NBA star Kyrie Irving refuses to apologize after circulating a video accusing Jews of being behind the transatlantic slave trade, JTA reports. – I’m not alone, I have a whole army around me, says Irving. After rapper Kanye West’s rant about Jews, more famous black people in the US have expressed themselves in ways that the media described as anti-Semitic. West’s criticism is,... 

On any given day, there are at least 40 million nonwhite slaves around the world—the vast majority enslaved by other nonwhites, a new report by the United Nations’s International Labor Organization (ILO), and the Walk Free Foundation, an international NGO working to end modern slavery, has found. The largest number of offenders and victims are concentrated in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific—and... 

Not long after the White House invited Thailand to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the AP reported the country was relying on slave labor to ship shrimp to the U.S. And it’s unlikely Thailand’s billion-dollar slave industry would prevent it from joining the TPP considering that Obama previously removed an anti-slavery provision from the TPP and also allowed Vietnam to join the partnership...