Barbarism then and now - visiting the Torture Museum

Every now and then, it's worth taking a stroll down memory lane. In 2008, TomDispatch regular Karen J. Greenberg, now the director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, took just such a stroll -- and found herself in a torture museum in Prague. The piece she wrote on "torture lite" in medieval Europe and medieval twenty-first century America is, in my opinion, a little TD classic. It's also a grim reminder that Americans didn't need a Senate torture report (along with the CIA's efforts to make sure it would never appear) to grasp just...

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Unusual cold snap brings early snow in New South Wales

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