English

Noun

globaloney ‎(uncountable)

1. (chiefly US) Silly, nonsensical or absurd ideas or talk on global issues.
   • 1943, Clare Boothe Luce, Congressional Record, volume 89, page 761:

     But much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still “globaloney”.

   • 1950, Joseph S. Davis, Population and Resources: Discussion of Papers by Frank W. Notestein and P. V. Cardon, Journal of the American Statistical Association, volume 45, issue 251, page 346:

     We must beware of any form of ‘globaloney’.

   • 1988, Fraser J. Harbutt, The Iron Curtain: Churchill, America and the Origins of the Cold War (Oxford University Press), page 142:

     –an outlook characterised by one senior State Department official as “messianic globaloney”

   • 1995, William L. Oneill, A Democracy at War: America's Fight at Home and Abroad in World War II (Harvard University Press), page 197:

     Wendell Willkie's One World (1942), the epitome of “globaloney”, had sold a four million copies.

   • 2006, Michael Veseth, Globaloney: Unraveling The Myths Of Globalization (Rowman & Littlefield), page 19:

     The cheap labor threat is a common element of globaloney arguments today.

   • 2007, Patrick Buchanan, Jamestown as It Never Was, RealClearPolitics:

     Our forefathers, who created this country, rejected, totus porcus, the nonsense we spout today about egalitarianism and globaloney.