NOVEMBER 2024 | NO 2411

INTERNATIONAL

TECHNOLOGY

Nord Stream attack: what’s the truth?

Speculation on the blowing up of the pipelines doesn't reveal where the trail leads | FABIAN SCHEIDLER ▶ p12

Looking inside AI’s black box AI demands political choices as well as technical challenges | V CHAIX, A LEHUGER & Z SAPEY-TRIOMPHE ▶ p14

UNITED STATES

US ELECTION

Consultancy threat to national security

Vast profits from advising foreign governments led to charges of being ‘foreign agents’ | L CALLONNEC ▶ p16

Return of the worker to US political scene

Has Bidenomics done enough to restore working-class faith in the Democrats? | RICK FANTASIA ▶ p10

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Widening storm in the Middle East

Netanyahu’s bloody onward march | GILBERT ACHCAR ▶ p2 The Gulf, and Egypt, watch and wait | AKRAM BELKAÏD ▶ p4 What future remains for Palestine? | THOMAS VESCOVI ▶ p5 Dark days for Lebanon | EMMANUEL HADDAD ▶ p6 After Nasrallah: the road to regional war | ADAM S H AT Z ▶ p7