Open Democracy ("free thinking for the world") is an online magazine on global politics and culture published out of London - both a great resource and a brave experiment that aims to "publish clarifying debates which help people make up their own minds."

What makes the site one of my favourite reads is that the open democracy team works hard at bringing a really diverse range of voices together, ranging from Arab intellectuals to UN officials, with articles on everything from the African space programme to the future of Islam in Europe all the way to riots in Gujarat, India.

As an example of their work check out Ariel Sharon and the Geometry of Occupation... by the architect Eyal Weizman, "which "examines the process by which, after the expansion of Israel’s borders following the 1967 war, these borders have been dissolved and transformed: from being fixed fortified lines, laid out at the edges of the occupied territories, to fragmented and scattered inner frontiers across both horizontal and vertical dimensions."

Give these people money.