globaloney

Meanings

nounglobaloney (uncountable)

USuncountableAbsurd or nonsensical ideas or talk on global issues.
We must beware of any form of ‘globaloney’.
1950, Joseph S. Davis, “Population and Resources: Discussion of Papers by Frank W. Notestein and P. V. Cardon”, in Journal of the American Statistical Association, volume 45, number 251, page 346
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But much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still “globaloney”.
1943, Clare Boothe Luce, Congressional Record, volume 89, page 761
–an outlook characterised by one senior State Department official as “messianic globaloney”
1988, Fraser J. Harbutt, The Iron Curtain: Churchill, America and the Origins of the Cold War, Oxford University Press, page 142
Stop supporting bums abroad. Stop all foreign aid, which is aid to banksters and their bonds and their export industries. Stop gloabaloney^([sic]), and let's solve our problems at home.
1992 January, Murray Rothbard, “Right-Wing Populism: A Strategy for the Paleo Movement”, in Rothbard-Rockwell Report, page 9
Wendell Willkie's One World (1942), the epitome of “globaloney”, had sold a four million copies.
1995, William L. Oneill, A Democracy at War: America's Fight at Home and Abroad in World War II, Harvard University Press, page 197
The cheap labor threat is a common element of globaloney arguments today.
2006, Michael Veseth, Globaloney: Unraveling The Myths Of Globalization, Rowman & Littlefield, page 19

Origin

Blend of global + baloney. Coined by American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist Clare Boothe Luce in 1943 to disparage the recommendation of then-Vice President Henry Agard Wallace that airlines of the world be given free access to US airports.

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