Some guidelines to steer Counting Stars in the right direction this new year

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”. J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Lord of the Rings”.

Counting Stars turns 21 years with the same freedom and some changes in sight
Does an independent blog like Counting Stars still make sense today?

We’re in the final hours of 2025 and a new year is already upon us. After 21 years, this blog is quite predictable (and I’m proud of it), so I don’t think you’ll find any surprises in my purposes for the next 12 months:

Continue defending the right to life and human dignity, especially in the face of crimes such as abortion and euthanasia, whose social acceptance is a disgrace to our time. This defense will remain uncompromising and unequivocal.
Continue defending the unity of Spain, democracy and the rule of law, seriously threatened by the most sectarian, authoritarian and corrupt government in our democratic history.
Continue defending freedom against those who attack it, especially freedom of education, religious freedom, ideological freedom, linguistic freedom, freedom of information, freedom of expression and economic freedom in the face of the constant attacks and threats they suffer.
Continue to denounce Christianophobia and anti-Semitism, two scourges that have caused serious massacres in the last century and that are resurfacing with particular force today, also in the West.
Continue to denounce the abuses of power by rulers, whatever their ideology or party, at the national and international level, and continue to defend a limited State that puts effective brakes on those abuses.
Continue to denounce totalitarianism, both nazism and communism, anti-democratic and criminal movements that have murdered millions of people, and also Islamic extremism, which today is one of the greatest threats to Western civilization.
Continue defending Christian values, Western civilization and liberal-conservatism and to continue supporting political and social initiatives that coincide in that defense, from the strictest independence of Counting Stars.
Continue defending the cause of Ukraine against the large-scale Russian invasion that began in 2022, a just cause that demands the liberation of all territories invaded and occupied by Vladimir Putin’s dictatorship, which has become a serious threat to peace in Europe.
Continue defending the State of Israel, the only real democracy in the Middle East, which has been constantly fighting for its survival since its founding, and which now also suffers a campaign of hatred and slander after suffering in 2023 the biggest anti-Semitic massacre since the Holocaust.
Continue defending and advocating for a Nation I admire, Poland, a country that for the last century has been a reference point for those of us who reject totalitarianism and for those of us who defend the Christian roots of Europe, and which now faces a great threat because of Russian imperialism.

I wish you all that 2026 makes your best wishes come true and that we can still be reading each other in a year’s time.

Happy 2026!