I didn't know that Israel, Saudi Arabia, and their pet army based out of D.C. counted as "the world"

And well, why not add our military to Kuwait? We can help keep the Filipino and Indonesian slaves from trying anything that might disrupt the flow of that sweet, sweet velvety crude, sort of like we did in Bahrain.

at least the press in this country.

Indian, Filipino and other Asian nationals are brought by the tens of thousands to the oil rich nations of the Gulf. They serve their masters often in squalid and in near slave-like conditions. They often have to surrender their passports when they arrive. They are usually allowed to repatriate some of their earnings but they are always kept on a very short financial tether lest they get uppity and want to get away.

It is modern-day slavery and we condone it directly and indirectly by the way we deal with these nations. If we weren't beholden to them for their oil we could actually take principled stands on human rights abuses such as these. But as long as we are addicted to their oil we will turn a blind eye and let them continue to whip and abuse these Asian workers.

I don't know if it's just due to the piss-poor education about our own nation's period with chattel slavery, but many Americans will not believe a slave is a slave if they're getting paid. Any amount is enough to move a person from "slave" to "low wage earner" in the perceptions of many Americans. it's a dangerous and poisonous mentality that allows us to excuse slavery the world over, even while dissolving the truth of our own history - we've already erased that the "sharecropping" system was just slavery in a new shape, and there's constant efforts to claim that chattel slavery was not slavery because "their masters fed them."

America's take on slavery is a slender scab over a festering stab wound.

Scootaloo. How can we open Americans eyes to the fact that slavery still exists not only in the world but right here in the US? Your post is helping to educate folks here at DU and for that I say, "Thank you."