this week’s On the Media, what the press is missing about the president’s so-called “crackdown...
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
The Trump administration is running Russian-style active measures…in Greenland www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Greenland: Denmark summons top US diplomat over alleged influence operation
The aim was reportedly to infiltrate Greenland's society and promote its secession from Denmark.
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
It is both uplifting and depressing that a feature on what to do when ICE arrives in your neighborhood appears in TEEN VOGUE. www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-wa...
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How to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your Neighborhood
Here’s a step-by-step guide.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Another data point to consider if you’re if the rather silly opinion that the U.S. wants Ukraine to win the war but lacks the capacity to make that happen
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
they are murdering the people who tell the truth.
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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Jesus fuckin Christ
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
⚠️ Israel killed prominent Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif in Gaza. A tent housing journalists outside of Al-Shifa Hospital was targeted. He was reporting until the moment of his death. The final words of one of his last messages were a plea to people to speak out: “Silence is complicity.”
Photo of a young, handsome smiling man with dark hair wearing a PRESS vestAnas Al-Sharif @AnasAISharifo
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Relentless bombardment...
For two hours, the Israeli aggression has intensified on Gaza City.
[video of an missile exploding in the darkness]@AnasAlSharifo
A To Whom It May Concern, The occupation is now openly threatening a full-scale invasion of Gaza.
For 22 months, the city has been bleeding under relentless
bombardment from land, sea, and air.
Tens of thousands have been killed, and hundreds of thousands wounded.
If this madness does not end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people's voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.
Please share this message and tag everyone who has the power to help end this massacre. Silence is complicity.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11/08/2025
Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19
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Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.
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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
No words Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif has been killed alongside four colleagues in a targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists in Gaza City. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
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Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.
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Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting will shutter after Trump funding cuts | CNN Business
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced on Friday that it will wind down its operations after nearly 60 years.
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Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza
Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in
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Casey @mamasissiesays.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
A doctor in Tennessee refused to treat a pregnant woman because she was unmarried. The woman had to travel to Virginia for treatment. Va is a refuge state for many southern women so we NEED Democrats to win down the ticket in November. Learn more here 👇 youtube.com/shorts/T4Bhe...
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Pregnant mom refused medical treatment by Tennessee doctors-how Virginia is helping pregnant women
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Dear God.
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Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/b... ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Is Being Canceled by CBS - The New York Times
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CBS Canceling ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ After Next Season
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
I also found this very interesting. I mean all OTMs are interesting, but…
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Anyone shocked by the national yawn in the face of open torture camps on US soil, needs to grapple with the fact that this is what we’ve ordered soldiers to do abroad, or funded other govs to do, or have allowed to happen “over there” and it became normalized and now it’s just coming home.
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Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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Landmark ruling finds Russia shot down MH17 with 38 Australians on board
Europe’s top human rights court finds Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down by Russia in July 2014
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/07/2025
Trump appears on Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs at least seven times—but did you know Epstein also flew on Trump’s plane? “They did board with a young woman of indeterminate age. I wouldn’t be able to tell if she was 15 or 20. She was quite dressed up and quite made up, so it was hard to tell"
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
SecDef Hegseth did not inform the White House before he authorized a pause on weapons shipments to Ukraine last week, setting off a scramble inside the administration to understand why the halt was implemented. www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/p...
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Hegseth did not inform the White House before he authorized pause on weapon shipments to Ukraine, sources say | CNN Politics
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth did not inform the White House before he authorized a pause on weapons shipments to Ukraine last week, according to five sources familiar with the matter, setting off...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Trump Official Suggests Replacing Deported Farm Workers with Medicaid Enrollees talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
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Trump Official Suggests Replacing Deported Farm Workers with Medicaid Enrollees
There are several layers to my conclusion that today’s remarks from President...
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 09/07/2025
Excellent analysis from Jonathan here.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
“I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State” Thomas Jefferson
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Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
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Trump’s Latest Ukraine Reversal Reveals a Disturbing Truth About the Administration
We didn’t quite know the extent to which no one is in charge.
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Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I have seen it myself
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Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
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RUSSIA LAUNCHED ITS BIGGEST ATTACK OF THE WAR FOLLOWING TRUMPS CALL WITH PUTIN ON FRIDAY.
Meet the civilians who volunteer to shoot down drones, including a team of judges by day and drone killers by night.
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Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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Kyiv shelling on July 4: Russians damaged Polish consulate | УНН
УНН War ✎ During the shelling of Kyiv on July 4, the building of the consular section of the Polish embassy was damaged.
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Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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The Pentagon Had a Budget Surplus. Guess What Trump Decided to Do With It.
This could have been good news, if Trump had followed a different path.
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Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The Pentagon had a budget surplus. Guess what Trump decided to do with it.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Just awful: A 75-year-old man just died in ICE custody, ICE has revealed in a notice to Congress. But here's the rub: This man, a Cuban national, was first paroled into the US in 1966—nearly 60 years ago! They were set to deport him anyway. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/1974...
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Why Did a 75-Year-Old Man in Poor Health Just Die in ICE Custody?
Isidro Perez came to the United States from Cuba nearly 60 years ago. This is who Stephen Miller is going after now?
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
#Ukraine has agreed to an unconditional ceasefire months ago. Ukraine wants peace. Russia continues attacking Ukraine. President Trump can force Russia to stop. Peace through force against the aggressor.
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Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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I”m in Kyiv - went to a camouflage project today - the more the drones drop at the night - the more volunteers show up to make the camoflouge - more than 3K pieces since the beginning of the war. I am...
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Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Really?
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Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
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Syrian security forces detain cousin of toppled leader Assad
Syria's security forces have detained Wassim al-Assad, a cousin of toppled leader Bashar al-Assad, state news agency SANA said on Saturday.
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Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
These conflicts are intertwined. open.substack.com/pub/debamos/...
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WATCHING TRUMPS CHOICE FOR IRAN INTERVENTION FROM UKRAINE.
Ukrainians have lived with a forever war - and lately Russia unleashed one of the heaviest attacks since the 2022 invasion..
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Deb Amos @debamos.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans
Trump order allows VA staff to decline providing healthcare to patients based on political affiliation or marital status
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