In today's society, our daily lives are surrounded by advertisements, television, the Internet, newspapers, and numerous publications. These are some of the many forms of what we call propaganda. It is “a form of communication intended to influence a community's attitude toward a cause or position for its own sake” (Wikipedia Online). Here, I'm not talking about the promotion of certain big stores like Wal-Mart or Costco to persuade us to buy their products. Rather, I am talking about how propaganda is used by the United States government to dominate the public's view in times of war or to change public perception on political or non-political issues. Now let's look at some historical events where our government uses propaganda in these situations. Beginning with the Philippine War, slogans such as "advancing liberty", "Christian benevolence" and "prosperity" were used to "break" the people's "anti-imperial traditions" in order to allow the McKinley administration to legally wage wars against the Philippines. the Filipinos “for control of the Philippine Islands” (Brewer 14). The intent of the war was that the United States viewed the islands as strategic locations for "Asia's markets and natural resources" (Brewer 14). However, the truth cannot be revealed to the public and the government needs public support to fight this war. Thus, the McKinley administration paints an entirely different portrait of “American expansion in the Pacific as a continuation of Manifest Destiny, comparing Filipinos to Native Americans, calling them savage warriors or “little brown brothers” (Brewer 15). Then came World War I, President Woodrow Wilson's administration created the "Creel Commission" to manipulate the so-called "extremely pacifist population" into provoking war against Germany (Chomsky 11). And at the end of the war, the same propaganda strategy is used to “destroy the unions and eliminate such dangerous issues as freedom of the press and freedom of political thought” (Chomsky 12). This was later known as the Red Scare. Although under the leadership of the President, the propaganda used is heavily supported and pushed by the media and corporations for their own benefit. Furthermore, there is a certain group of people in society who view themselves as the "most intelligent members of the community" or as "a specialized class of responsible men" who believe that only they can understand the common interests of the people (Chomsky). 12, 15).