In the following interview Paul Craig Roberts, former assistant secretary of treasury under President Ronald Reagan, says that the neocons in Washington are a dangerous group of people. They can drag America and the world into war and chaos, the likes of which are manifest in Syria. Pravda Report YouTube Channel: What is your forecast for the situation in Syria? Do you think that the World War III can still start because of the clash of interests around that country? Paul Craig Roberts: The situation is dangerous, because the neoconservatives in the United States are still intent on overthrowing president Assad of Syria. And the American neoconservatives are in important positions in the Obama administration. They don’t control the entire government and they are falling into some suspicion, some loss of influence. We saw that during [US secretary of state John] Kerry’s visit to Moscow, during which Kerry made concessions to the Russian side. This is an indication of the neoconservatives’ losing some of their control. But despite the neoconservatives’ losing some of their ground, they are still there and they are closely allied to the shadowy part of the American government, which is capable of producing false flag events. These [...]