{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/641338125bde790011089c5b/6955a2805f9b0b61aada69f6?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Swimming song - Staying afloat against impossible odds ","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/641338125bde790011089c5b/1767219377363-92db1a77-7a97-4894-9d93-7036e5922eea.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p><em>\"One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.\"</em>&nbsp;On October 25 2023, novelist Omar El Akkad posted this message on X/Twitter</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>On Free State today Omar El Akkad joins Joe and Dionto talk about how the world looked away. His magisterial new book&nbsp;<strong>One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This</strong>&nbsp;details the complicity of the west.&nbsp;</p><p>Gaza is enduring a famine and Israel maintains a blockade where children’s hunger is a weapon of war and an instrument of monumental cruelty. Omar’s voice is a compelling and necessary counterpoint.</p><p><br></p><p>This episode originally aired on May 6th 2025</p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Gold Hat Productions"}