The Empire, Naked. Today I had a choice. I asked myself this: shall I insert a screw drive deep inside my ear, or shall I start reading this new book The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib, edited by Karen Greenberg and Joshua Dratel and published by Cambridge University Press. Unfortunately, I settled on the second choice, and started reading this valuable massive volume of 1249 pages, containing all what you need to know about the US Empire as it really stands, or sits, naked.