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End of the World
We present a special series of shows exploring how society, the world, even the universe might meet its end. It could be tomorrow, or it could come in an unfathomably long time from now. Listen to different perspectives on this eternal question, including scientists, environmentalists and theologians.
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December 21st, 2012: A Date that Might Live in Infamy  
Larry Joseph — Author of Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation into Civilization's End; Chairman of a plasma physics company in New Mexico.
Grasping the Scope of U.S. Weapons Proliferation  
Ivan Oelrich, Director of the Strategic Security Project at the Federation of American Scientists.
Collective Action to Prevent the Apocalypse  
Eugene Jarecki— Director of Why We Fight, a documentary about the United States since World War II and the growth of the "Military Industrial Complex". Author of the forthcoming book The American Way of War and How It Lost Its Way.
Apocalypse Now, Please  
Max Blumenthal — Journalist, Blogger, Nation Institute Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow; Producer of the online video Rapture Ready: The Unauthorized Christians United for Israel Tour
The Messiah of Orthodox Judaism  
Norton Mezvinsky — Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University; Co-Author with Israel Shahak, Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel
The Mehdi in the US Media  
Kaveh Afrasiabi  — Author After Khomeini: New Directions in Iran's Foreign Policy and Iran's Nuclear Program: Debating Facts versus Fiction; Former Professor at Tehran University; Contributor to the Asia Times, where his latest article is New steps in the war dance over Iran.

Related Links:
Study: US preparing 'massive' military attack against Iran
US Steps Closer to War with Iran
Eastern Orthodox Christian Perspective on the “End Times”  
Archbishop Lazar Puhalo — Retired Hierarch of the Orthodox Church in America; Author of the books The Soul, the Body and Death and The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Orthodox Christianity and Modern Physics, published by Synaxis Press; Abbott of New-Ostrog Monastery in British Columbia, Canada.
Bible Prophecy and the End of the World  
Lester Wright, Author of Read it and Run: The Astonishing Visions of Habakkuk and Daniel
Antichrist’s Role in the End of the World  
“Joel Richardson” Author of Antichrist: Islam’s Long Awaited Messiah
The World Without Humans  
Alan Weisman — Author of The World Without Us; Senior Editor and Producer for Homelands Productions
Better Infertility Through Chemistry  
Dr. Theo Colburn — Founder & President of The Endocrine Disruption Network (TEDX); Co-Author of Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival?— A Scientific Detective Story
America’s Apocalypse  
Robert Jay Lifton — Psychiatrist and Author, Superpower Syndrome: America’s Apocalyptic Confrontation with the World and Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism
The Science of Apocalypse  
Paul Halpern — Professor of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Science in Philadelphia; Author of Countdown to Apocalypse, a Scientific Investigation into the End of the World
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