Military Industrial Congressional Complex
Flows of money and patronage within a closed-loop,
stable system impervious to outside forces:

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Derived from the work of Chuck Spinney, Chet Richards, Seymour Melman, and others.


  (This is only a basic outline.  There are detailed diagrams within each of these patronage systems: the military, industry, congress and elections, schools, universities, churches, and the media.   For example, diagrams of the political economy of corporate and government media have more elements than the MICC above.)

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Read William Hartung's 1999 papers: http://www.fpif.org/papers/micr/introduction.html