In today's society, our daily lives are surrounded by advertising, television, the Internet, print media, and many publications. These are some of the many forms of what is called propaganda. It is “a form of communication that aims to influence a community's attitude toward some cause or position so as to benefit themselves” (Wikipedia online). Here I'm not talking about promotions from supermarkets like Wal-Mart or Costco to convince us to buy their products. Instead, I'm talking about how propaganda is used by the U.S. government to dominate public views in times of war or to alter public perceptions of political or nonpolitical issues. Now, let's look at some historical events where our government uses propaganda in those situations. Beginning with the Philippine War, slogans such as “progress of freedom,” “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 Filipinos “for control of the Philippine Islands” (Brewer 14). The intent of the war was for the United States to believe the islands were strategic locations for “the markets and natural resources of Asia” (Brewer 14). However, the truth cannot be revealed to the public and the government needs public support for the war. And so, the McKinley administration paints an entirely different picture of “American expansion into the Pacific as a continuation of Manifest Destiny, comparing Filipinos to Native Americans, calling them savage warriors or 'little brown brothers' (Brewer 15). Then, when World War I broke out, President Woodrow Wilson's administration established the “Creel Commission” to manipulate the so-called “extremely pacifist population” to wage war against Germany (Chomsky 11). And at the end of the war, the same propaganda strategy is used to “destroy unions and eliminate dangerous problems such 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 strongly supported and pushed by the media and businesses for their own interests. Furthermore, there is that certain group of people in society who considered themselves “smarter members of the community” or “specialized class of responsible men” who believed that only they could understand the common interests of people (Chomsky 12, 15).