'Vaccinated my child without my consent': Rapper M.I.A. unloads on feds as COVID claims crumble

The London-born rapper Mathangi Arulpragasam, stage name M.I.A., isn't afraid to take on powerful American government and corporate interests. 

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire awardee performed in front of the Home Office in London in 2019 to protest the sought extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the U.S. She questioned the cultural dominance of the Black Lives Matter movement in America in 2016.

Before that the NFL tried to extract more than $16 million from M.I.A. for breach of contract: ruining its "reputation for wholesomeness" by flipping the bird during the 2012 Super Bowl halftime show. They settled privately.

But what has put the Sri Lankan Christian convert in the cultural cross hairs is her renewed criticism of the alliance between American public health regulators and pharmaceutical interests, in response to developments that illuminate the thinness of evidence invoked to authorize certain COVID-19 treatments.